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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Herenboeren Rotterdam: Farming for the Future
Consumers are encouraged to think of food production and consumption as amoral activities – Michiel Korthals in his book Goed Eten: Filosofie van voeding en landbouw (2019, 353)
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“This China alumni network is a way to give something back to Leiden”
If you would want to set up an alumni network after you graduated in Leiden and returned to your home country, how would you go about it? Seven Leiden alumni in China did not hesitate and decided to just do it! Last year they launched the Leiden Alumni Chapter in China, an initiative which was met with…
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing that scientists are driven by ambition, hope and faith. She is linking Vrouw Vennepolder, a polder in Zuid-Holland, to the UN climate goals.
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Get to know Seif Kabil, chairman young alumni network
Seif Kabil is the new chairman of the International Young Leiden Law Alumni Network. Time to get to know him better.
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Social Science Matters: Online privacy
In our digital society, the internet seems to offer endless possibilities for expressing yourself, gathering information, and making contact with others. The anonymity of the internet seems to give us the freedom to come and go as we please. But what about our online privacy? Should it be dealt with…
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Protecting Cyberspace in the Indo-Pacific through European and Japanese Cyber Diplomatic Initiatives
Lecture
- GTGC lunch seminar: Nina Hall on Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
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Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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Meet the Europe Hub
Conference, Launch event
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Structures of Power: US Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era
Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History
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Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Radical Spotlights: Economics of Political Chaos
Inaugural lecture
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Hephthalites, Romans, and Arabs: the Grand Strategy of the Sasanian Empire
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Arts and culture, LUCIS exhibition opening | Islam in Central Asia
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Working for the EU, something for you?
Career and apply for jobs
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Gender and International Criminal Law
Conference, Seminar
- African Studies Centre Leiden 75th Anniversary Celebration
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'
The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre in 2019. A woman with a deep awareness of historical places, she sees it as more of a series of coincidences, but the…
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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The Rule of Law Under Challenge: The Enmeshment of National and International Trends
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data
PhD defence
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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(CANCELLED) The UK, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. How strong bilateral relations are crucial for multilateral diplomacy
Lecture, Seminar
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Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century
Conference, INVISIHIST Conference
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
- Volume 5 (2010)
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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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Water and Society Lab
How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?
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Outward appearance in Dutch criminal law. What is the suspect up to?
On 27 February 1976, two men wearing motorcycle helmets and carrying loaded guns ring the door of temping agency Cito. A security van has just delivered cash. The suspect later claims in court that he and his friend were just doing a ‘dress rehearsal’ – preparing ahead in other words, but not an actual…
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‘Friends can achieve a great deal together’
On 29 January, the Mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, was awarded Leiden University’s Scaliger Medal. The longest-serving Mayor of Leiden was presented with the medal by the University’s longest-serving Rector Magnificus, Carel Stolker. Lenferink was awarded the medal in recognition of his achievements…
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Social Science Matters: Wokeism
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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Blog Post | An Identity Perspective on Non-great Power Public Diplomacy
The postwar Liberal International Order faces grave challenges today mostly in the form of geopolitical competitions among great powers and exclusionary identity politics unfolding across different countries.