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Legal community determined to get rid of religious accommodation
There is a crisis in the law concerning the accommodation of religious practice. The legal profession is demanding that the law be changed because it does not want religious institutions to have the 'right to discriminate'. The profession holds that evolving societal sexual norms can render lawful religious…
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Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights
The Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights was established at Leiden University through an endowment given by Dr. Raymond R. Sackler and his wife, Beverly, international philanthropists with a commitment to supporting scientific research. The lectures mark the annual celebration of International…
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Blog Post | The Diplomatic Elite, the People at Home and Democratic Renewal
‘Foreign policy’ may seem to the general public to be merely an official response to problems entering the nation from across the border. Yet the political reach of diplomacy has extended, and diplomats will have to find ways to engage more with home citizens, including those who feel sidelined and…
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Conference Hazelhoff Centre: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, the conference ‘Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets’ was held on the 11th of May 2017 at law firm Stibbe in Amsterdam. The conference attracted an international audience originating from more than five different…
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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’
Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Geert Vons is director of Sea Shepherd Netherlands. How does he look back on his degree in Chinese Studies, and what motivates him in his work? ‘If we don’t…
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Students from all corners of the world
Callum is from Ireland, Sharitah is from The Hague and Kirsten is from Manilla. The new students taking part in the HOP week from 19 to 23 August come from all corners of the world. The HOP week is the introduction week for students at Leiden University in The Hague. The diversity of the student population…
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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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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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Focus Raqqa: reconstruction of a Syrian museum collection
In the civil war in Syria, the country's cultural heritage is also under threat. There have been further acts of vandalism in Palmyra and many of the city's museums have been looted. Leiden archaeologist Olivier Nieuwenhuijse's Focus Raqqa project aims to make a digital inventory of the plundered archaeology…
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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European Strategic Autonomy and a Rising China
An informal exchange
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
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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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Syncing up for a good conversation: Cognitive mechanisms of conversational alignment
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Consensus and ideology in expert communities: The case of economics
Seminar
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LCCP Lecture The Social Dimension of Critical Phenomenology
Lecture
- Sustainable Career Event
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Indigenous populations’ major political impact in Latin America: (Re)shaping the nation-state in Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, and Perú
Lecture, PCNI Roundtable
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LED3 Lecture: Harnessing the Chemistry of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Lecture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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Attitudes and perceptions about democracy and authoritarianism under the new generations in Chile
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
Lecture
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Online Dispute Resolution through the Lens of Access to Justice
Lecture
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
- Preparation Course for the ILEC Examination
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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'Heroic Humanities', in honour of Isabel Hoving
Conference
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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IPSA RC31 Conference, Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy
Debate
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Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene
Conference
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Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court
Panel Discussion