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Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields…
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Blog Post | Diplomatic Transparency and the Emergence of Post-Reality
Author: Ilan Manor
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured fashion with a ceremony in the Pieterskerk, but broke with tradition by sending professors out to primary schools.
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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The Significance of Style
From September 20 to 23, an international Summer School was hosted by the Museums, Collections & Society research programme. PhD candidate in Archaeology Nicky Schreuder attended the Summer School.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Finessage for ‘Touching: An Exhibition of Material Research Samples and Recipes’
Arts and culture
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Playing with words
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
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Dutch Universities Alumni Event - Jakarta 27 Sept 2023
Alumni event
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Creative writing: Science Fiction (Dutch and English spoken)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Playing with your devils: a presentation course
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Recognition and Reward: What Will It Bring Us?
Lecture
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Book launch ‘The promise of music’
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Urban sketching
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- POSTPONED: Panel Discussion: Neutrality in a Changing World
- Academic Professional Development
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The Journey from Monolingual to Multilingual Language Policy in Ethiopia: Politics, challenges and opportunities
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
- BA Spring Middle East Studies programme
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LTF Lecture with Michael Kremer
Lecture
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Indonesia's Choice - Discussing the upcoming elections
Debate
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Talk on Impersonal Idealism: A Buddhist-Platonist Alternative
Lecture
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LUCIP Lecture "Queer Desires and Buddhist Asceticism: Negotiating Dharma and Diverse Embodiments"
Lecture
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Challenging Native Speakerism in Language Ideologies: Insights on German from the perspective of French speakers
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Casting Call: The Αngry, The Fool, The Healer/Caretaker, The Ghost, The Innocent, The One Whose Words Penetrate Brains, The Puppeteer, The…
Exhibition
- Anthropology in The Netherlands
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Consortia awarded grant for research into pressing issues
Various consortia in which Leiden University is represented are beginning interdisciplinary research, which will bring scientific and societal breakthroughs within reach. Knowledge institutions, government and private parties are working closely together on the projects.
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing
In 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, British and Germans. But when the Nazis showed their true colours, Rector Magnificus decided to intervene...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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LCCP Working Seminar: Elements of ecotechnical existence in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)
Lecture
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Institute for Philosophy Opening Academic Year 2022-2023
Lecture
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Legal socialization in law school: two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity’
Lecture
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Family as a language policy regime: power, agency and negotiations at home
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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CPP Colloquium: "Property and Social Equality"
Lecture
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Institute for Philosophy Opening Academic Year 2023-2024
Lecture
- GTGC lunch seminar: remittance, paradigms, and extreme cases
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The Recontextualisation of a Multiethnolect: The Case of Multicultural London English
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
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LCCP Working Seminar with Marita Tatari: The “we” and the human condition. Arendt, Jacobi, Nancy.
Lecture
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Decolonising International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Lecture