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A new Digital Lab@Veth! News - 29 October 2021
The Digital Lab is open! This new lab is meant for staff and students who are looking for a place to work, experiment, and find support for their digital research. There’ll be a kickoff event, with live digital demos and a roundtable on “the Humanities in a Digital World” on Friday October 29 in the…

Expand your digital knowledge at the LUCDH Digital Skills Winter Week News - 24 January 2024
The Winter Week of Digital Skills will take place in the PJ Veth building from 29 January to 2 February. There will be different workshops where you can improve your digital skills, from dealing with AI and ChatGPT to setting up your own podcast. University lecturer Jelena Prokic explains more.

Florian Schneider on China’s digital nationalism News - 17 August 2021
In recent years, online platforms have been utilized more and more to spread Chinese nationalist discourse. In an interview posted on The Diplomat, director of the Leiden Asia Centre Florian Schneider gives his thoughts on how the digital environment has changed the way Chinese activists work.

Vacancy: Student assistant for Digital Humanities project Announcement - 15 March 2024

Hossam Ahmed receives Comenius teaching grant for Digital Humanities track News - 28 June 2021
A better integration of Digital Humanities into study programmes, so that students develop their digital skills as well as possible. That is what Hossam Ahmed wants to achieve in the coming years. He received a senior Comenius Fellowship to develop a digital programme for students.

University signs Digital Sustainability Manifesto: ‘We need a Delta Plan’ News - 18 October 2022
Digitalisation can make a huge contribution to a greener future, but it must also be as sustainable as possible. To make significant progress, more collaboration and national leadership will be needed. Leiden University has therefore signed the Digital Sustainability Manifesto, which was presented on…

Digital education: what’s working well and what can we improve? News - 2 February 2021
Nearly a year since the abrupt switchover to mostly online learning, the Digital Education seminar gave teaching staff the opportunity to review their experiences. What can stay in 2021 and what must go? Frequently voiced opinions: yes please to digital tools that make lectures more interactive; yes…

Bart Barendregt Vice-dean of Research/ Professor Anthropology of Digital Diversity
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important' News - 23 April 2021
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? Together with his colleague Maarten Lamers, he created the guest lecture 'Thinking about Artificial Intelligence'.

Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy' News - 26 July 2021
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects, but according to university lecturer Elpine de Boer, both can make us think about what it means to be human and what we consider to be of value. Together…

Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’ News - 9 July 2021
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.

Bram Klievink Professor Digitalisation and Public Policy
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs