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Executive Board column: A look back at the strategic conference
Our annual strategic conference was held this year on 15 and 16 June in Soesterberg, and has now become a tradition at our university.
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Times Higher Education: Leiden best Humanities faculty continental Europe
The Faculty of Humanities has been ranked 17th Arts and humanities faculty in the Times Higher Education world ranking 2015-16. This makes it the top non-Anglo-Saxon institution on the list. The position is 7 places up in comparison with last year's list.
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The BIAS project attends an international co-creation workshop in Venice
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, participated in the Horizon Europe BIAS Project international co-creational workshop geared towards discussing fairness of AI applications in the hiring process and ALTAI requirements.
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Psychology Elevator Pitch: How do we solve social dilemmas?
A clean street, public transportation, or taxes: these are all public goods that keep society running. But how do people decide which public good to invest in, if at all? These are the kind of questions PhD student Laura Hoenig explores.
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. ‘We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.’
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Wanted: Student Ambassador - International Relations and Organisations
Education, Organisation, Human resources
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Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund
For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…
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Document your fieldwork for social media outreach
Research
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The environment: victim and initiator of armed conflict
The Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding is set to take place between 19 and 21 June at the Wijnhaven building in The Hague. During the conference, over 400 participants from across the globe will come together to discuss the relationship between the environment and armed co…
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.
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Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses
A CT scanner to treat eye cancer, energy-efficient software for the future and a test to identify male chick eggs. Three projects by researchers from Leiden University are to receive funding from research funder NWO’s Open Technology programme, to which the business sector also contributes.
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Call for Papers: Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.
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Efficient phosphorus use can prevent cropland expansion
More efficient use of phosphorus fertilisers would make it possible to meet food demand in 2050, without using more of the world’s land for agriculture. This is what environmental scientists José Mogollón and colleagues have discovered by working out various future scenarios for food production and…
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Get coached in conversation techniques!
Human resources
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Leiden University addresses the UN on children’s rights
Leiden University addresses the UN on children’s rights
- Status update from the Faculty Board
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European grants for research on ultrathin membranes and the biological clock in bacteria
Two research groups involving Leiden University have been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on the development of membranes that can clean water and purify medical drugs and research on the biological clock in certain bacteria.
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions
The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously.
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Opinion: The message 'ready for the fight' in the Defence White Paper raises concerns.
The Defence White Paper, titled ‘Strong, smart and together’, is debated in the House of Representatives along with the Defence Budget and raises concerns especially in uncertain times.
- Environmental Humanities: Architecture is Climate
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (2)
Workshop Series
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The X Factor: Open Access, New Journals, and Incumbent Competitors
Seminar
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Grip on Software: Understanding development progress of Scrum sprints and backlogs
PhD defence
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11th International conference on industrial ecology
Conference
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Birth of beautiful brides: Rise and transformation of the female gender roles and responsibilities among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya
Lecture
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation
This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almost €510.000 enables 98 students and staff members to go on exchange.
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (1)
Workshop Series
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Thiosugars: Reactivity, methodology and applications
PhD defence
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From Pixels to Patterns: AI-Driven Image Analysis in Multiple Domains
PhD defence
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Chemical biology studies on retaining exo-β-glucosidases
PhD defence
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Digital Archaeology Group Meeting
Lecture
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LCN2 seminar November 2024
Lecture
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Jeunesse comme ressource des conflits violents
PhD defence
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Bringing Archives to Life: Exploring legacy materials, digital tools, and data utilization
Conference, Workshop
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Second Social Safety Dialogue Session: Power Relations and Dynamics
Open Dialogue Session
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Projects in Pre/Early Modern Japan Studies
Lecture
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Connect & Find: a metadata standard that fits your data
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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The impacts and challenges of water use of electric power production in China
PhD defence
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Peaceful Alternatives to Asymmetric Conflict
PhD defence
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Impact on Russia's war in Ukraine on ecology of Ukraine and Europe
Debate
- Leiden Research Support Network Onboarding & Networking Event
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Professional Development Exchange Hub: what courses are on offer?
Education, Organisation, Research
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Explore the Digital Lab with LUCDH: Open Lab and Demos
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Floris Vermeulen
Lecture