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Struggle in the region: China and Taiwan fight for support in Central America
Honduras recently severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after 82 years. In doing so, the country is following the trend of other Central American countries that have turned their backs on the Asian island in recent years. Why are these countries making this choice now and what does it mean for Taiwan's…
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Alumni event: from peacekeeping to making connections for the future
On Thursday 6 May 2021, alumni of the Bachelor Security Studies (BaSS) and the Master Crisis and Security Management (CSM) were gathered in an online event arranged by the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the study association L.S.A. Custodia.
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Winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024: Baleseng Maeneche
The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2024 prize has been awarded to Baleseng Maeneche, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, for her thesis 'Media Representations of Male Perpetrators of Violence against Women and Children:…
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Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa
Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
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Leiden researchers and SEO Economisch Onderzoek examine financing insolvency administrators
Leiden researchers from the departments Company Law and Business Studies will be collaborating with SEO Economisch Onderzoek on behalf of the WODC. The subject of their research project will be the financing of the insolvency administrator.
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More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’
On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.
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Markus Davidsen wins 2021 Impact Prize
Markus Davidsen, assistant professor of Religious Studies, is the winner of the 2021 Impact Prize. He is receiving the prize of 1,000 euros for the material he has developed for religious education in secondary schools.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Rogier Creemers: ‘A nine-to-five job would make me miserable’
Rogier Creemers is a lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies. While he looks for challenges in his lectures, in his free time he much prefers to go back to basics and work with his hands.
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this interview, he will tell more about the content of his project and its aims.
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Mink van IJzendoorn investigates the end of amphorae with a PhD in the Humanities grant
This year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant went to Mink van IJzendoorn, enabling him to investigate the disappearance of amphorae. ‘We take means of packaging and shipment for granted, but they are deeply ingrained in our daily lives; they are crucial.’
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Christopher Green on ABC Australia about COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea
Assistant Professor Christopher Green was interviewed on ABC Australia about the recent COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. Green says that the statistics the isolated country has given are ‘essentially nonsense’.
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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Applications for Visiting Professorship in Central European Studies at Leiden DUE!
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Introducing Prof. Eva Pfanzelter, Visiting Professor of Central European Studies at Leiden, Spring 2025
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Joni ReefFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maikel KuijpersFaculty of Archaeology
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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant
A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on how Europe developed after the fall of the Roman Empire with special attention to the yet underexplored but undoubtedly important…
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Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Visuality of Deaf People in Contemporary Times
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- Sign Languages and Deaf People (SL&D) lecture series
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Study Abroad Kick-off Session: Second-year LUC students
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Study evening: 'Intelligence-Led Policing: Strategies, Challenges, and the Future'
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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Rene KleijnFaculty of Science
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Study evening: Technology and Police training: Forging the next generation of policing professionals?
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Tools for real-time study of bioorthogonal conversions in the living system
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Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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Kabinetsvoorstel voor lager bindend studieadvies: geen goed plan
De Universiteit Leiden vindt de aanpassing van het bindend studieadvies geen verstandig plan.
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
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MA Asian studies Graduate Student Conference: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
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A Comparative Study of Cosmology and its Dynamics in Zhang Zai and Max Scheler
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The Metamorphosis of Change: A Study of Plato’s Theory of change
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Towards responsible and resilient mineral supply chains, with case studies on cobalt, antimony, and zinc
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Globalization of Waldorf Education; An Ethnographic Case Study from the Philippines
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Synthetic Affinity-Based Probes for ADP-Ribose Interactome Studies
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Evolvability and epistasis studied through the lens of an antibiotic resistance enzyme
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Substrates and inhibitors to study and modulate ER-I α-glucosidase activity
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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Approaches to Study Biologically Relevant Reactions: Examples from Amyloid Aggregation to Enzymes
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Miniaturized metabolomics methods for enabling the study of biomass- restricted samples
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Design and Synthesis of Click Lipids as Tools to Study Immune Cell Metabolism
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Destroy, Create, Transform and Sublimate. Laboratory Dissociation Studies on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Analogues
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