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We invite one and all to attend this year's graduation ceremony of Leiden University College The Hague. Held at the historic AFAS Circustheater, it should be a day not soon to forget.

Minister Van Leeuwen gives guest lecture on current global developments News - 9 April 2024
On Monday 8 April, a high-profile guest visited Leiden Law School. Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Geoffrey van Leeuwen gave a powerful speech to students about defending our interests in all current global developments.

Podcast 'Talk That Science' with Maikel Kuijpers as guest News - 25 May 2021
Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. Talk That Science was founded a few months ago and has grown into a medium where science, music, young adults and scientists come together.

Lord Martin Richardson guest speaker Opening Ceremony Advanced Masters News - 23 September 2021
On Thursday 9 September, Lord Martin Richardson (Scottish Supreme Court judge) gave a keynote speech to the new group of Advanced Master’s students.

Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important' News - 23 April 2021
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? Together with his colleague Maarten Lamers, he created the guest lecture 'Thinking about Artificial Intelligence'.

Prof Luuk van Middelaar guest professor at the Collège de France, Paris News - 22 March 2021
From 24 March 2021, Professor Luuk van Middelaar will deliver four public lectures on 'Geopolitical Europe: Acts and words' at the Collège de France in Paris, on the invitation of the Chairholder on International Institutional Law, Professor Samantha Besson.

Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy' News - 26 July 2021
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects, but according to university lecturer Elpine de Boer, both can make us think about what it means to be human and what we consider to be of value. Together…

Recap second Night of the Lobbyist: a diverse group of guests and new insights News - 15 November 2022
On Thursday 10 November, the Night of the Lobbyist was held. During this public event, organised by Leiden University and the Public Affairs Academy, many insights were shared regarding the different aspects of lobbying and the diversity of the world of the lobby.

Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’ News - 9 July 2021
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.

Guest lecture on Deterrence in the era of Great Power Competition News - 11 February 2022
During the guest lecture on 9 February, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Rob de Wijk and Frans Osinga discussed the situation in Ukraine and Taiwan. The crises in eastern Ukraine and the increasing tensions around Taiwan highlight the challenges the West faces in deterring aggression in the new era of key dynamics…

Being a guest teacher during your masters: how do the BrainTrain students experience the high-school visits? News - 19 December 2022
The outreach and engagement platform BrainTrain consists of five enthusiastic students of the masters programme Forensic Family Science. As part of their project, the students visit high-schools to teach adolescents about the brain, make them experience that their own reality is not always the only…

Special Guest Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world Event - 14 March 2025
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Guest lecture: Matsumoto Toshio’s Theory of the Antifascist Avant-Doc Event - 16 June 2025
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Keqin Zhao Guest PhD

Guest Lecture: The Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: A Look at the Government-Aligned Intellectual Scene in Turkey Event - 28 January 2026
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Pim Koopmans Guest Staff Member
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

Yanan Wang PhD candidate / guest
Faculty of Humanities

Tonko Zijlstra Guest
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences