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University Council speaks with Executive Board about security, demonstrations and occupations
On 14 July, the University Council discussed the draft version of the new ‘security framework’ with the Executive Board. This framework should make Leiden University’s security policy more transparent.
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’
The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture.
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Master’s students conduct research into a sustainable Leiden
Conducting research for the municipality: this is a deliberate choice for the master’s students who are taking part in the Resilient Cities Hub, part of Learning with the City. Nina Ruig and Marron Loods are two such students. They are researching sustainability issues for the Municipality of Leiden…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever'
Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.
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In memoriam professor Harry Wijshoff
On March 28, 2023, our esteemed colleague Prof. Harry Wijshoff passed away. He died after a struggle of several months against a serious illness.
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Sandra Palmen is State Secretary and alumna: ‘My main goal is to get the childcare benefit redress operation back on track’
Sandra Palmen studied tax law at Leiden University and built a career within central government, currently as State Secretary. She was one of the first to raise the alarm about the child benefits affair and is now righting the wrongs.
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Alumna Lindsey Boosten: ‘Aviation is a great sector to work in’
Lindsey Boosten followed her passion by combining the study of aviation and law in the Advanced Master in Air and Space Law in Leiden. It turned out to be a great choice: ‘It was one of the best years from my student days.’
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Alumnus Heidi Burrows: ‘Children are inherently vulnerable’
What is it like to study law in the Netherlands as an international? Alumnus Heidi Burrows came to the Netherlands from the UK to study International Children’s Rights, an Advanced Master’s Programme. We asked her about her experiences with this unique programme.
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Exhibition Presenting with the City at Humanities
Exhibition
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Opening Exhibition Presenting with the City at Archaeology
Arts and culture
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Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers' Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital, 1909-1922
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Online Information Session U.S. Business Law Academy
Lecture
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The Road to Decolonising Research
FULL | Panel discussion and brainstorm session
- Come visit the Honours Conference!
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AFITE/Una Europa conference ‘A Three-dimensional Initiative on Academic Freedom’
Conference
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Perspectives on Taiwan's Cultural and Public Diplomacy
Conference, Workshop
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Philosophical Explorations: What is a Good Life?
Lecture
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Colloquium "Democratising Academia"
Conference
- Summer Celebration Honours Academy 2023
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
- 450-talk Egbert Koops
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Opening academic year FSW
Opening Academic Year
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Together we Thrive: United in Diversity, Connecting Cultures
Social activity
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. Jasper first wrote his column from Kuala Lumpur, and it was ready to share. Then a crisis arose this week that demanded…
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Online Kress Talks with Felicity Good and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
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Voices of Gen Z: Shaping Transitions in the City of Peace and Justice
Book Presentation
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Connect, collaborate, contribute: Explore Una Europa at our Community Meet-up
Community Meet-up & Networking
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Public lecture by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe
Lecture
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Clothing Swap and Borrel with LUGO
Clothing Swap & Borrel
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Student election debate for faculty council elections
Debate
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Thinking through Drawing and Illustration: A Workshop with Ulrike Uhlig
Course
- Open Science in Archaeology: an Unconference
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Suriname symposium: focus on diversity and biodiversity
Conference
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Information Meeting Honours Programme FGGA
Study information
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Student workshop on the contemporary Native American novel
Lecture
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LUS Publecture
Lecture
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Faculty Opening Academic Year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
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European Commission webinar on wellbeing, inclusion and school success: mapping your school’s journey
Lecture