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Book: The Capacity to Innovate: dynamics in clusters and cluster policy
The Capacity to Innovate is a recently published book by Sarah Giest, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration. In this article Sarah gives insight in the main findings of the book and the experience developing it.
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Pressure on River Management Leads to more Frequent Flooding
In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because…
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Online Book Salon Elizabeth Stuart – with Nadine Akkerman
On Thursday 2 December, Nadine Akkerman, Reader in early modern English literature will be a guest in the online book salon of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Head Curator Garrelt Verhoeven will interview Akkerman about her book Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. In her biography, Akkerman describes…
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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.
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Call for Papers Special Issue: Multi-Level Leadership for Collective Good
The Leiden Leadership Centre (Leiden University), the Centre for Leadership Ethics and Organisation (Queen's University Belfast) and the Journal of Change Management will be organising a symposium and a special issue on multi-level leadership for the collective good. The complexity and dynamics of societal…
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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Powerful new Leiden 'super antibiotic' may overcome resistance
The prestigious journal Science Translational Medicine has published a study by researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) on a potent new antibiotic that can overcome resistance. ‘The idea was to tweak the original antibiotic and create a next-generation drug’, says Nathaniel Martin, professor…
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Open Science Coffee: A hands-on guide to preprints
Lecture
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A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, China Seminar
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Why are we so determined to find Amitābha in Gandhāra?
Lecture
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professionals shared knowledge, gained inspiration and became acquainted or got to know each other even better at the third Leiden Research Support Conference…
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Re-occurring moments to reflect on our values: ‘It’s about commitment to culture change'
How do we navigate the continuously developing landscape in research integrity, ethics, and open science? Anna van 't Veer and Eiko Fried discuss the underlying principles and values of science with all psychology units in their Responsible Scholarship workshop.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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R: Introduction (modular)
Career development, Working effectively
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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Visualizer and Special Collections
Training
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Woodworkers and farmers 3000 years ago: transitions from the Rigveda to the Atharvaveda
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Visualizer training: using the overhead Visualizer and special collections during your lectures
Training session
- What's New! ""But where is the third?" Qur’anic Divorce in the Context of Roman, Rabbinic, and Sasanian Law
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Numata Lecture: The Art of Brewing a Cup of Mindfulness: History of Gonfu Tea Ceremony across East Asia and Beyond
Lecture, Tea ceremony
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
Lecture, COGLOSS
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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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The Advent of Abrī: The First Wave of Paper Marbling in the Long 16th Century (ca. 1496–1616)
PhD defence
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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Qahramon Yakubov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in April 2023
Lecture
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"I Now Declare You…”: Marital Status as Legal Technology in South Africa, Past and Present
Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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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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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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Book talk 'Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time, Space, and Generations'
Lecture, Online webinar
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Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis