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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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Leiden Law hosted the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Toogdag 20 September 2022
The Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights Research Programme at Leiden Law School had the honor to organise the Netherlands Network for Human Rig...
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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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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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Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law wins Erasmus+ grant 19 September 2022
Dr Robert Heinsch and his team of IHL Clinic researchers at the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law have won a prestigious Erasm...
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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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Criminal cases and the media 15 September 2022
On Wednesday 7 September, the new first-year students of Law and Criminology at Leiden Law School visited the Stadsgehoorzaal for a College Tour on th...
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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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Opening ceremony Advanced Master programmes 15 September 2022
On Thursday 8 September, the official opening was held of the Advanced Master programmes at Leiden Law School. A group of international students gathe...
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Alumna Sytske Besemer on living and working abroad 15 September 2022
This month's flash interview is with alumna Sytske Besemer, Criminologist, who works at a startup called Cradle. Sytske has specifically chosen to wo...
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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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Soup and swimming: Volunteering while at university 14 September 2022
During the Faculty Introduction Week, new bachelor’s students of the Leiden Law and Criminology programmes were introduced to learning and living the ...
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Professor Ann Skelton appointed as Children’s Rights Chair at Leiden University 13 September 2022
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed South African Professor Ann Skelton as the new Chair of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World as ...
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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...