2,635 search results for “been” in the Student website
-
Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cleveringa lecture on 24 November historian Gert Oostindie will discuss why colonial domination was not regarded as an issue in Leiden for a long time.
-
Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
-
‘Science is international so our faculty should be too’
‘Our faculty is a very international community. And that is something everybody really benefit from,’ says Yun Tian. As the officer internationalisation, she is the bridge between international students and staff, the faculty and universities abroad. ‘Science goes beyond countries and carries no nationality.…
-
Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
- Psychology: Remaining locations Erasmus+ Exchange 2024-2025
-
Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone
Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and discovered that men, in particular, tend to overestimate the interest of their date. She explains why this may be.
-
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.
-
Academic freedom, protests and a safe campus: where are we and how are we going to move forward?
Leiden University has had a turbulent week. There have been protests inside and outside our buildings that have evoked reactions, and students and staff have felt unsafe. We want with this message to look back at the past week and look forward to the future. What happened and how do we now want to move…
-
International students speaking: 'Dutch directness, helpful people and roze koeken'
The new academic year is on its way and for most students it takes some getting used to being present at the KOG every day. What about international students? We spoke with three internationals who have been studying at Leiden Law School since this academic year.
-
‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
-
Separate and holistic solutions to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation
The response of international organizations to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation needs to be revisited, according to PhD candidate Vassilis Dafnomilis. PhD defence on 3 June 2021.
-
Not wrapping but folding: Bacteria also organise their DNA (but they do it a bit differently)
Some bacteria, it turns out, have proteins much like ours that organise the DNA in their cells. They just do it a bit differently. This is revealed by new research from biochemists at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Biology. The discovery helps us better understand…
-
Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
-
Liever een verre vreemde dan een valse buur
Mensen werken niet alleen liever samen met leden van hun eigen ingroup, ze concurreren er ook liever mee, lieten Leidse onderzoekers in een sociaalpsychologische studie in 51 landen zien. Dit ‘nasty neighbor’- effect was een grote verrassing voor de onderzoekers, totdat ze in studies over dieren doken.…
-
Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
-
EA & SSEA Night Talk 2 – Technology in East Asia from Manufacturing to Research & Development?
Lecture
- Lecture ‘How to prepare your (international) career', by diplomat Jean-Pierre Kempeneers
-
The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (1)
Workshop Series
-
Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
-
CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
-
SAILS Lunch Seminar
Lecture, seminar
-
Maori Day
Festival
-
On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
-
Celebrating Naga Culture: Authenticity, Indigeneity and Modernity
Lecture
-
Ties to the fossil fuel industry
Debate
-
A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
-
Carte Blanche Interdisciplinariteit
Conference, Carte Blanche
-
Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
-
Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
-
Planetary Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Lecture
-
Protecting Cyberspace in the Indo-Pacific through European and Japanese Cyber Diplomatic Initiatives
Lecture
-
Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
- Deep Learning for Beginners Workshop Series 2024
-
Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
-
When Critical Thinking Goes Wrong: Civic Reasoning in a Polarised World
Lecture
-
Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
-
A Paragenealogy of Computational Rationality
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
-
Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
-
Seminar: POPNET Connects with with Naja Hulvej Rod
Lecture
-
CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
-
Workshop Landscape Painting
Arts and leisure, Personal development, Arts and leisure
-
The role of the UN in the conflict in Ukraine
Lecture, Seminar
-
Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
-
Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
-
Cross-border International Crimes: the Reach of the ICC's Jurisdiction
Conference
-
Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
-
Writing Global History
Conference, Research Colloquium
-
LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
-
CEES webinar: Women's political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
Lecture