1,400 search results for “reading” in the Student website
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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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…
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Experts on the war in Ukraine, two years later: ‘Europe learned a lot from the war, help each other and don’t give up’
The one-day symposium ‘War in Europe: the impact of Russian aggression in Ukraine two years on’ on 23 February 2024
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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…
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’Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Gedichten en gedachten: creatief Honours-vak A Taste of Leadership smaakt naar meer
What do you derive your self-esteem from? Not a question you would quickly expect in a course on leadership. Lecturer Michel Don Michaloliákos opted for a unique approach to 'A Taste of Leadership', an Honours course with introspection as its core theme.
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
- Deep Learning for Beginners Workshop Series 2024
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Conference, Workshop
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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What Constitutes Being Muslim in Indonesia: Islamic Expressions, Politics of Contestation and Accommodation in Bima
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Public installation & meme battle on anti-Asian racism
Meme battle
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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Predrinks Oort lecture
Alumni event
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
- Leiden Elective Academic Periodical - Special Issue #2 - Information Session
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Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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Introduction Day Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Study information
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Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Access to Justice in Today’s Libya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Lecture
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
Lecture
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In conversation with Kimsooja
Expert meeting
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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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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EUniWell Open lectures series | War, Peace and Overcoming Helplessness: The Role of Universities
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Conference, ESOF Conference
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Finding an internship as a first-generation student
Thematic meeting Leiden Empowerment Fund
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Daily Dutch (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: Changing Service Professionals' Attitudes to Volunteers
Lecture
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Meet the Employer Campus Den Haag
Course
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
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Consent panel discussion - Join the conversation
Debate
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With kind regards: September 2022
Lecture
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture