3,380 search results for “leiden” in the Student website
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Well-Being Moment: Spring Wisdom Walk
Student wellbeing
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‘Let’s try not to lose sight of each other’ – Interview with Annetje Ottow
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experiencing group pressure.
- Keynote speech
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International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
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Opening academic year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
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Chinese New Year Festival Reception
New year reception
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Chinese New Year Festival Reception
Festival, New year reception
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
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Consent panel discussion - Join the conversation
Debate
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contexts
A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large number of co-authors in a bold attempt to expand and deepen how democracy is studied and understood. Among…
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Student Jesper: personal and social entrepreneurship
Jesper van Loon, a second-year Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences student, is a fully fledged entrepreneur. He was still a minor when he and his school friend Max started their own business, BLIJLES Bollenstreek, which has now expanded to the Midden-Holland and Haarlemmermeer areas. ‘This is what I want, but…
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community
Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…
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Decentralisation scrutinised: Research reveals downsides of small-scale governance
On 16 May, three researchers from Leiden University will present their findings on the democratic consequences of decentralisation at a workshop in Leiden. Their research project, Downsize My Democracy?, shows that decentralisation does not automatically lead to a stronger democracy. On the contrary,…
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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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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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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SHout! - Walk-in session for all your questions about finance
Study information
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Study Skills 2025-2026 (various aspects)
Study support
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Exhibition The eternal student
Exhibition
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 1: Comparative perspectives on campaigning, polarisation, and political violence
Debate
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Blue Monday well-being moment
Well-Being
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Anniversary activity: City Pier City Run
450 years
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Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion
Debate
- Purple Friday: Embodying the Change We Want to See
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
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Career College: Working as a Data Scientist
Career and apply for jobs
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Join the Gorlaeus biodiversity walk
Walk
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Anniversary activity: Canal concert
Arts and culture
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LUS Publecture
Lecture
- Workshop: How to manage your finances in 2023 (SHout!)
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
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Anniversary activity: SUP for Sustainability
450 jaar
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Spring in your step – Nature Walk
Student wellbeing
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Lunch meeting for starting student organisations/associations
Lunch meeting
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3 October University: Science Market
Festival
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UAF Meet-Up Region South-West
Arts and culture
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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
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Luchtkwaliteit in Beeld
Experiment
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’
Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further professionalise and improve the university’s organisation as per the Strategic Plan.
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Lessons for better education
If you could design your own education, how would you do it? That is what the students of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Rebuilding Education' asked themselves. The students were divided into five groups in which they designed workshops to improve education. They presented their workshops in December in…
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Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking?
‘Critical thinking’ is an expression all academics have heard of: it’s the first learning objective in the Leiden Vision on Teaching and Learning. It’s both a historical topic with roots that reach back a long way and a topical problem too. The question on everyone’s lips is whether critical thinking…