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How long before a global plastics treaty is agreed?
Plastic pollution is a major global problem. In Geneva, world leaders are discussing a possible plastics treaty. Lecturer Esther Kentin talked to Dutch news platform NU.nl about the UN summit: ‘A treaty is only a small part of the solution.’
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Dutch Enterprise Chamber examines abuses at Nexperia
Next week, the Enterprise Chamber will decide on an investigation into possible abuses at Nexperia. Lawyers say the outcome is clear. Harold Koster, Professor of Company Law, spoke to the ‘Financieele Dagblad’ and suggested a political solution.
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Reading group: Abandon All Hope?
Reading group
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Open call to BRIN-LDE Academy
The 2022 Academy is co-organised by Leiden, Delft Erasmus Universities (The LDE Alliance) from the Netherlands and the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Aim of this five day programme is co-creation in the field of teaching and research on sustainable urbanisation. It also aims to facilitate…
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Aris Politopoulos -
Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Susana ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Femke Bakker wins 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize
Political scientist Femke Bakker (Leiden University) has won the 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize. According to the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), her ‘Hawks and Doves: Democratic Peace Theory Revisited’ is best thesis in politics of the past year.
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference, Symposium
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Powerful corporations determine climate policy in Brazil
Bribing a politician to gain influence or making sure friends end up in powerful positions: Brazilian energy companies use these power strategies daily.
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Reading Group: The Silence of the Sea
Reading group
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Phenomenon & the Limits of Public International Law
PhD defence
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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Interview Ilya Kokorin – ‘Hup, Holland Hup, wasn’t the right answer’
Doing a PhD can be challenging. Moving to a foreign country can be challenging too. PhD candidate Ilya Kokorin, who was born in a small town in Siberia, faced both, while at the same time having to overcome a number of additional challenges and build a future post-PhD.
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An ethical compass is crucial to intelligence work
Intelligence and security services often operate in the shadows. Michael Kowalski calls for a clear, applied ethical framework as the foundation of intelligence work in a democracy.
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Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600
Louis Sicking's Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe was awarded an 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant from NWO. What can we learn from how maritime conflicts were managed in the past?
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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'Time for a fundamental strategy on State aid to multinationals'
The debate on tax evasion by multinationals is in full swing in many Member States. Last week it was announced that the European Commission has started an investigation into possible illegal State aid from the Netherlands to Nike. It is likely that dozens of other companies are getting away with it.
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Does Trump have the authority to single-handedly take on Mexican drug cartels?
The American president Trump is considering military intervention in Mexico to get rid of the drug cartels once and for all, but Mexico is not interested in other countries' interventions. According to Jelle van Buuren, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Trump's much…
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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LUCIP Colloquium "Humans as Heaven: Innaecheon 人乃天, and the Resilient Spirit of Korean Democracy and the Korean Wave"
Lecture
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Veiled references to the Armenian genocide
No criticism is allowed in Turkey of the mass murder of Armenians that took place a century ago. PhD candidate Alaettin Carikci examined how contemporary artists, authors, film directors and museums have nonetheless found indirect ways of expressing their criticism.
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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‘An internship at Foreign Affairs is an incredible experience and a good way to boost your career’
Niels van Leeuwen is enrolled in the Master Public Administration: Economics & Governance. During the first stage of his master, he did an internship in the United States, at the economic affairs department of the Royal Netherlands Consulate General in Chicago. ‘There are more ways that lead to Rome…
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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Dirk VisserFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jochanan VeerbeekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Dennis BroedersFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Analysis of clustering algorithms and performance evaluation metrics applied to samples of the Tell El-Yahudiya ware typology
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Nation Building, Historiography, and School History in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethiopia’s Enigma of Our Time
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture