1,450 search results for “political agenda sensing” in the Staff website
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Daniel Carter, PhD – ‘There's “money law” and there's “people law” and I've always been more interested in the latter.’
Not everyone benefits from the increased flexibility in the labour market. EU migrant workers engaged at the lower end of the employment spectrum are falling behind. According to Daniel Carter, the legal system is at fault and in his PhD thesis he explains the reasons why.
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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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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’
Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always remained fascinated by her 17th-century series, for which she feels so much love. ‘I kept seeing different, new things.’
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The new self-evaluation of the Institute of Psychology: ‘The quality of the academic culture is more important’
Better supervision of PhD candidates, clear guidelines on career paths and an MRI scanner that can be accessed by all researchers: these are the recommendations from the new self-evaluation. Colleagues say: ‘This forces us as an institute to formulate our mission and vision more precisely.’
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this edition…
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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2023 Conference on International Cyber Security: War and Peace. Conflict, Behaviour and Diplomacy in Cyberspace
Conference
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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In the Making #4: Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Lecture, Conversation
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ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
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In the Making #1: Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes
Lecture, Conversation
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What a glow in the dark squid tells us about the human gut microbiome
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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In the Making #3: Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR), Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Lecture, Conversation
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Participate and create in the ELS Atelier
Course
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In the Making #5: Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian, Experiencing Text and Textile, with Guest Speaker Suzanne Knip-Mooij
Lecture, Conversation
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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ISGA received highly positive external research evaluation
In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…
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Leiden Research Support Conference 2023
Conference
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Academia in Motion Festival
Festival
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Hybrid Symposium 'Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe’
Conference
- Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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Project presentations of 3 grand winning research projects within Social Citizenship & Migration
Conference, Presentation
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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Symposium on Ukraine in images, words and sounds
Conference
- Putting the open engagement of societal actors into practice
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ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
Course
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Work Stress Week 2023
Workshops
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2022 Conference on International Cyber Security: Navigating Narratives in Cyberspace
Conference
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
- ‘Theatres of Law: Policing, Prosecution, and Performance from Plato to YouTube’ – Workshop with Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University) and
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Performative Photography (mix of photography & art performance)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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PhD Candidates: Get more success with less stress
Personal development, Working effectively
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
- Best practices
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In the Making #6: Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neuman, Emma Williams, Art Without Soul?
Lecture, Conversation
- Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2023
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
- Healthy University Week 2023
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Activities
On this page you will find an overview of the activities organised by the Leiden Research Support Network.