In the media
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022
Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Podcast on resilience gives a boost to worrying youths 19 December 2022
What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation 20 October 2022
Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduc...
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana 18 August 2022
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina 19 May 2022
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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New book shows impact of coronavirus on Leiden 06 September 2021
Tuesday 7 September sees the release of the book ‘Plots stond het Leidse leven stil’ by Charlotte Boin, a freelance writer from Leiden. This book of i...
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Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics 03 August 2021
Chinese athletes must perform this Olympics. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online. Flo...
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Koen de Ceuster on the NKNews Podcast about North Korean art 12 March 2021
Koen de Ceuster, university lecturer for Korea Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, was interviewed on the NKNews Podcast abo...
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Rogier Creemers in Schweizer Monat about China's social credit system 12 March 2021
Rogier Creemers, assistent professor in Modern Chinese Studies, wrote an article about China's social credit system in the Schweizer Monat. In the art...