631 search results for “latin american literature” in the Student website
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Dependency Theory: Contemporary Relevance and Challenges in the Current Global Crisis
Conference, International Seminar, Hybrid
- PCNI Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Uni-visions: Hope, heat and wonder in 2075
Arts and culture, Studium Generale
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Michiel Westenberg advocates prevention for social anxiety: ‘Why wait until the damage has been done?’
Shyness is perfectly normal, Michiel Westenberg stated in his farewell lecture. But that doesn’t mean that social anxiety shouldn’t be identified and addressed in good time. ‘Serious shyness has strong genetic roots; you don’t just get over it.’
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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Exploring Challenges to U.S. Constitutional Norms
Lecture
- Summer winter schools
- Summer winter schools
- Summer winter schools
- Spring Student Well-being Week
- Summer winter schools
- Lecture by top economist Gabriel Zucman in new Spui building
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Peace or Lawlessness? The Vandalisation of International Law after UN Security Council Resolution 2803
Lecture
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Orange the World 2025 – Campaign Against Violence Towards Women
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Leiden Team Wins Second Place at the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court
Four master's students from Leiden University participated in this year’s edition of the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court, hosted by Antwerp University. Following the verbal rounds held between 21 and 22 March, the team went through to the finals, achieving second place overall.
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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Alumnus Jan Joosten: ‘New Amsterdam seemed more exciting than old Amsterdam’
Jan Joosten studied civil and tax law in Leiden from 1985. After exchanges and an internship, he became infatuated with the United States. He is now a partner and co-founder of a new law firm in New York: Pierson Ferdinand.
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Meet the Student workgroup D&I Student Wellbeing
On Monday 14 November 2022, our faculty student workgroup Diversity & Inclusion + Student Wellbeing will start working. The workgroup consists of seven motivated student assistants under supervision of the Faculty Coordinator Susanne Deen will get started on making the topics diversity & inclusion and…
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
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Frontex director Hans Leijtens: 'We don't stop migration, but we want to properly manage it'
What does European border security look like? On 14 April, Hans Leijtens, executive director of Frontex and former commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, is in The Hague for a lunch lecture. We spoke with him about border security, migration and the role of Frontex.
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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The Van der Loon family has had ties with Japan and Leiden University for over a hundred years.
Over a century ago, Alexandra van Elroy's great-grandfather left for Japan, where her grandmother was born. Together with her mother, Maaike van der Loon, she reminisces about her family history, through which a key thread is the study of Japanese and Chinese.
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Who’s still afraid of CRT? Equity research in education as resistance
Keynote & Q&A
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Trump’s Effect on Academia and Administration – Panel Talk with Professor Donald Moynihan on 26 May
Lecture
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In Search of a Homo Economicus Javanicus. From J. H. Boeke to Clifford Geertz.
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The UK and the EU: what shared interests in a digitised and geopolitical world?
Debate
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Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan
Lecture
- 10th Anniversary Celebration Adv LLM ICR
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Women's Rights in the New Geopolitical Landscape
International Women's Day 2025 - Seminar
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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy
Bezoek
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa
Lecture
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War and Power by Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien
Guest lecture
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Book talk: The Party’s Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian
Lecture, Book talk
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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Workshop: Rethinking Qualitative Comparison
Workshop
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Taking Theology Seriously: Islamic Media and the Revolutionary Struggle for a “New Egypt”
Lecture | LUCIS Keynote
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Iran Between War and Tyranny: What Comes Next?
Debate
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Bijutsu: The Key Issue of Contemporary Japanese Art
Lecture
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Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba
Lecture, Book talk