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A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world's oldest works of art, researchers say
The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a study released Monday. Leiden archaeologist Dr Andrew Sorensen, not involved in the study, reacts on the find in a news article by NBC News.
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Publication by Talha Gunay on the implications of the proposed solidarity mechanism on the EU return system
Talha Gunay has recently authored a policy brief for the Horizon 2020 project, MIGNEX. The brief acknowledges the relocation of returnees as a potentially viable solidarity tool, provided that it is implemented with effective monitoring and that the mandatory relocation of asylum seekers or cancellation…
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Official opening of the Acts of Kindness pillar in the Lipsius building
It has already been a huge success in The Hague, and now the Lipsius building has one, too: an Acts of Kindness pillar. The official opening took place on Tuesday 20 September.
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explore the archaeology of Oss: ‘I was responsible for finding 50% of the pottery sherds’
The Municipality of Oss is a household name in the world of Dutch archaeology. For fifty years, Leiden archaeologists, in collaboration with residents of Oss, have been uncovering the history of the municipality. 2024 is the archaeological year of Oss! In a series of interviews we look back on fifty…
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position: Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries
The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…
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‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’
The international conference ‘Lessons from Afghanistan’ touched on many serious issues and raised several reasons for concern. But it also ended on a positive note. While politicians on both the domestic and the international levels have failed to prevent the collapse of the Afghan state, and we are…
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The year of the FGGA in 12 Facebook events and 12 Instagram highlights
Underneath you will find the 12 most important Facebook events that took place at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in the past year, and an overview of our Instagram highlights of 2018.
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President of the European Parliament in The Hague: ‘Your friends don’t want to vote? Let me call them’
‘We have to have accountability.’ That was Roberta Metsola’ for her audience on Thursday evening. The President of the European Parliament had come to the Wijnhaven building to speak with students.
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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An International Rule-Based Order and China in the Global Arena
Lecture
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Immersion without Mimesis: Song-Dynasty Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Karahantepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Playing China’s University Entrance Exam: The Videogame 'Chinese Parents' and Its Political Potentials
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Getting Done With Snouck
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Experience Day Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Study information
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Experience Day Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Study information
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Student for a day Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives (full)
Study information
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Student for a day Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives (full)
Study information
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Experience Day Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Study information
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Federico De Musso presents at the annual meeting of the 4S, Society for Social Studies of Science
Introducing the team's work on Comparison
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
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Hybrid Symposium 'Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe’
Conference
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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Faculty Symposium 2022: Humanities in Crises
Conference, Symposium
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Book Event: 'Seeking Western Men' with author Monica Liu
Lecture
- GTGC lunch seminar: remittance, paradigms, and extreme cases
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
PhD defence
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Selling the UN: Public Diplomacy for a New World Order
How was the future United Nations Organization promoted to global publics during WW II?
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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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Oxford University Press fast-tracks approval of commentary of the WHO regulations co-edited by Ginevra Le Moli
The International Health Regulations are a set of binding rules which organise the global response to viral outbreaks and other similar transboundary risks to public health.
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Elena Maria Rossi continues her search for the origins of the largest black holes, but now as a professor
Elena Maria Rossi is fascinated by black holes. Her appointment as a professor was a long-held wish, partly because there are so few female professors in her field. ‘My appointment is also a milestone for the Leiden Observatory.’
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Anneloes van Iwaarden: 'I think writing is one of the most fun things to do.'
Anneloes van Iwaarden works part-time as a communications manager at the Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). She grew up in England, Switzerland and the Netherlands, where she eventually studied international relations. But her passion was always writing.
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‘All the members of the Young Academy Leiden have a strong sense of responsibility'
The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) acquired six new members on 1 September. We talked to the new and former chair of this platform for young academics about what they have achieved over the recent period and what is on the agenda for the coming year.
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor
Leiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 November, from 16.00-17.00 in the Lipsius building, Room 0.19, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden. Afterwards, you can meet the new Visiting Scaliger Professor…
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for Overall Best Written Submission at the European Regional Round of the WTO Law Moot Court
From 28 February to 4 March 2018, the Leiden WTO Moot Court team participated in the European Regional Round of the 16th ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO law which was held in Naples, Italy.
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Hall of Fame 2015
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Seasons of Interdisciplinarity
The Seasons of Interdisciplinarity are an initiative by the Young Academy Leiden that started in 2021.
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Book series
Diplomatic Studies (DIST) is a peer-reviewed book series that encourages original work on the theory and practice, processes and outcomes of diplomacy.
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.