736 search results for “power” in the Staff website
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Navigating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork
On Friday the 5th of November, members of the CADS Institute engaged in a lively roundtable lunch discussion on navigating boundaries in ethnographic fieldwork. The roundtable was intended to share experiences and open up questions about navigating proximity and distance when engaging in research relationships.…
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‘We cannot abandon coronavirus measures until vaccines are shown to prevent virus transmission too’
All acute care staff at Leiden University Medical Center have received their first and sometimes even their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine. But how long will you be protected after vaccination and what does the genetic material of the virus do in the vaccine? Our virologists Ann Vossen and Leo…
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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New social media pilot at Archaeology: from Wes Anderson to community archaeology
Anyone who follows the Faculty of Archaeology on social media must have noticed that something changed in September. Videos on research projects, interviews with staff and students, and embracing memes: the content has become more varied and engaging. We speak with students Grace Alonzo and Thomas Prins,…
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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brussels’ as bureaucratic, even undemocratic, bypassing its citizens. And many of us buy into that image. Nikoleta Yordanova, Anastasia Ershova and Aleksandra…
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Travel reveals the mind
Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths. A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves,…
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New FNV union representative introduces herself
Leiden University has a new FNV representative: Thecla Meyknecht. Employees can come to her with questions and problems related to the workplace. ‘All managers should receive targeted training in which they learn to be proud of their human capital.’
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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How the world can achieve climate goals with clean hydrogen production
Hydrogen can help to solve the climate problem. At least, if we start producing it in the right, clean way. Leiden researchers mapped out the global environmental impact of hydrogen production and looked ahead to 2050. They published their work in Energy & Environmental Science.
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New book by Tom Buitelaar on the cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in Congo
On 22 November, Tom Buitelaar, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, presents his new book ‘Assisting International Justice’. Five questions to Buitelaar about the book and the book presentation.
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Alumnus Dave Wesselink: lawyer and professional bobsledder
Leiden Law School alumnus Dave Wesselink began his career as a lawyer in 2022. He’s also a professional bobsledder. ‘When you’re tearing round a bend at 130km/hour, you need to be able to stay calm and focused on what you’re doing.’
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Workshop Peer feedback with FeedbackFruits
Didactics
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Exhibition Imagine Intuition
Exhibition
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Intersecting Global Trends: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
- Lunchbyte Chatgpt
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Intimate Legal Interactions meeting- Maggie Nelson on freedom
Debate
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“Book Diplomacy” in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Conference
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Context matters: Law society relations in water governance in Laos and Myanmar
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Course for (new) members of Leiden University boards of examiners
Didactics
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre Book Talk: Ideology and Mass Killing
Lecture
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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Mongol Loyalty Networks
PhD defence
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Global Questions Seminar
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CCLS Seminar Vincent Merckx
Lecture, webinar
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Open Science Coffee: How to justify your sample size?
Lecture
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ReCNTR Work-in-progress Workshop: Photo Edition
Lecture
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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Webinar: what keeps you from giving feedback?
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
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The Revival of World War II in China: Multiple Histories, Malleable Memories
Lecture
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LIACS Research Seminar - nr 1
Lecture
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Brussels
Alumni event, Arbeidsmarktoriëntatie
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Introduction to 360 video
Didactics, Research, ICT
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Seeking the Truth through Journalism: A discussion with The New York Times’s Visual Investigations
Webinar
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Spin Transport and Superconductivity in Half-metallic Nanowires and Junctions
PhD defence
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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LDE Space Day
Conference
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Research Seminar
Conference, Research Seminar
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Multi-Layer Models and Activation Functions Workshop
Workshop Series
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
Lecture
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Status and trends in Open Science: open to what and for whom? The UNESCO OS Outlook
Seminar
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Voting with conviction? Or: why democracy may demand the impossible of voters
Lecture
- PCNI Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…