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- Kick-off brainstorm: new master’s programme in Environmental Humanities
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Artificial ''Intelligence'' versus Human Dignity: Issues of Fairness and Power in Algorithmic Decisions
Lecture
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eLaw Summer School: 'Regulating AI and data in an age of EU digital reforms', 24-28 June, Leiden (Registration now open!)
Course, Summer School
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop Series
- Aleydis Nissen - ‘The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights’
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay
In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a period of many years. Helen Duffy, Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and also Zubaydah’s lawyer, recently booked a major victory…
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Ruth van Vugt: different ways of getting to a job as a clinical psychologist
Most students of Psychology want to work in mental healthcare (GGZ). This makes the master’s specialisation in Clinical Psychology a logical choice. It was an option for alumna Ruth van Vugt for a long time, but she decided to explore further and has since successfully completed the Health and Medical…
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contract in western welfare states in an era of climate change, digitalization and ageing
Seminar
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Climate justice through the courts: Will courts prevent (and redress) human rights harm from climate change?
Lecture
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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session faculty office: Safe research and academic freedom within Humanities
Debate
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Nuna Nalluituq / The Land Remembers
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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What a glow in the dark squid tells us about the human gut microbiome
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Graduation ceremony: European and International Human Rights Law (Advanced LL.M.)
Graduation ceremony
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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Environmental Humanities LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law wins Erasmus+ grant
Dr Robert Heinsch and his team of IHL Clinic researchers at the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law have won a prestigious Erasmus+ grant for cooperation partnerships in higher education in cooperation with the IHL Clinics at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and Roma Tre University…
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Leiden Law School and the Mexican Supreme Court strengthen collaboration
Leiden Law School and the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Mexican Supreme Court (CEC-SCJN) have signed a memorandum of understanding, to carry out joint activities in the field of constitutional law and children's rights.
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culture medium based approach to optimize the stratum corneum barrier of human skin equivalents
PhD defence
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Peter Rodrigues ‘The boundaries for discrimination have shifted’
The judicial authorities are looking into the possibilities for prosecution for the slogans that were projected on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on New Year’s Eve. Not an easy task, according to legal experts. When do we consider something to be ‘discrimination’?
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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Church and Politics, Humanity and Resistance: The Case of the Bethel Church Asylum in The Hague
Lecture
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’
What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has been awarded an NWO grant to study the relationship in more depth.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp joins Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme: ‘Archaeologists can provide the time-depth perspective’
With the retirement of Wil Roebroeks, Gerrit Dusseldorp will take his place as the archaeological representative in the Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme as an Associate Professor. An expert on the behaviour of early human hunter-gatherers, he will look at the interaction between humans and…
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Book presentation 'Phanta Rhei: recht en duurzaamheid'
On 15 June 2023, the book presentation for the ‘Panta Rhei: recht en duurzaamheid’ (Panta Rhei: law and sustainability) was held at the Oude Sterrenwacht in Leiden. The book provides an overview of research in the field of sustainability conducted at Leiden Law School and was compiled by Yvonne Erkens,…
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on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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The Teaching Fair: from downtime to teaching about research methods
One more week, then the Teaching Fair will start. For a whole afternoon, all the Faculty of Humanities teaching staff will be able to gain inspiration from their colleagues. Three participants speak about what we can expect.
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Corry Donner on her retirement: 'I’ll definitely miss the intellectual stimulation, but what I want most now is to get out of my head.'
As Board Secretary, Corry Donner aims to be a ‘spider in the web’; someone who keeps a watchful eye on and brings together all the different perspectives of the institute’s board. Now she's left her carefully woven web at the university and transfer her tasks to her successor. Last September, we talked…
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
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Singing parrots wanted: is our musicality unique?
Is our musicality unique? That’s what the Bird Singalong project aims to find out. And for that, they need the help of feathered friends from all around the world. ‘By researching how parrots learn songs, we also learn more about the origin of our own musicality.’ Do you have a parrot that can sing…
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A conversation with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Lecture
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023.
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New commission investigates Russia's crimes of aggression against Ukraine
Can Russia be prosecuted for war crimes against Ukraine? The International Criminal Court does not have this jurisdiction. To fill this void in jurisdiction, a new commission has been created: an International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression, the ICPA.
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Symposium on technology and privacy should offer new insights
Video conferencing from your sitting room and algorithms on social media that know your interests: new technology is an increasingly integral part of our lives. At the same time there is a growing call to protect our privacy, and this is causing friction, at the University too. In part because of the…
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selective cognition among Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens)
PhD defence
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‘The ancient Egyptians were concerned with more than just death’
When we think about ancient Egypt, the first things that come to mind are usually mummies and sarcophagi. According to researcher and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden curator Lara Weiss, that impression is unjustified. She made an audio tour for the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden that focuses on living Egyptians…
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…
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inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human from the nonhuman
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the Increasing Ubiquity of Environmental Questions'
Conference
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga & Louk van Doorn win the DT4REGIONS Ideathon on AI Potential for Preventive Healthcare
eLaw - Center of Law and Digital technologies from Leiden Law School, and the Vascular Surgery Department at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, join forces to explore the use of AI for diabetes and secondary prevention of diabetic foot problems and won a prize for it.
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman
Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with the royal honour by Mayor Elbert Roest in the town hall in Bloemendaal.
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SAILS Lunch Seminar
Lecture, seminar