249 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Student website
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Official opening of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Festival
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Students speaking about this academic year: ‘It’s okay if one day doesn’t go so well.’
Nearly all students have faced many challenges this academic year. Students Nasreen Javanjoo (Religious Studies) and Marcos Cordova (Literary Studies) talk about their experiences of studying in the time of coronavirus.
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Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl on Palestine event: ‘Let’s have an academic debate with room for different perspectives’
There’s been a lot of commotion about the ‘Apartheid in Israel’ panel discussion being cancelled. The organisers, Students for Palestine, wanted to hold this at Leiden University’s Wijnhaven building in The Hague on 21 March. The Executive Board would only allow the event to go ahead if guarantees…
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes on 13 October.
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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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Too late for your lecture? That’s a thing of the past with the new Kwartiertje pass
Being on time for a lecture can be hard for students. To make life easier, you can now request for a ‘Kwartiertje’ pass.
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Well-Being Moment: Spring Wisdom Walk
Student wellbeing
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Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden
Stadswandeling
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Minor's Information Market
Study information
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Master's Open Day
Study information
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Master's Open Day (cancelled)
Study information
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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LKV's Art Auction
Festival
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Access to Justice in Today’s Libya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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Online Master’s Experience: Career Service
Study information
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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On-campus Master’s Experience Day: City Tours Leiden
Study information
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
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Online Master’s Experience: Practical Matters: Admission & Application
Study information
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture
Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March.
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To Counter or Not Counter Violent Extremism? That’s the Question
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seeking the Truth through Journalism: A discussion with The New York Times’s Visual Investigations
Webinar
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Making ‘no-man’s lands’: infrastructural, connectivity and closure across China-Burma-India during global war
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Third meeting of Leiden University's Being the First student network
Thematic Meeting Being the First
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium