731 search results for “society unit” in the Staff website
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Global governance in practice: EU & UN Summer School 2025
From 16 to 20 June 2025, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University hosted the annual Summer School The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance in The Hague. The programme brought together recent graduates, PhD students, and young professionals from a variety…
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden Healthy Society Center match-making event
Matchmaking event
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with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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Benito investigated benefits scandal: ‘rules can profoundly impact society’
The child benefits scandal caused significant harm to families. The independent Hamer Commission specifically investigated the link between the scandal and the removal of children from their homes. Public Administration student Benito Walker was a member of this commission and shares his experiences…
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Muslim Futures Festival
Arts and culture, Festival
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80th anniversary of United Nations War Crimes Commission-its legacy and relevance
Conference
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Anne Land-ZandstraFaculty of Science
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screen. Leiden partnership wins award from the Royal Astronomical Society
Simulation project EAGLE has won the 2022 Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. EAGLE is a large collection of simulations about the formation of galaxies. The largest simulation contains as many as 6.8 billion particles and took months to calculate on the world's fastest superc…
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Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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From the Spanish flu to Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis: 'Government intervention can have unexpected effects'
From the Spanish Flu during WWI to COVID-19: the role of the American government in these Pandemics. Professor Giles Scott-Smith, who together with Dario Fazzi and Gaetano Di Tommaso completed the book project Public Health and the American State, discusses a century of American responses to health…
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Food for Thought: Unhealthy Finance -Shifting Responsibilities in Society”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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In conversation with our researchers during the Dutch Bio Science Week
The past few days we interviewed several of our researchers about their various studies during Dutch Bio Science Week. They answered questions such as what impact their research has on our future and with whom they have established valuable collaborations.
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Health@FSW: From loving-kindness meditation to selective mutism
Can kindness training increase political tolerance? And how can we better support children with selective mutism? During the Health@FSW knowledge market and exchange event on 26 May 2025, researchers from all five institutes showcased how their work aligns with the faculty’s research strategy and contributes…
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Paul CliteurFaculty of Law
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Janine UbinkFaculty of Law
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Santy KouwagamFaculty of Law
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The Imperative of Success; United Nations Peacekeeping in Cambodia (1991-1993)
PhD defence
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Focussing on lifelong mental health
A healthy and happy society. This is what researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences are working towards, together with a selection of partners from different disciplines and regions. To further structure research about Health and Well-being, the faculty has identified three focus area’s. Researchers…
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Andrea EversSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century)
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Vladimir Gildin-ZuckermanFaculty of Humanities
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Iris de Wit
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Corjanus
Faculty of Humanities
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Paulina Pía Bastián AlvaradoFaculty of Humanities
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David van BodegomFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Tineke AbmaFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Guus van der Peet
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik de Bruin
Faculty of Humanities
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Sebastiaan van Wijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van MulierFaculty of Humanities
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmar HugenFaculty of Humanities
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Sini HassinenFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke DrostFaculty of Science
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Fatima al Moufridji
Student and Educational Affairs (SEA)
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Paulina Rabah Ramírez
Faculty of Humanities
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Dong XiaFaculty of Humanities
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Bas WagenaarFaculty of Humanities
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Antonia PieperFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marlene ZijlstraFaculty of Humanities
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Ton van KalmthoutFaculty of Humanities