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The First 20 Years: Reconsidering European Union Enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe
Conference, Conversation
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Asia-Europe Cooperation on Inclusive Digital Societies
Webinar
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The Leiden 'Humanities in a Digital World' Symposium
Symposium
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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EU Integration Strategy: The Way Forward in 2022
Debate
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Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Conference
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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Kusundic, a possible linguistic substrate in the Himalayas
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Tradition and Performance of Zoroastrian High Rituals
Lecture
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POPTalk: Spoken Word
Arts and culture
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Speeddate Humanities
Study information
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes
Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Netherlands now demands a re-evaluation of Dutch colonial responsibilities. By recovering knowledge of these gains, this project will measure the wealth obtained…
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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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ILS conference on the European Union as a Global Actor in Maritime Security
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2018, the Europa Institute organized a conference within the framework of ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ and in cooperation with four Interest Groups of the European Society of International Law. The event brought together representatives…
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Aline-Priscillia and Ruşen nominated for an ECHO Award
Working towards a more inclusive and diverse society, next to your studies. Humanities students Aline-Priscillia Messi and Ruşen Koç devote a considerable amount of hours to this every week. Now they have been nominated for an ECHO Award.
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Featured Review | A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics
Tom Long (2022). A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190926212, 240 pp. (hardback), £19.99.
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Theses Children's Rights online
Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights Outstanding Student Research Theses
- Alumni Stories
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Opening Exhibition Presenting with the City at Archaeology
Arts and culture
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Unde Venisti? The Prehistory of Italic through its Loanword Lexicon
PhD defence
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A New Database, Family Tree and Origins Hypothesis for the Indo-European Language Family
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Family as a language policy regime: power, agency and negotiations at home
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Asia Research cluster workshop: collaborative research and stakeholder interaction
Course, Workshop
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Exhibition Presenting with the City at Humanities
Exhibition
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tentoonstelling-leren-met-de-stad
Exhibition
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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To Counter or Not Counter Violent Extremism? That’s the Question
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century
Conference, INVISIHIST Conference
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Dynamics and practices of internationalisation in model organism science - a South American perspective
Seminar
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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Cameroon: From colonial discriminatory decrees to forging new multilingual language policies
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’
Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing to do this now he is working from home? And how is Silvia Vermetten digitising Eastern manuscripts from home?
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Leiden cholera epidemics mapped out, literally
Three cholera epidemics struck 19th-century Leiden. Today’s corona epidemic prompted Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at the Leiden University Libraries, to scour the library for maps about these past epidemics.
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Beatrice Penati will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in October 2016
Beatrice Penati is Assistant Professor of History at Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan). Dr Penati will deliver a guest lecture on Monday, 10 October and a masterclass on Thursday, 13 October within the Central Asia Initiative at Leiden University.
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers
The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to receive the STQ award.
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes
During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined the geographic origin of the animals. And guess what? In many cases they discovered exotic populations of animals that do not naturally belong in The Netherlands.…
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Alumna Akke de Hoog: ‘My work is teaching me how to think in terms of opportunities’
Akke de Hoog (26) helps asylum seekers whose application has been rejected to plan their future and voluntary return to their country of origin. Her master’s programme taught her about migration and how international politics, the climate and the economy impact different migration flows, as well as…
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
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Assessor Olivier passes on the baton to Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens
For two years, assessor Olivier Fajgenblat was a familiar face of this faculty. Starting September 1st, it will be up to Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens to look after the interests of students in all kinds of matters. Together they look back on and look ahead to being assessor at the Faculty of Humanities.