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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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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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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Marcel SchaafFaculty of Science
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Jeroen GuineeFaculty of Science
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Stephen HarrisFaculty of Humanities
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Roeland van der RijstICLON
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Marco CinelliFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Hosting Global Justice: The Netherlands and International Courts (ICJ & ICC)
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Exploring Challenges to U.S. Constitutional Norms
Lecture
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
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Book Launch: Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
Book launch
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The 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Working together to fulfil the promise of peace
Conference
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Van de Waal Lecture 2025: Shared heritage or cultural appropriation? The Iko-Schmutzer sculptures
Alumni event, Lezing
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Peel Slowly and See
Festival
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Household Robots : Training Datasets & the Politics of Categories
Lecture, Film Screening + Q&A
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International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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In the Making #9: Eloquence of the Ineffable — The aftermath of the 2018 opera La Tragedia di Claudio M
Arts and culture
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Non-Criminalisation and Super-Criminalisation of Same-Sex Love
Lecture
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Leiden Anthropology Conference 2
Conference