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Rector Stolker: ‘Give chance a chance’
What does Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker think about subjects such as student stress, ‘clean’ transcripts and the onward march of the English language? Law students fired their questions at Stolker during the Leiden version of College Tour on 27 January.
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How students launched the Leiden LGBT movement 50 years ago
Four students founded the Leiden Student Working Group on Homosexuality on the day of the Dies Natalis in 1968. This was to be the start of the LBGT+ movement in Leiden, which celebrated its 50-year anniversary this year. What has been achieved and what is the status of emancipation today?
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Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights
The Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights was established at Leiden University through an endowment given by Dr. Raymond R. Sackler and his wife, Beverly, international philanthropists with a commitment to supporting scientific research. The lectures mark the annual celebration of International…
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Child abuse and professional confidentiality: ‘Focus on proper care, not on remaining silent’
How long should and may a doctor remain silent if he suspects child abuse? A GP who often sees the whole family, or a paediatrician, fills a crucial role when it comes to picking up signals of child abuse. Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm examined how tenable professional confidentiality of medical practitioners…
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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Social Science Matters: Online privacy
In our digital society, the internet seems to offer endless possibilities for expressing yourself, gathering information, and making contact with others. The anonymity of the internet seems to give us the freedom to come and go as we please. But what about our online privacy? Should it be dealt with…
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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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Enough is enough – the medal will be returned
Over a decade ago the then foreign minister Abdullah Gül awarded me the “Medal of High Distinction” of the Republic of Turkey. I received the award, consisting of a diploma and a gigantic gold medal, during a festive ceremony at the Turkish embassy in The Hague. The reason I was deemed worthy of the…
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now?
Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the significance of the case, the specific details of the ruling and what we can expect to happen next.
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Women in International Security Netherlands
Women In International Security (WIIS) is a global organisation dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace and security. As part of her research on women, peace and security, Dr. Vanessa Newby at the Institute for Security and Global…
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Focus Raqqa: reconstruction of a Syrian museum collection
In the civil war in Syria, the country's cultural heritage is also under threat. There have been further acts of vandalism in Palmyra and many of the city's museums have been looted. Leiden archaeologist Olivier Nieuwenhuijse's Focus Raqqa project aims to make a digital inventory of the plundered archaeology…
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Taarique teaches career planning but doesn’t want students to plan their future too strictly: ‘Keep on experimenting’
In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Taarique Debidin thinks making contact with one another is more important than cramming knowledge. ‘I’d get no energy at all from being a formal lecturer.’
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’Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
- Open Science Coffee: Developing tools and practices to promote open and efficient science
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The role of the UN in the conflict in Ukraine
Lecture, Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Forecasting Finlandization: How will Xi’s China seek to revise East Asia’s regional order?
Lecture
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Legitimation and nationalism in official Chinese Television Documentaries
Lecture, China Seminar
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Political Economy of Vaccine Diplomacy: Explaining Varying Strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
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CEES webinar: Women's political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
Lecture
- 1325 twenty years on – the evolution of the WPS agenda after 9/11
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Neither ‘Revisionist’ nor ‘Status Quo’, both Statist and (Neo-)liberal Institutionalist: China’s Comprehensive Participation Approach in International
Lecture, LPEG research seminar
- OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
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EA & SSEA Night Talk 2 – Technology in East Asia from Manufacturing to Research & Development?
Lecture
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Towards the Establishment of a New International Humanitarian Law Compliance Mechanism
PhD defence
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When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery
Lecture
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
- The Gender Agenda in International Justice: A Conversation with Gender Focal Points
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CPP Colloquium 'Design for Democracy: Deliberation and Experimentation'
Lecture
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EUniWell Open lectures series | European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
Lecture, Part of a series
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Project Office IRP
Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Master classes Causal Questions in Public Law by Professor Mila Versteeg
Masterclasses
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Different dimensions of openness in open science practices. The importance of collaboration for societal goals
Seminar
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Public Support for Citizenship Expansion in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Exploring host-immune-microbial interactions during intestinal schistosomiasis
PhD defence
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And then it stopped – the impact of print culture on the perception and growth of Purāṇas
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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SRS seminar series
Seminar series
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GRULAC Conference
Conference
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Victims' Rights at A Crossroads
Conference, Seminar
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Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Intimate Legal Interactions Meeting: Legitimacy as lens to study the governance of global citizenship education
Conversation
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La crémation dans l'Alexandrie grecque et romaine
PhD defence