227 search results for “second world war” in the Staff website
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Anneleen van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eamon Aloyo
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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raid siren testing will continue as usual on Monday 7 March, despite war in Ukraine
Social
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Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Classics: The Leiden Observatory, the world’s oldest university observatory
Whether finding signals of dark matter or discovering hydrogen in the vicinity of exoplanets, Leiden astronomers are world players in their field, and they are part of a long tradition: Leiden was the first university in the world to have its own observatory.
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War in Ukraine: a statement by the Faculty Board of Archaeology
Organisation
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Internal move CML on first and second floor Van Steenis
Facility
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Registration open: second international conference Institutions for Conflict Resolution
Research
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Second round of Open Science Fund now open
Research
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No Internship/Field School 2 market in second semester
Education
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Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
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Juan Masullo Jimenez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Anna-Alexandra Marhold
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mark Driessen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Register for the second tasting Serving Diverse Communities on November 23
Social
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Call for Abstracts: second international conference Institutions for Conflict Resolution (COI)
Research
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about the fate of family and friends, they also face major financial problems. This also applies to Russian students who can no longer access their bank accounts.…
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EUniWell Open lectures series | War, Peace and Overcoming Helplessness: The Role of Universities
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Strong need to talk together about Ukraine
Everyone has been watching the attack on Ukraine, a war on the European continent, with a sense of foreboding. It will bring devastation, loss, suffering and worry and it raises questions. With these words, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl opened the meeting on the war in Ukraine at Wijnhaven on Thursday…
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Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Award Ceremony 2022. The LUC team was second behind Universteit Twente. The prize was awarded during the annual Comenius Festival of the Comenius Network.…
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DNA analysis of historical mosquitoes will help us understand malaria transmission
Researchers from Leiden University, McMaster University and Public Health Ontario are calling on colleagues to track down archival specimens of mosquitoes from museums and other collections and to examine them with modern methods. This will tell them more about malaria transmission.
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EUniWell welcomes Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), a leading Ukrainian university, is now a member of the EUniWell Alliance. KNU and the EUniWell partners will use their combined strengths to improve the well-being of individuals, communities and societies in Europe and beyond, through international…
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Mayke Kaag
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios.
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 6th in QS World University Ranking
It is the seventh year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios.
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Zelensky addresses students: 'Live your own life, but do so together with others'
A standing ovation. A wave and a smile from the president. A final selfie. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed students in the Netherlands for the first time on Tuesday morning via a livestream in The Hague. He did so in front of two packed lecture halls at both Leiden University and The…
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 5th in QS World University Ranking
It is the eighth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios.
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Dutch knowledge institutions suspend partnerships with Russia and Belarus
The Russian military assault on Ukraine has profoundly shocked knowledge institutions in the Netherlands, as represented by Universities of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Dutch Research Council,…