4,657 search results for “political parties and social movements” in the Public website
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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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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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‘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…
- Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities Conference Governance of Migration and Diversity
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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
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Onzekerheid beïnvloed - de rol van emoties tijdens conflicten en strafbepaling
Lecture
- Public lecture "Conserving Art and Nature: how to deal with change" in Naturalis
- Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
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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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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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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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LIBC Publieksdag Brein & Recht
Conference
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Public lecture by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe
Lecture
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Unconscious Listening: The Constitution of Genres of Listening in Buenos Aires
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Fariba Karimi
Lecture
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LCCP Working Seminar with Annemie Halsema "Hermeneutics of the body"
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Willem Boterman
Lecture
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Information session PhD programme at the European University Institute in Florence
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture