594 search results for “world s representation” in the Student website
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Update Executive Board: Response to parliamentary letter on internationalisation
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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Results of the 2025 university elections announced
The results of the 2025 university elections are in. Who will represent us in the participation organs?
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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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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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin MacajFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Leiden Classics: Cleveringa’s protest
On 26 November 1940 Professor Cleveringa held his courageous speech protesting against the dismissal of his Jewish colleague, Professor Meijers. Cleveringa was arrested and the university was closed. Every year the university honours Cleveringa with a chair and meetings throughout the world.
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
- Students and PhD candidates: apply by 18 December to join our Una Europa task force
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
- The University’s best ambassador
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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New Leiden Law School’s ‘Sustainability’ website
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Out now! LEAP # 3: Sense(s)
The editorial board of the Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) is proud to announce the release of the third edition , titled “Sense(s)”!
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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From lone genius to cocreator: how AI is changing the role of composers
Who is the real creator when a musician uses AI? This was the burning question for Adam Lukawski, himself a composer. During a fascinating premiere at Amare, The Hague’s cultural hub, he demonstrated what cocreation sounds like.
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Committee appointed on Rein Dool painting and exhibitions policy
A diverse (ad hoc) committee will advise Leiden University’s Executive Board on its exhibitions policy in a broad sense, with a special focus on the painting by Rein Dool in the Academy Building.
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy
At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy Building and what the guidelines for the University’s exhibition policy should be. These issues will be explored from diverse perspectives during the…
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Europaeum - Call for Applications, September 2023
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‘Grassroots projects can help democracy’
Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues want to investigate how grassroots art projects manage to keep democracy alive.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men
The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected on this at a symposium on Friday 26 May.
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Somayeh DjafariFaculty of Law
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Jonathan PriceFaculty of Law
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Merlijn van WeerdFaculty of Science
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Marlieke ErnstFaculty of Humanities
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Helena VrabecFaculty of Law
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Daniel ValeFaculty of Law
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Lieke FeenstraFaculty of Law
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Inga van Doornmalen
Faculty of Law
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Danny MekicFaculty of Law
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Hanneke LankveldFaculty of Law
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Christine TremblayFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Camille LefebvreFaculty of Law
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Eva SchmidtFaculty of Law
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Itai SiegelFaculty of Law
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Vera Wheni SetijawatiFaculty of Law
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Esteban SzmulewiczFaculty of Law
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Andreas KinnegingFaculty of Law
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Arie BoomertFaculty of Archaeology
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Skylar Joseph
Faculty of Law
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Isotta RossoniFaculty of Law
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Nikki Nilwik
Faculty of Law
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Eduard PopFaculty of Archaeology
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Simon van der StratenFaculty of Archaeology