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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia
Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, circular economy, biodiversity and medicine. They also work on projects to improve legal education and make Dutch sources and Indonesian heritage accessible…
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Social Science Matters: scientist about voting behaviour
How do people vote? How rational are voting choices? How much do external factor weigh in? In this article social scientis provide some background.
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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Beatrice de Graaf to deliver the 53rd Huizinga Lecture
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, historian and terrorism expert Beatrice de Graaf will deliver the 53rd Huizinga Lecture at the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden. Under the title "We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis", De Graaf will explore how history is used during crises to give meaning to the times.…
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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Go for a Minor and Summer School in Rome
Education
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continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
- Enjoy free sports during the Open Sports Week from 16 - 22 May!
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Dealing with Decoupling from China - Business Strategies in a Changing World
EA & SSEA Night Talk
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From Baghdād to Baghpūr: Global Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
- Geopolitics of predatory academia: from predatory journals to mislocated centers of scholarly communication
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LUCIR Seminar: Refugees and asylum seekers in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
- I wouldn't start from here making the case for Outcome Trajectory Evaluation
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EA & SSEA Night Talk 2 – Technology in East Asia from Manufacturing to Research & Development?
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’
The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…
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Lecture by Maxim Osipov: 'What Makes a Good Story Good? Reflections from behind the Writing Desk'
Lecture, Livestream
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
- Europaeum conference on parliamentary culture (22-24 June 2022)
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Today’s experimental quantum research at Leiden University: from the microscopic to the macroscopic
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Lecture
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EUniWell Open lectures series | War, Peace and Overcoming Helplessness: The Role of Universities
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Building partnerships for mapping of archaeological sites impacted by climate change
In July 2023, Leiden University conducted another phase of its ongoing archaeological collaboration with the Kalinago Territory in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Activities focused on mapping and assessing coastal sites impacted by climate stressors, undertaking knowledge-exchange sessions, and co-creating…
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When images are not worth a thousand words: from cinematic multimodality to enhanced subtitling
Lecture
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From Epistemic Injustice to Epistemic Diversity - Investigations of Open Access Publishing and Research Reproducibility
Seminar
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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Short prison sentences: More recidivism and expensive
Dutch political parties have presented their own 'solutions' to make society 'safer'. How do the party positions compare with scientific research on crime reduction?
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Circular fuel: researchers and technicians work hand in hand on tomorrow’s solutions
From a meaningless block of plastic to an advanced component that contributes to the energy transition. The technicians and scientists of our faculty think it out in detail and make it a reality. This special project shows that they need each other.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland
Lecture
- Leiden2022: Borrow a 'living book' from the Living Library on the national day of Empathy
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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Talk 20 April: Telops and language learning - Experiences and insights from conducting a PhD study
Lecture
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Navigating the Turn to the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands
Panel discussion
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Queer migration: lessons from the past and present, thoughts for the future. A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
Conference, A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From Pixel to Caesar: Using Atlas.ti to discover the past in early digital games
Lecture
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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- The world of the Greek epigram. Studying Inscribed Funerary Poetry from the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East
Conference, Research Seminar
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Jasper's Day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.
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‘In ten years’ time, we’ll ask ourselves how we can make the Netherlands more attractive for migrants’
When politicians claim they can make major differences with their migration policies, they’re raising false expectations. The opportunities for the government to restrict migration are in fact very limited. And what about the little room they do have? Mark Klaassen’s advice is to make use of those opportunities…
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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University
In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are obviously going to celebrate this with our students, staff and friends. Do you have any ideas for this celebration?
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation
Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduce, distort and select. This allows the reader to be guided literally and figuratively. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Museum Volkenkunde jointly…
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inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human from the nonhuman
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
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New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence from Shaoxing Wu Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Design METIS instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope finalised
The design for the METIS instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is final. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has given the green light for production of all parts of the instrument. It is the first ELT instrument, designed and to be built under Dutch leadership, to formally pass the…