1,716 search results for “much” in the Student website
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Timo Kos: ‘We want our buildings to be as open and safe as possible’
Speaking for the Executive Board, Timo Kos reflects on the university’s security policy and what lies ahead. ‘We want to keep our buildings open, but we also need to be able to guarantee the safety of everyone there. It’s a real balancing act.’
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Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities
Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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Politicization and democratic control of EU decision-making
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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Lecture by Michael Mazarr on 'Deterring China: Challenges and Opportunities'
Lecture
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Jump for Joy – Fitness clinic
Arts and culture
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Everything you wanted to know about intelligence (especially why the pros still get it wrong)
Q&A
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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Career College: Working in Research
Career and apply for jobs
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The Visuals of Empire
Lecture, The Visuals of Empire
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Why Nixon Went, and Trump Stuck Around
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Shipwrecks and Cultural Diplomacy
Lecture
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Career talk for MSc and PhDs: academia or industry?
Lecture, Career talk
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Cleveringa lecture
Inaugural lecture
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A Computational Approach to the Segmental and Tonal Classification of Yue Dialects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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New Perspectives on the Presentation of Japanese Art II
Lecture, Seminar
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Experience Day Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, On Campus Experience
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Making Islam Work: Islamic Authority among Muslims in Western Europe
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Embark on the Ultimate Adventure: Journey to Discovery Symposium!
Symposium
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Book talk: The Party’s Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian
Lecture, Book talk
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Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers' Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital, 1909-1922
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Understanding human migrations requires a long-term perspective
Lecture
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Ski Slopes, Sandy Beaches, and the Politics of Tourism in Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Lecture
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Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Lecture
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Different dimensions of openness in open science practices. The importance of collaboration for societal goals
Seminar
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What Trump’s Return Means for Europe
Debate, Roundtable
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Career Prep
Career and apply for jobs
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A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography
Lecture, Talk
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland
Lecture
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Exploring Web Archives
Lecture
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Tuesday Talks: Science Insights | 3 September 2024
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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Navigating the Changing Security Landscape in Europe
Lecture
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Student Talk: Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet
Lecture
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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Leiden University joins national 113 campaign: ‘It’s okay to feel uncomfortable about talking about suicide’
Talking about suicide is important, but anything but comfortable. To make this difficult subject easier for students and staff to discuss, the university is organising a campaign week in line with the national campaign ‘1K Z1E J3’ (I see you) being run by Stichting 113 Zelfmoordpreventie (113 is the…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Meet our international students!
The Week of the International Students, from 14 – 18 November is an initiative of Nuffic. The aim of this week is to showcase the importance of an international experience for both Dutch and international students. This year’s theme Meet the world, make the change highlights the positive change students…
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Interviews with over 100 civil servants under Trump reveal worrying picture
It was challenging to get civil servants from the first Trump administration to speak about their work experiences, but sociologist Jaime Lee Kucinskas succeeded. The picture that emerged from her findings, she says, is far from positive. 'The more I spoke with them, the more emotions I saw. They were…