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Master student Matteo Consonni wins European Youth Award!
The European Youth Award (EYA) is a leading pan-European competition honoring excellence in the use of internet and mobile applications for social empowerment.
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Leiden University admitted as member European Banking Institute
On 3 May 2016 Leiden University was admitted as Academic Member and Founding Member of the European Banking Institute (EBI).
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Just published: European Banking and Financial Law (Second Edition)
Authors: Matthias Haentjens, Pierre de Gioia Carabellese
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7th European Congress of Medieval Studies (FIDEM), 6-9 September
The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland on 6-9 September 2023. Deadline for registration: 15 July.
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WHO KNOWS theme of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Leiden will be scientific capital of Europe in 2022. The theme of the festivities was announce on 28 October: Who Knows. After all, does anyone have a monopoloy on wisdom these days? Who decides what is true? And does anyone actually know what the future holds?
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Imagining the Americas in Print: Books, Maps, and Encounters in the Atlantic World
Imagining the Americas in Print contains eleven essays, seven of which have been published before and four of which are new.
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Research
Scientific research on Colonialism and Slavery is done from different research programmes and different disciplines.
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Major European subsidy for Health psychologist Andrea Evers
Andrea Evers is the new Professor of the brand-new unit of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. She's getting off to a flying start in Leiden with a consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC). Her ambition? 'To work together with other disciplines; that way we can arrive at new insigh…
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.
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Reconstructive Description of Eighteenth-century Xinka Grammar
This dissertation presents a comprehensive description of Xinka, an indigenous language from southeastern Guatemala. The description is based on a missionary grammar that is titled Arte de la lengua szinca and was written by the priest Manuel Maldonado de Matos around 1773.
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Changes in the cultural landscape and their impacts on heritage management
A study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka
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Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart…
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Patterns of Living in Southern Africa, 1780s to the present
Southern Africa has a rich tradition of social history, one inspired by the tumultuous changes that have regularly convulsed the region from the 1780s onwards. Scholars have always sought to understand what these changes meant for everyday life and emphasised a perspective of marginal groups, how these…
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.
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Negotiating Custom: A History of the Galle Landraad (1740-96)
Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.
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Slavery Memorial Year
During the Slavery Memorial Year, from 1 July 2023 to 1 July 2024, the Kingdom of the Netherlands reflected on its colonial and slavery history.
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Second place in Future Ideas European Master Thesis Competition 2013
LIACS graduate Lieven van Velthoven won yet another award for his Media Technology MSc graduation thesis entitled
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25 September, 2015: Opening Central and East European Studies Center
Friday 25 September, 2015 marks the official launch of Leiden University's Central and East European Studies (CEES) Center.
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Louis Honée winner at European Universities Debating Championship
Louis Honée, a student assistant for the Thorbecke chair and the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, is one of the new European Universities Debating Champions. Together with his team partner, he beat around 150 teams in the English as a Second Language category.
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Conference European Association of Labour Court Judges in Amsterdam
The annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) will be held this year in Amsterdam. From 9 to 11 June Labour Court judges from various European countries will gather at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. Professor G.C. Boot, justice of that court and Professor of Labour…
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The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy
This paper aims to understand the most common underlying problems causing strategic surprise in the context of the European Union.
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on ‘Human rights or fundamental rights norms in EU courts’ at the European University Institute, Florence
On 24-25 April 2017 Vasiliki Kosta, Assistant Professor at the Europa Institute, participated in the workshop “Human rights norms in ‘other’ international courts and tribunals”.
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Wild West Frisia
The role of domestic and wild resource exploitation in Bronze Age subsistence
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The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration
Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around…
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Thomas, The Return of Intergovernmentalism?
Citizens, journalists and scholars notice that foreign policy in, and of, the European Union, is ‘de-Europeanising’. Political scientist Daniel Thomas (Leiden University) offers a theoretical exploration of the likely implications. He expects that it will become more difficult for the EU to achieve…
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Launch of the European Network of Brazilianists – REBRAC
Sara Brandellero, Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies (LUCAS), is a founding member of the newly launched European Network of Brazilianists working in Cultural Analysis/Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural – REBRAC. Network launched at international conference at the University of…
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Biogeochemical Biographies
A multiple isotope approach to human-animal dynamics in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide
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Interview with European Youth Award winner Matteo Consonni
Matteo Consonni, Public Administration graduate at Leiden University won the European Youth Award (EYA) in 2015. In this interview with EYA, he tells what he's been up to since then and discusses entrepreneurship.
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GTGC Lunch Seminar: Governing the European Textile Waste Export
On Monday 4 December 2023, the GTGC Seed Grant project with Glenn Aguilar Hernandez, Elena Bondarouk, Arjan de Koning, Antonella Maiello, and Daniela Vicherat Mattar presented their reseach 'Flaws in the flow. Investigating gaps in the governance of European textile waste export'.
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14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Various GTGC researchers convened panels and presented papers at the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: The Power Politics of Nature, that took place online from 13-17 September 2021.
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The relation between communication and violence in the Guéra and Moyen –Chari regions (Chad) from 1940 to 2010
French title: Communication et violences dans le Guéra et le Moyen-Chari (Tchad) de 1940 à 2010. This research investigates the relationship between the introduction of new means of communication and violence experienced by the local populations in the Moyen-Chari and the Guéra regions in Chad from…
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Maritime History
Maritime History encompasses humankind’s relationships to the seas and oceans of the world.
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Tom Theuns
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Richard Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Koosje van Lessen Kloeke
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bernard Steunenberg
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marc van der Ham
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Tom Bouwman
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Melanie Fink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Armin Cuyvers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nikoleta Yordanova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Kroon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Horst Fischer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Helena Vrabec
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Mos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arjan Louwen
Faculteit Archeologie