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Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event 2024
Alumni event, Brussels
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CRG Seminar: The regime of hopes and broken promises of a large-scale land deal in Senegal: “The company promised an elephant but finally gave
Lecture
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Leiden is hosting the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference in 2022. This is the largest multidisciplinary scientific conference in Europe. Its tenth edition will be held in Leiden from 13 to 16 July 2022, in close collaboration with EuroScience in Strasbourg. Read all about the ESOF conference and…
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Kroese-Duijsters Symposium 2023: Reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous, inorganic and biological electro(photo)catalysis
Conference
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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Decolonising International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Dr. Mohsen al Attar is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Scholar at UCL. Dr. al Attar is best known for his writings on Third World Approaches to International Law, a theory that guided his doctoral research and continues to inform his investigations into global political…
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Radical Restorative Justice: Teachers’ Reflections on Conflict, Trauma, and Hope in Chicagoland Schools
VVI Research Talk 2023-2024
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CANCELLED: Book Presentation and Discussion: Central Asia 300-850 Roads and Kingdoms
Lecture
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POSTPONED: Civic and ethnic nations in Southeast Asia
***This event on June 7th is postponed.*** --- A number of influential publications have recently warned that 'civic nationalism' - the kind based on shared respect for citizens' rights and freedoms - is illusory or impracticable unless infused with a strong dose of 'ethnic nationalism' - the kind based…
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Institute for Philosophy Common Book Launch
Conference
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CPP Colloquium: A Defence of Group Ownership
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Yara Al Salman, Assistant Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy.
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CPP Political Philosophy Workshop with David Owen: “On Vindication in Ethics and Politics”
Course
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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CPP Colloquium: The disposition to discriminate
Lecture
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War
Lecture, China Seminar Series event
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Crafts and innovation have always gone hand in hand. Nowadays a global re-evaluation of craft and craftsmanship is clearly noticeable. This is not a nostalgic return to an idealised past. It is a search to achieve a more sustainable society. Crafts can play a central role in different sciences and innovation.…
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
This online conference explores forms and usages of slavery as represented in textual sources from the early Islamic empire, ca. 600-1000 CE. The conference’s focus is on the regionality of the development of slavery as an institution and the lived experience of slavery in this formative period of Islam.…
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LCCP/CPP Colloquium CANCELLED
Lecture
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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Fireside Peace Chat with Arnold Stepanyan
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link. Abstract Presenting ideas from his recent book, A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (Duke University Press, 2021), Michael Bourdaghs will explore the fictional and theoretical writings of Natsume Sōseki…
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Meet the Europe Hub
Conference, Launch event
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Data governance: from open governmental data, to data commons
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Entangled Transformations: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Power Dynamics in Belarus
Please register at least 4 days in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and attendance details.
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CPP Colloquium "Discriminatory vs. Hate Speech: Wherein lies the difference?"
Lecture
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Live Event: China’s Digital Future
Note: this event will not be livestreamed. The panel discussion will take place in-person in the Humanity Hub in The Hague China’s emergence as a force to be reckoned with in the digital realm has caused some concern in Western countries, on topics ranging from Chinese espionage and control over data…
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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CPP Colloquium: A Tale of Two Crises. Or, Where is the Political Philosophy of the Biodiversity Crisis?
Lecture
- The Economic, Social and Political Effects of Migration
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‘In transformation’: trust, participation, and new socialities around collective food procurement networks in Gdańsk
PhD defence
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CPP Colloquium with Peter Niesen: Which ‘all subjected’-principle for animals?
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Peter Niesen, Professor for Political Theory.
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CPP Colloquium "Arbitrariness and the Threshold for Moral Status"
Lecture
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Middle East Culture Market 2023
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle East Culture Market
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Research at the Faculty in 2018: a sneak preview
A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our faculty? What unites us, and what exciting developments do we anticipate?
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Ten Leiden students awarded VSB scholarship to study abroad
Ten students at Leiden University were awarded a scholarship by the VSB Foundation, during a festive event in the Hortus Botanicus on 8 June. This scholarship will allow them to take a master's, or a second master's, or carry out a research project abroad. Who are they and what will they be doing?
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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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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education
During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Orestes Kyrgiakis and Claire van den Helder. They tell us about the causes they fight for and what it means for the University to be better.…
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanities projects will receive the funding.
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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’
In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden told us about their experience.
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Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro
The ‘Stans Prize 2017' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Davide De Mauro. Other CML prizes were awarded to Jeroen Guinee, Reinout Heijungs, Martina Vijver, Willie Peijnenburg en Kevin Groen
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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Sustainable growth: a continuous balancing act for the FGGA Board
Erwin Muller, Dean of FGGA and Administrator of Campus The Hague, and Koen Caminada, Vice-Dean, share their thoughts on how ‘we’ as a faculty are doing based on three themes. A discussion about the balancing act between what is and what isn’t possible and the natural urge to continue to grow, the utility…
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
From 19 to 21 September 2018 the third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) will take place at Leiden University. The theme of the conference will be 'Interfaces'.
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Public Administration celebrates its anniversary, professors reflect: '40 years young!'
Public Administration has been around for 40 years, and that deserves to be celebrated. Before the festivities begin, four figures from the Institute of Public Administration reflect on the past years, with one even looking back over the last 25 years. Speaking are: Bernard Steunenberg, Caelesta Braun,…
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2022 Conference on International Cyber Security: Navigating Narratives in Cyberspace
From 8-9 November 2022, The Hague Program on International Cyber Security will hold their next annual conference - this time in-person only in The Hague. Early-bird (until 31 August) tickets to attend (and discounted tickets for PhDs) are available right now.