238 search results for “animal” in the Student website
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Papyrus, roses and a sea cat: the Leiden Dioskurides
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
- SSEALS - 2024
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Educational adventures in the tropics: discovering rainforests in Borneo
Photographing fluorescent flowers, searching for frogs and shooting tropical cucumbers out of trees: this is only a small part of the course Tropical Biodiversity and Field Methods. For this class, master’s students biology traveled to Malaysian Borneo for two weeks to gain experience in fieldwork.…
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes it to the market. This is an enormous loss for patients and society. With a grant from the National Growth Fund, Oncode-PACT aims to efficiently select…
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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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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Offshore windfarms and fishes - APELAFICO NWO-NWA public closing event
Lecture and excursion
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Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
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Museum Talk: The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
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International Studies 10 Year anniversary
Festival
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Karahantepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Towards an Archaeology of Malaria
International Symposium on Malaria Studies
- Urban Health Programme
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Neutrino: Documentary & Q&A with the directors
Studium Generale
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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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Leiden Law Cast #2: The role of the criminal defence lawyer with Dr M. Lochs
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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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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We are Science Week
Festival
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Career Talk with Maurien Olsthoorn
Debate, Career Talk
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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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eLaw Summer School: 'Regulating AI and data in an age of EU digital reforms', 24-28 June, Leiden (Registration now open!)
Course, Summer School
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. Jasper first wrote his column from Kuala Lumpur, and it was ready to share. Then a crisis arose this week that demanded…
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about the effect the drugs can have on depression, anxiety and PTSS, but at the same time they have some doubts. ‘The hype is bound to crash before long.’
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Michiel Westenberg advocates prevention for social anxiety: ‘Why wait until the damage has been done?’
Shyness is perfectly normal, Michiel Westenberg stated in his farewell lecture. But that doesn’t mean that social anxiety shouldn’t be identified and addressed in good time. ‘Serious shyness has strong genetic roots; you don’t just get over it.’
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Japan and the Netherlands in a Global Context: Transnational Intellectual Currents of the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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LUC Major Choice Declaration Deadline
Study information, Major Choice Event
- Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2023
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium