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Comeniusbeurs
Van studenten verwachten we dat ze kritisch lezen. ‘Maar hoe dan’, zeggen ze. ‘Je leest een artikel en het klinkt allemaal logisch en overtuigend, waarom zou het niet waar zijn.’ Psycholoog Anouk van der Weiden wil studenten leren om artikelen kritisch te lezen. En meer, daarvoor ontvangt ze een Co…
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured fashion with a ceremony in the Pieterskerk, but broke with tradition by sending professors out to primary schools.
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‘Creating propaganda has been democratised’
University lecturer Peter Burger has been researching the reliability of stories for almost 30 years. Whether political news item or urban myth, he debunks falsehoods and half-truths on an almost daily basis. He recently received a prize for his complete oeuvre.
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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Margot van der Doef first Leiden psychologist to hold Senior Teaching Qualification
'Continuing to work on my professional development is inspiring and stimulating, and it’s rewarding to have an influence on how psychology is taught.’ This is how Margot van der Doef describes the track that brought her the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). ‘And you can easily do it in parallel with…
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme'
Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration may sound odd, but that is just what Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences Thijs Bosker wants to see happening. Together with his colleague Paul…
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Big data cannot do without statistics
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data hype, genome research and collaboration with other disciplines. ‘Statistics helps wherever data is not perfect.’
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In Memoriam - Bas Edixhoven
On January 16, 2022, our respected and beloved colleague Prof. dr. Bas Edixhoven passed away after a short period of serious illness.
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CPP Colloquium with Peter Niesen: Which ‘all subjected’-principle for animals?
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Online mini-symposium 'The effect of the online world on adolescents''
Mini-symposium
- Persian 1+2 Intensive
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Book Launch: (A New) Translation of the Nahj al-Balagha
Lecture
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Justification, Performativity, and Islam in the Anthropology of Practical Legal Life
Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2022 / LUCIS Keynote
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Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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A Waste of Woodblocks: Publishing Humour in Late Ming China
Lecture, China Seminar
- African Studies Centre Leiden 75th Anniversary Celebration
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Webinar "THE ATTENTION SWITCH"
Alumni event
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Online Coach Café for young alumni
Alumni event
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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EU Seminar and debate on the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize
Debate, Seminar
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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In the Making #2: Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Lecture
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Dr Graça Machel to visit Leiden Law School
Conference
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ARC session - Sonification of Environments: Contemporary Film Sound Research
Arts and culture
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Different dimensions of openness in open science practices. The importance of collaboration for societal goals
Seminar
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The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Playing China’s University Entrance Exam: The Videogame 'Chinese Parents' and Its Political Potentials
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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New(er) Histories of the United Nations
Lecture, INVISIHIST Keynote Roundtable
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Modeling progress: event types, causal models, and the imperfective paradox
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Reedijk Symposium 2023
Conference
- Korean 1+2 Intensive Summer Course
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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LUCIR Talk: Protecting Nuclear Power Plants During War: Implications from Ukraine
Lecture
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
- Leiden University's Academic Challenge
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
- Former guest researchers
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Van Bergen Prize winner Archery Attack has growth potential
Dutch and international students brandishing bows and arrows fire at each other on the fields of the University Sports Centre on 11 May. This is the aim – not the shooting each other, but the act of getting together.