105 search results for “fight” in the Student website
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change
Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar?
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Fighting for power in Mali: 'Land resources are crucial'
In the Malian Dogon region, various militias have been fighting for power since 2015. Land resources play a major role in this, doctoral student Ibrahima Poudiougou discovered. 'Power in the area is intrinsically linked to control over land and its resources.’
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Pride is a celebration, but also a fight for visibility
‘Be yourself. Be as gay, queer, trans as you can and show the world you exist.’ These rousing words from Looi van Kessel marked the start of the third Pride Leiden for the university boat, with the theme: ‘450 years of being yourself’.
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Franciscus ClaasFaculty of Medicine
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Sjaak NeefjesFaculty of Medicine
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Paul ParrenFaculty of Medicine
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Frits KoningFaculty of Medicine
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Thomas OttenhoffFaculty of Medicine
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Pancras HogendoornFaculty of Humanities
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Erwin MullerExecutive Board
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Annette van der Helm-van MilFaculty of Medicine
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Reinaldus ToesFaculty of Medicine
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Mark de BoerFaculty of Medicine
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Bart RoepFaculty of Medicine
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Jan-Peter LoofFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten VermeerFaculty of Medicine
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James HardwickFaculty of Medicine
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Thomas HuizingaFaculty of Medicine
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Water movements
Lecture, Blue History Network Graduate Forum
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Lecturer and students taking action: 'Anton de Kom deserves a statue in The Hague’
Why doesn't the Surinamese resistance hero and independence fighter Anton de Kom have a memorial site in his former hometown, The Hague, while there are streets named after colonial leaders? The students of university lecturer Anne Marieke Van der Wal-Rémy are committed to the erection of a statue.
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In memoriam Robert-Jan van Ette
Organisation
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Joanne van der LeunFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martine JagerFaculty of Medicine
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Sjoerd van der BurgFaculty of Medicine
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Jelle van BuurenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ed KuijperFaculty of Medicine
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Martin TaphoornFaculty of Medicine
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Judith BovéeFaculty of Medicine
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Marcel TijstermanFaculty of Medicine
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Christi van AsperenFaculty of Medicine
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Adriaan LankesterFaculty of Medicine
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Carien CreutzbergFaculty of Medicine
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Lioe-Fee de Geus-OeiFaculty of Medicine
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Jeanine de Roy van ZuijdewijnFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ruth PrinsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rob TollenaarFaculty of Medicine
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Peter DevileeFaculty of Medicine
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Maria YazdanbakhshFaculty of Medicine
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Ferry OssendorpFaculty of Medicine
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Liesbeth van der HeideFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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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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Mario van der SteltFaculty of Science
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Hermen OverkleeftFaculty of Science
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’
An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freedom: these all featured in Leiden University’s 450th Dies Natalis celebration and the official start of its jubilee year.
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Hoe gaan we om met oplopende spanningen? ‘De keuze is: vechten of praten’
‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s Hooglandse Kerk. They discussed the rising tensions since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. ‘Dare to ask each other questions.’
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…