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

ICT conference Our Digital Future: ‘This touches on everything we do here’ News - 31 January 2023
What are the digital challenges facing us now and in the near future? This was the question discussed by over 250 ICT experts, functional application management staff and information managers during the Our Digital Future conference on 26 January. We asked some of them how they found the day and what…

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'.

5 questions to the Faculty Board on the digital communication code of conduct News - 28 February 2023
This month, the new digital communication code of conduct came into force. Why did this code need to be in place? And what do we gain from it as a faculty? Dean Mark Rutgers and vice-dean Mirjam de Baar explain.

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.

A digital spring clean: four handy tips from the Privacy Office Announcement - 26 February 2024
Security

language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections News - 13 June 2023
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…

Our Digital Future 2023 Event - 26 January 2023
Conference

Teachers' introduction to: (digital) Examination Event - 2 February 2023
Course

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

Adriaan van der Weel Professor Emeritus by special appointment of Book and Digital Media Studies
Faculty of Humanities