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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?
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Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes
During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined the geographic origin of the animals. And guess what? In many cases they discovered exotic populations of animals that do not naturally belong in The Netherlands.…
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Young researchers looking for partnerships in Indonesia
A number of young researchers recently took part in a knowledge mission to Indonesia, aiming to build a lasting relationship with the country. How did they find the trip, what did they do, and how are they creating new connections with scientists in Indonesia?
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys
Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prepare hard-hitting interviews. We take a look behind the scenes.
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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Lecture by Michael Mazarr on 'Deterring China: Challenges and Opportunities'
Lecture
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Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Lecture
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Karahantepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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An International Rule-Based Order and China in the Global Arena
Lecture
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Getting Done With Snouck
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Treaty-making in Southeast Asia as a Cross-cultural Practice
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Opening party
Festival
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly (see updates below) look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Newsletter Student Support FSW April 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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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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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2023
Career event
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture