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- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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Dao is in Weeds 道在稊稗
Lecture
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Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Conference
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Special Guest Lecture: Colonialism, Citizenship and the challenges for Decolonial work in the Netherlands
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
- Celebration highest building point Cluster Zuid
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One-time viewing: early photos of Africa by Alexine Tinne
Inloopavond
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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Asia Academy #05: Sanctioning North-Korea
Lecture
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Opening exhibition Kieran Smith
Arts and culture
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics
PhD defence
- SSEALS - 2024
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…
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Al Qaeda in de Islamitische Maghreb ontrafeld: de brede blik ontbrak
Sergei Boeke has once again proven that there are more roads than one that lead to Rome with his PhD research into al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It is both the core point of his conclusions as well as the leitmotiv for his approach. Boeke’s dissertation is comprised of five academic articles that…
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What Darwin couldn’t see: Expedition to uncover invisible life in Galápagos
An international research team is to search for invisible life in the Galápagos Islands. The diversity of bacteria and other microscopic organisms may not be evident to the naked eye, but it is essential to nature. To the islands' giant daisies, for instance: unique endemic plants that are currently…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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From research in space to director on earth
After ten years and one day, Leiden Observatory has a new director. As of 1 September, Ignas Snellen will set the course for the astronomical institute. In this interview, you will get to know Ignas. Or at least a little. That is why we gave him five dilemmas and asked the people around him who he really…
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Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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The week of….Ayo Adedokun
Education, Organisation
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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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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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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. On December 9th, a symposium around his work will take place at Leiden University Libraries. This will be combined with the launch of Maria Boletsi's book…
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Meet the Societal Advisory Board
The Faculty of Humanities wants to take a stand in the middle of society with its research and education. That’s why last year, in the middle of a pandemic, the Societal Advisory Board was founded. What are the members’ plans?
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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VVIK Lecture: Local Biographies in Jain Literary Production
Lecture, VVIK
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Family, a racialized space
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Piety and devotion. 16th-century murals in the Virabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, India
Lecture, Masterclass IIAS/LIAS
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The Limits of Transformational Authoritarian Constitutions: The Case of Indonesia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Transforming Caste: Circus and Body Politics in Colonial Malabar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Why are we so determined to find Amitābha in Gandhāra?
Lecture
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ENIUGH Roundtable: The Pasts, Presents and Futures of Multilateralism – A View from The Hague
Conference
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Maori Day
Festival
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Sweden in NATO and the changing EU security architecture
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Image - Infrastructure. A visual ethnography of the Port of Suape (Brazil)
Lecture
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Rising Power Divided: China and India in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Book Talk - Liminal Diasporas: Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment
Book Talk
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar