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Deans celebrate ten years Honours Academy: ‘We are educating people who can make a difference’
The Honours Academy celebrates its tenth anniversary. How did the institute develop over time, and what are aspirations for the future? We speak with the current Dean and a predecessor who was there at the Academy's founding. A conversation about identity, inspiration, and impact ensues. ‘It is about…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants
Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Poor countries recycle far more of our plastic than we thought. But it's not enough.
Countries that import plastic waste recycle an average of at least 63 percent of it. This is surprising, as we previously believed that the vast majority was incinerated or ended up as litter. This was discovered by PhD candidate Kai Li and his colleagues from the Institute of Environmental Sciences in…
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Personal Professional Skills Lab: a certificate for the development of FSW bachelor students
In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-year elective, faculty programme with certificate for personal-professional development, the programme starts with current first-year students; they are…
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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To do a PhD or not to do a PhD? Speed date about it with alumni!
Career and apply for jobs
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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Career College: Working as a Data Scientist
Career and apply for jobs
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LUCIP Forum with Michael Puett (Harvard)
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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
- Presenting Medieval Research (5 ECTS)
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CPP Colloquium with Peter Niesen: Which ‘all subjected’-principle for animals?
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
- Book Launch Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History
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Franchising Legal Frameworks
PhD defence
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What’s up, Dyonisia & Chaeremon? Prof. Jakub Urbanik on Law-Application in the Roman Egypt and P. Oxy. II 237
Lecture
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Thiosugars: Reactivity, methodology and applications
PhD defence
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
- Join our Information Evening in Leiden historic center (or online)
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Public lecture "Do Smart Devices Make Us Less Smart?"
Lecture
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Book launch As Above So Below 🙃 - Ruchama Noorda
Arts and culture, Book launch
- How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized with LUGO
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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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Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- Join our class as a Student-for-a-Day
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Migration policy of the European Union: what lies ahead?
Lecture, Seminar
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
- Presenting Medieval Research at International Conferences (5 ECTS)
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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CPP Colloquium 'Varieties of competition (and why they matter)'
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Tamas David-Barrett
Lecture
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Opening Exposome-Scan research facility
Conference, Opening
- Presenting Medieval Research (5 ECTS)
- Presenting Medieval Research (5 ECTS)
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Politics of Attention for the Environment: Small Steps and Big Leaps.
Lecture
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A Social History of Elephant Watching and Elephant Keepers in Early Modern China
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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EU Privacy and Data Protection Law applied to AI: Unveiling the Legal Problems for Individuals
PhD defence
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Sune Lehmann
Lecture
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Violence Visible and Invisible: On Political Violence and Forms of Aesthetic Resistance to its Erasure and Distortion. One day symposium
Conference
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Longing to the Gray: Nostalgia, Nationalism and Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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FSW Faculty Lunch on Mental Health at Work
Conference
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Learning to perceive: Psychological and neural processes underlying placebo and nocebo effects on cutaneous sensations
PhD defence
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Book Launch: (A New) Translation of the Nahj al-Balagha
Lecture
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Forces and Symmetries in Cells and Tissues
PhD defence