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From Leiden student to Australian Ambassador to the Holy See
Chiara Porro from Australia studied International Relations and Diplomacy at Leiden University and has been Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See since August. How did she end up at the Vatican and what is it like? ‘The Pope told me his door was always open!’
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‘A good relationship is a teacher's best asset'
During the opening of the academic year, true to tradition the LUC Teaching Prize will be awarded to the best lecture at the University. Get to know the nominees. This week: Christine Espin.
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Green Office chasing green ideas
‘A university is a slow-moving institution, which is in many ways a good thing,' commented student Josephine Rook at the opening of the Leiden University Green Office on 27 September in the Hortus botanicus. ‘Sustainability is not about following the latest trends, but about making structural improv…
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From a bold e-mail to a dream internship: take the initiative!
Imagine: you walk into a museum, see something that catches your eye and before you know it, you have an internship. This is what happened to history student Davey Verhoeven, who went on to work on the exhibition about the unique Japanese folding screen by Kawahara Keiga (approx. 1786 – approx. 1860)…
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Sarah Michiel: ‘I’m looking forward to being back in the office’
Sarah Michiel is the Institute Manager of NIMAR and has been living in Morocco since 2012. Due to the coronavirus, she has been working in Belgium since 20 March, where she grew up. The NIMAR office in Rabat is currently empty and all visits and conferences have been cancelled. Sarah is trying to run…
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’
Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’
How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly appointed distinguished professor Arnold Tukker explained.
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‘Immigration doesn’t threaten welfare states’
It is often thought that immigration threatens the solidarity on which redistribution relies. But looking at the post-war period, PhD candidate Emily Anne Wolff finds that this is not the case.
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Blog Post | The storming of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador: Inviolability and Political Asylum
On Friday, April 5, the Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas Espinel.
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How a healing field trip inspired Alexia to take the stage at TEDxLeidenUniversity
One day you feel inspired by a field trip, the next you are a speaker at TEDxLeidenUniversity. It happened to International Relations student Alexia. How did she end up on stage – and why did she want to? Alexia shares her story with us. ‘I was given hope, and I wanted to share it with others.’
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OSCoffee: Better coding for reproducible research
Lecture
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The Future of Work: Opportunities and challenges of digitalization, the platform economy and flexibilization of European labour markets
Conference
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Global Challenges: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Debate, Studium Generale
- Maintenance network Leiden University
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Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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4. Dialectometry Beyond Classification
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
- Maintenance Network Leiden University
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Language production: expertise and modalities
Lecture, LACG Meetings
- Maintenance Leiden University network
- Digital Footprint Workshop
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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
- More-than-planet exhibition finissage
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Families in Transit: Child-bearing, Child-rearing and Inheritance during Displacement
Conference
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Discovering the physics of banks, the economy and financial crisis
Physicist Diego Garlaschelli co-authored an extensive review in the journal Nature Reviews Physics. Surprisingly, the subject wasn't physics at all, but the networks of banks and other financial institutions, and the way their structure relates to financial crises.
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Carel Stolker: ‘Young researchers, you’re not alone’
Young researchers have been particularly affected by the coronavirus measures. They’re concerned about whether they’ll get their PhD or postdoc project finished on time, now their research has been at a standstill for months. What effect will such a delay have at the start of their academic career?…
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Jasper Knoester's 2023 New Year's Speech
During the New Year's reception on 10 January 2023, Dean Jasper Knoester adressed the faculty in his New Year's speech. He looked back on the past year, but also looked forward at the developments within the faculty.
- Meeting on Ukraine for students
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LCN2 Seminar: Graph homotopy, non-backtracking matrix, and X-centrality
Lecture
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The History of the Arabic Script: New Discoveries and Developments
Lecture, Workshop
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
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Brave New World 2023
Conference
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Special Guest Lecture: Colonialism, Citizenship and the challenges for Decolonial work in the Netherlands
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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SAILS x CAIRELab Symposium: Demystifying AI in Healthcare
Lecture
- Maintenance network Leiden University
- Workshop on Eco-Anxiety
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Tom Heyman
Lecture
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Summer Academy for Historical Acting
Course, Summer School
- Lecture: Climate Change & Health
- GTGC Lunch Seminar: Governing the European Textile Waste Export
- European Vision for AI
- LUGO Discussion: Sustainability in Leiden University
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Single Linear Neuron Models and Training Loop Workshop
Workshop Series