1,144 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Staff website
- Presentation of Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize
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Award ceremony Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award
Prijsuitreiking
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Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry
PhD defence
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Leiden students advise the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
On Wednesday 18 May, the students of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights presented their work to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with the aim to provide recommendations on how to make its decision more accessible to children.
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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No exams or lectures, but building a radio telescope with empty paint cans
No more lectures and exams for the Radio Astronomy course taught by Michiel Brentjens. The corona crisis is a moment of reflection that has changed his whole way of teaching. Instead of being in front of the class, he lets his students build a radio telescope with paint cans.
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Generating Freedom; Hegel's Conception of Political Order
PhD defence
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Conrad Gessner´s Fish Books (1556-1560)
PhD defence
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
- Meijers Lecture and New Year's Reception 2024
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
PhD defence
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
PhD defence
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Asia Academy #11: South Korea's Chip Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Training
- LACDR Townhall meeting & LACDR New Year's drinks
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Graduation ceremonies Advanced Master's Leiden Law School 2020
Graduation ceremony
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Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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FWN Let's Move: 3 June - 28 June 2024
Festival, Sport
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Symposium in honor of Adamantia Panagopoulou's PhD defence
Conference
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Leiden University Green Office / L.A.S. Terra Movie Night
Arts and culture
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Combatting violence against children: what are the lessons learnt?
In the context of the 2021 Day of General Discussion of the UN Committee on Rights of the Child, this time dedicated to alternative care, Defence for Children in collaboration with Leiden University has contributed with a paper on the 2019 Dutch Inquiry Committee on Historical Child Abuse in Alternative…
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. P.D.S. Dijkstra
Valedictory lecture
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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world
It is becoming increasingly common to collect data from children and young people through digital means. The impact of this so-called ‘dataveillance’ on children, who are monitored from birth via smartphones and Fitbits, is great.
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
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European security in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Debate
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Graduation Ceremony Advanced LLM International Children’s Rights
Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation ceremony bachelor’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?
Festival
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Psychology Connected: Academic Entrepreneurship
Conference
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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.
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
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Graduation ceremony bachelor's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony