405 search results for “construction” in the Staff website
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Student and staff representatives raring to go: ‘Connection is the key to success’
The new academic year also marks the start of a new term for our student and staff representatives. Dozens of them – some experienced, others new to the game – are itching to represent the interests of the university’s students and staff. On the Training Day for Student and Staff Representatives, they…
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other
North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.
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Surprise: No methane on the night side of exoplanet WASP-43b
The night side of exoplanet WASP-43b, to the surprise of astronomers, does not appear to contain methane. It is likely that extreme winds do not allow enough time for methane to form in detectable amounts. This is the conclusion of an international team of scientists, with Leiden and Amsterdam contributions,…
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Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Latent Variable Modeling: Basic
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Circulation as Relational History
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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LUCIR Seminar: Power, Ideas, and International Orders: Contrasting the Classical Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching
Course, Hackathon
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
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Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Philosophy of Science for Lawyers
Research
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Speak up where it will help, not just at the coffee machine
For five years, Pauline Hutten put her heart and soul into the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), but a short time ago, she handed over the baton to Sanneke Kuipers, who is now Chair. We met up with them both for a joint interview about the importance of particip…
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme'
Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration may sound odd, but that is just what Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences Thijs Bosker wants to see happening. Together with his colleague Paul…
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From research in space to director on earth
After ten years and one day, Leiden Observatory has a new director. As of 1 September, Ignas Snellen will set the course for the astronomical institute. In this interview, you will get to know Ignas. Or at least a little. That is why we gave him five dilemmas and asked the people around him who he really…
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
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Applications of quantum annealing in combinatorial optimization
PhD defence
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Intercultural and inclusive communication in an academic context
Communication, Personal development, Diversity
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Towards a Historical Contextualisation of the Ancient Egyptian Perspectives of the Inner Body, Sickness, and Healing
PhD defence
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OSCoffee: Introducing the Leiden Academia in Motion programme
Lecture
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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An Ontology for Physical Necessity
PhD defence
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Farewell lecture Metje Postma
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Needham Question: Did Needham Need to Pose It? Is He Guilty of Coloniality?
Lecture
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The Remains of the Kula Devi: Broken Statuary and Elite Legitimation in Postcolonial Bengal
Lecture, Vrienden van het Instituut Kern
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Of Monsters and other Men: green Islam and the tidalectics of ecological crises in maritime Asia
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Conference, ESOF Conference
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Political Symbolism and Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! 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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Paul Natorp’s Reformulation of the Kantian Distinction between Intuition and Concept
PhD defence
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Centering the Marginalized: Migration, Marginal Areas, Commodities
Lecture, Seminar
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar