3,017 search results for “south africa” in the Public website
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When International Organisations Undermine State Capacity: A Responsibility Paradox
Lecture
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International Law and Indigenous Rights in Australia
Lecture
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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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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Book launch: Roots of counterterrorism, Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence
Lecture, Book launch
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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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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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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Investigating palaeoclimate variability in the Iberian peninsula during the last glacial period and implications for Neanderthal disappearance
PhD defence
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Theopolitical Patchworks: Rule and Material Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Lecture, Research Seminar
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LUCIP Lecture, On Badness: Cruelty and Madness
Lecture
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Marketing Nostalgia: Packing and Unpacking the Everyday Lives of Children in Japan
Lecture
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Functional supramolecular systems and materials
Lecture
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis
No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14th and 15th centuries. Can historians learn anything from the coronavirus crisis? And what can we learn at the moment from historians? These are questions…
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Social Science Matters: Open Science
On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open science is the approach to science aimed at making scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside the academic…
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for children
A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short animated video was made by two German researchers with whom child psychologists Anke Klein and Annelieke Hagen are working. ‘With our translation, this…
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How do you prevent viral outbreaks? By protecting animal health
Many dangerous diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola and Q fever have jumped from animals to humans. But it is not only because of these diseases that we should include animals in our health policy, but also because of their right to health, writes PhD candidate Joachim Nieuwland. PhD defence on 13 May.
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Privacy under threat from ‘messy’ coronavirus app development
The Ministry of Health seems to be going full steam ahead in the search for a track-and-trace app to contain the coronavirus crisis. The apps are being developed with irresponsible haste, according to Valerie Frissen, Professor of Digital Technologies and Social Change.
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Hester Bijl on racism, inclusion and diversity at Leiden University
We talked to Hester Bijl about the worldwide protests sparked off by the death of George Floyd. A demonstration against racism will also be held in Leiden on 14 June. How does she, as Vice-Rector responsible for diversity and inclusion, view this issue? What steps is the University taking? And how can…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)
Conference
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Flaws in the Flow: Investigating Gaps in the Governance of Post-Consumer Textile in the Netherlands
Workshop
- Workshop "Flaws in the Flow": Investigating Gaps in the Governance of Post-Consumer Textile in the Netherlands
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
- European Union Seminar Series
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Climate justice through the courts: Will courts prevent (and redress) human rights harm from climate change?
Lecture
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
- LIAS China Seminar
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Roundtable 'The Dynamics of Contemporary Coercive Statecraft'
Debate
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Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
Conference
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The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI
Lecture
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
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LUCIR 2024 Annual Lecture: Courts in Conflict: Developments and Challenges in Human Rights Litigation in Armed Conflict
Lecture
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Closing the Gap 2022 | Responsibility in Cyberspace: Narratives and Practice
Conference
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Publications
Recent publications
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Campus the Hague 'Meet the Employer'
Course
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Reports
Overview of the CML reports