716 search results for “is a and the world” in the Student website
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Jeroen GuineeFaculty of Science
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Arnold TukkerFaculty of Science
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Rita de Sousa e SilvaFaculty of Science
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Luc AmkreutzFaculty of Archaeology
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Dive into the origins of the International Labour Organisation and the League of Nations
The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) and the Embassy of Ireland are jointly organising a special book launch in The Hague. On 13 November, Gerry Finnegan, author and a former director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), will…
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Live blog: Alternative demonstrations in Leiden and The Hague against government cuts
Alternative demonstrations were held in Leiden and The Hague on Thursday 14 November after the national protest in Utrecht was cancelled. Leiden University supports these protests, which were organised by WOinActie. Read our live blog of the demonstrations.
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Come to the pre-strike meetings in Leiden and The Hague
Organisation
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Sampling the course and the campus on the Bachelor’s Open Day
It’s Saturday and electric minibuses ride back and forth bringing prospective students to Leiden University’s various faculties. They want to see for themselves whether that interesting-looking programme will suit them.
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Jaap van den HerikFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Marco CinelliFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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East Europe’s Forgotten Peasant Revolution: The Era of World Wars Reconsidered
Lecture, Seventh Annual Austrian Studies Lecture
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Join us at 3 October University and the Weekend of Science
Are you curious about how the human skeleton works? Discover this and more on 3 October in Leiden and on 4 October in The Hague.
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of this.
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about the fate of family and friends, they also face major financial problems. This also applies to Russian students who can no longer access their bank accounts.…
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Frans de HaasFaculty of Humanities
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Nina EggensFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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James McAllisterFaculty of Humanities
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Bernard SteunenbergFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Joost BeltmanFaculty of Science
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Boya LiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas HankemeierFaculty of Science
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Annemarie MeijerFaculty of Science
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Han de WindeFaculty of Science
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Alexander van OudenhovenFaculty of Science
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Eleftheria MakriFaculty of Science
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Peter van BodegomFaculty of Science
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities