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‘Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar’ debate: ‘World Cup football is never just about sport’ 26 September 2022
Various guests with a background in human rights, law, politics and international relations will be taking part in the ‘Human Rights and the World Cup...
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Perspectify: an imperfect art exhibition 22 September 2022
The PERSPECTIVE project looks to address the concept of successfulness. What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’, to be 'successful' at universit...
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Two new Impact Challenges at KPN for Leiden University students 21 September 2022
Just like last academic year, students from Leiden University will get the chance to gain practical experience at KPN. In cooperation with the telecom...
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives 20 September 2022
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philoso...
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden 20 September 2022
‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he s...
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Travel log Laura Kamsma: travelling by train to the EAIE conference in Barcelona 20 September 2022
Laura Kamsma, Head of the International Office of our Faculty kept a travel log during her visit to the EAIE conference. You can read her report here.
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Grant for research into the influence of experts 20 September 2022
Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Public Administration, has received a grant of 1.2 million euros from the Research Council...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022
SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, is holding an open day on Sunday 25 September. It has had a branch at the Leiden Bio Science Park ...
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A more sustainable Leiden through citizen science 15 September 2022
In the Leiden Municipality Challenge, 25 students investigated how Leiden could become more sustainable. In doing so, they enlisted the help of the ci...
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden 15 September 2022
A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ot...
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world 15 September 2022
Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...
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Kilian de Kruyf Molina: ‘I would recommend doing an internship if you want to gain more work experience’ 13 September 2022
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on inte...
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives 12 September 2022
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksm...
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Prinsjesfestival & Prinsjesdag: overview of events organised in and around the University in The Hague 08 September 2022
The third Tuesday of September is getting closer and that means ‘Prinsjesdag’ (Little Prince Day) and the opening of our own faculty’s academic year. ...