786 search results for “is a and the world” in the Student website
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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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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Leiden researchers call for new guidelines for AI-generated images in journalism
Generative AI presents journalists with new options for image use but also raises ethical questions.
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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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Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics
Chinese athletes must perform this Olympics. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online. Florian Schneider, director of the Leiden Asia Centre, explains the situation on BBC News.
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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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Designing and building a sound sculpture with 3D printed parts
In the Digital Humanities Lab, students and staff can make use of various technical facilities. PhD student Caeso tells us more about his experiences with the printer in the Maker Space.
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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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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
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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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The Geopolitics of Japan: 2025
Debate, BASIS The Hague, Universiteit Leiden
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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
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Hao WangFaculty of Science
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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.
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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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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Paul CliteurFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mink van IJzendoornFaculty of Archaeology
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Ruhama Yilma AbebeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Harry FokkensFaculty of Archaeology
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Carolien JacobsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid