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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival
It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaboration with Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden at the (Y)our Rights Festival in Leiden. Children, youths and adults will discuss children’s…
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From camel keeper to doctor
Two terrifying yellow eyes stared at eleven-year-old Francis Lesilau. In the evening light they changed colour: green, amber, back to yellow... The lion had just grabbed one of his camels and now turned to number two. For a moment Francis was nailed to the ground, then he ran towards the predator, screaming.…
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First NWO Communication Award for Leiden Wall Formula project
Sense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen have been awarded the first ENW Communication Award by funding agency NWO for their Wall Formula project. The award aims to encourage scientists to communicate about their research. It consists of a sculpture and a 10 thousand euro sum for science communica…
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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything.’
‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting researchers to be experts at everything, even though she herself keeps a lot of balls in the air.
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as he heard from a number of Leiden researchers, this is contingent upon a firm disciplinary basis. A novelty of this year’s celebration was a joint dies…
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Big data cannot do without statistics
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data hype, genome research and collaboration with other disciplines. ‘Statistics helps wherever data is not perfect.’
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Islam and citizenship in the classroom
Islam has a rich and fascinating history, but if you talk about it in the classroom, all kinds of opinions and emotions come up. 'How do I incorporate these responses into my lessons?' The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is organising a study trip on ‘Islam and Citizenship’. Fourteen teachers from…
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Blog Post | How Sahel Rebel Groups use Online Diplomacy
Authors: Michèle Bos and Jan Melissen
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‘Debating is about being a good listener’
Apprentices in the art of debate: that is the best description of the group of secondary-school pupils from Pre-University College who battled it out with each other and European parliamentary candidates on 29 March. The fitting location was Huis van Europa in The Hague.
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The Significance of Style
From September 20 to 23, an international Summer School was hosted by the Museums, Collections & Society research programme. PhD candidate in Archaeology Nicky Schreuder attended the Summer School.
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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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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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Onzekerheid beïnvloed - de rol van emoties tijdens conflicten en strafbepaling
Lecture
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
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International Women’s Day
Event
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China Seminar: The Digital Geographies of Secrecy
Lecture
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Aligning research quality with collective benefit: participatory, diverse and inclusive research assessment reforms in Latin America and the
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
Lecture
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Book launch As Above So Below 🙃 - Ruchama Noorda
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Birth of beautiful brides: Rise and transformation of the female gender roles and responsibilities among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Martin Berger
Lecture
- ReproducibiliTea Leiden: Getting started with open science (journal club)
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How to use local talent in standing up for climate solutions?
Roundtable discussion
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The morphosyntax of wh-paradigms and wh-copying
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
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VVIK Lecture | Uncovering the Manuscript History of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita: Tracing and Reconstruction
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
- ReproducibiliTea Leiden: The Reproducibility Project: Psychology (journal club)
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OSCoffee: Introducing the Leiden Academia in Motion programme
Lecture
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The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Art exhibit Jeanne Viet
Arts and culture
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Modern dance basics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Molecular precision Surgery: technical innovations and their relation to interactive perception
PhD defence
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Narratives of Vulnerability
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Racial Capitalism, Sexuality and Labour: Experience of Young Northeast Women in the Spa Industry in Hyderabad, India
Lecture
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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LIBC Publieksdag Brein & Recht
Conference
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
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Reimaging Peace Democratization in Yemen: Women, Transnationalism and Activism in Exile
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Terrorism and Foreign Fighters: Lecture by Dr. Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Lecture
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.