2,200 search results for “humanism” in the Staff website
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Simon makes the ISSA podcast: ‘It is fun meeting new people and to have good conversations’
Simon van Hoeve is a student of the master’s degree programme International Relations. Every week, he makes a podcast episode for his study association, in which he discusses topics related to his study programme with his guests.
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Hunting of European straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago
Finds uncovered in the east of Germany show that Neanderthals stored and preserved vast amounts of meat and/or temporarily aggregated in larger groups to exploit the spoils
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A call about: the Research Support Conference
What does research support involve? And what should we do to improve the support for researchers at the University? We spoke to Maribel Adame Valero, research policy officer and external cooperation coordinator at the Institute of Biology and a member of the Leiden Research Support (LRS) focus group.…
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SAILS Summer Conference on Law & AI
Leiden Law School is organising a summer conference on Law and Artificial Intelligence as part of the interfaculty and interdisciplinary research programme on Artificial Intelligence (SAILS) at Leiden University.
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How light and noise pollution disrupt aquatic life
Fish populations in lakes and rivers have declined in recent decades. This is probably due to light and noise pollution. The Horizon Europe grant enables ecologist Hans Slabbekoorn to investigate this and improve the situation for migrating fish. In order to do so, a seven-metre-long swimming tunnel…
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Executive Board visits Leiden University College The Hague
Leiden University’s Executive Board (CvB) visited Leiden University College in The Hague on Friday 11 November during a working visit tour past the Institutes of the Faculty Governance and Global Affairs. Hester Bijl and Martijn Ridderbos were provided with an overview of the programme, the research,…
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End of year message from the Executive Board for staff and students
With the holidays just around the corner in this dark month of December, when we light candles as a symbol of warmth and hope, we would like to take a moment to reflect on this past year. We have accomplished a great deal together but the year has been difficult at times.
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What is BAS and what can the department do for you?
A number of organisational changes have been implemented in the faculty office of the Faculty of Humanities. This has led to the creation of BAS: the department responsible for Policy, Advice and Strategy. Department heads Marcel Belderbos and Tim Lamers introduce themselves and the new department.
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Wanted: student-members Programme Committee 2022-2023
Education, Organisation, Human resources
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The extra-curricular course What’s Next? gets students thinking about their future
Education
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The BIAS project attends an international co-creation workshop in Venice
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, participated in the Horizon Europe BIAS Project international co-creational workshop geared towards discussing fairness of AI applications in the hiring process and ALTAI requirements.
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Cultural genocide: 'I see no scenario in which Uyghur culture can revive in Xinjiang'
Within just a few years, the Chinese government's policy towards the Uyghurs deteriorated sharply. From control and marginalisation, it shifted to violation of human rights. PhD candidate Elke Spiessens was right in the middle of it with her research. 'The fabric of the community is being completely…
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Executive Board column: A look back at the strategic conference
Our annual strategic conference was held this year on 15 and 16 June in Soesterberg, and has now become a tradition at our university.
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Reflecting together on Gaza conflict: 'Precisely as philosophers, we have something to say about this'
Seventy students, researchers and PhD candidates from the Institute of Philosophy gathered on Friday 23 February 2024. to discuss the responsibilities of citizens, scholars, and intellectual communities to the civilian population in Gaza.
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Psychology Elevator Pitch: How do we solve social dilemmas?
A clean street, public transportation, or taxes: these are all public goods that keep society running. But how do people decide which public good to invest in, if at all? These are the kind of questions PhD student Laura Hoenig explores.
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Herðubreið - Mountainous Geo-Power and Deep Time
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Livestream Mercator Sapiens Stimulus Mariska Kret
Lecture, Award ceremony
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Fariba Karimi
Lecture
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
- Futures from the frontiers of climate science
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LUCDH Winter Workshop & Teach the Teachers Workshop in Digital Skills (closed)
Course, Digital Skills Workshop
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Inhibitors and activity-based probes for retaining β-D-glucuronidases, heparanases and β-L-arabinofuranosidases
PhD defence
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
- New NWO Open Competition SSH - Briefing on 22 September
- Celebration highest building point Cluster Zuid
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Paleonerds Lecture: Visual Palaeopsychology
Lecture
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Tamas David-Barrett
Lecture
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Affective Fish
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Stolen Focus: Our Brains Online - The Reading List
There is a reasonable chance that you came to this reading list through a social medium. Now it's our job to keep your attention. We are going to do our best. There are so many distractions; from notifications on your phone, to another screen near you, that may also be screaming for attention. Every…
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Internationalisation in education
Onderwijsmiddag
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Conference, ESOF Conference
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Explore the Digital Lab with LUCDH: Open Lab and Demos
Lecture
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Sea level rise and a Florida mortuary pond
PhD defence
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar
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PhD Library Skill Session of 2021-2022
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Workshop: Caste and Diplomacy
Conference
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'ALICE': Understanding SLURM: Simplifying High-Performance Computing
Workshop