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A Roman camp or not? How our archaeologists found the answer
Archaeologists from Leiden University find what is clearly an earth wall and ditch structure in the woods near Ermelo. They suspect it may be the remains of a Roman military camp, but as yet have no conclusive evidence. Will they be able to solve the puzzle?
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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EL CID in a time of corona: ‘This is great fun – we don’t know what it was like before anyway’
The EL CID introduction period is mostly online this year. But all first-years get to come to Leiden for a day for a taste of studying and student life. We came to have a look on Wednesday 12 August.
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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and Biden
Few have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was least worst. What do psychologist Willem van der Does, historian Andrew Gawthorpe and policy science scholar Brandon Zicha make of the debate?
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Leiden Law Cast: Victimisation of sexually transgressive behaviour with Maarten Kunst
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and Helsinki has investigated the development of friendships within the Leiden student association Augustinus and obtained some remarkable results.
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?
Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed thousands of handwritten letters from the eighteenth century, mainly written in German and French. His personal mission is to visualize the daily lives…
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public in so many different ways. This is the first Public Prize awarded by the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hugo says with a smile:…
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Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL)
Conference
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
- Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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In the Making #4: Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Lecture, Conversation
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Free-riding on scrappage subsidies
Lecture
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Prosociality as trigger and fuel of intergroup conflict
Lecture
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
Conference
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
- Exhibition: Food Waste Transformers
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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HI The Hague Student Area
Festival
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Dutch Excavations in the Eastern Nile Delta
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Third meeting of Leiden University's Being the First student network
Thematic Meeting Being the First
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Functional supramolecular systems and materials
Lecture
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CADS Spotlight: the newest research coming out of CADS!
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Alumni Career Event Methodology and Statistics Psychology
Alumni event
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For Posterity
Conference
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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LLRC conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching
Conference
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Your rights and freedoms on the World Wide Web
Debate
- Statistics Workshop: All hands on Stata
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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European Mining Conference: Developments in Deep-Sea Mining and the EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Conference
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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Lecture on Russian military concepts and the war in Ukraine
Lecture
- Event | The Hague Space Diplomacy Symposium
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When International Organisations Undermine State Capacity: A Responsibility Paradox
Lecture
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Developing a Proof of Concept on the digital documentation of Theban Tomb 45 (Luxor, Egypt): some recent results
Lecture
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52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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LLRC conference: Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom: opportunities and risks
Conference
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.