478 search results for “ecology” in the Staff website
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Lou Boshart, Xiaohui Liu, and Sarah Noordeloos winners of the Metje Postma Awards
Lou Boshart won the Excellence in Visual & Multimodal Ethnography Thesis Prize for his film ‘Layers of Confidence’. Lou produced a multimodal thesis about the way rat catchers in New Zealand enact conservation policies and reflect on the ethical challenges of eradicating invasive species. Xiaohui Liu…
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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The Tripartite Being: Deity, Tsangphu mountain, and human as local environmental agents in the Dagor community of Eastern Bhutan
Lecture, Asia Research Cluster
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
Conference
- LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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In the Making #13: Exploring the Multidimensional Nature of Radio
Arts and culture
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“The most fun programme there is”: An immersive learning approach to sustainable education
Lecture
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Can patterns save ecosystems from collapse?
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Can AI Save the Amazon? The Politics of AI Environmentalism in Colombia
EDGES Talk
- Liveable communities – Liveable Planet
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Webinar on research funding with China
Research
- Global Questions Seminar
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Lunchbyte Education on the Map
Lunchbyte
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Knowledge on/in African societies: re-opening the paths
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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70 years Mathematical Institute - growth, prosperity and (mathematical) challenges
Floreat et crescat. Flourish and grow. That was what was wished for the Mathematical Institute at its opening. Now, the institute proudly celebrates its 70th anniversary. Time to reflect on how it all began. And importantly, how is it doing now?
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. On December 9th, a symposium around his work will take place at Leiden University Libraries. This will be combined with the launch of Maria Boletsi's book…
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Mark Rutgers on visibility of the Board and managerial visibility
As I cycle to work in the morning, along Rapenburg to the Huizinga Building, I sometimes stop and dismount. The early morning silence and the rising sun that casts a spotlight on the Academy Building can be enchanting. On those days, I use the moment to take a photograph. I already have quite a collection.…
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now
Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports released this week, the panel calls on governments worldwide to develop coherent policies that address biodiversity, climate change, water, food and health.…
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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Deciphering the Atomic Structure of the Electrified Metal Oxide- Electrolyte Interface
PhD defence
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ASCL Seminar: Urban Transitions in the Global South - Harnessing opportunities and expanding possibilities
Lecture
- Presentation Book Panta Rhei: Recht en Duurzaamheid
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The ragwort problem: scientific insights and management
Symposium
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Navigating the Unpredictable: Climate Chaos and the Future of Water
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Jeroen GuineeFaculty of Science
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van der DoesSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene
Conference
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Dynamics of Despair: Examining Suicidal Ideation Using Real-Time Methodologies
PhD defence
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Evolution and development of orchid flowers and fruits
PhD defence
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Politics of Attention for the Environment: Small Steps and Big Leaps.
Lecture
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H2OLAW conference: law-science interfaces within the law of the sea and fresh water law
Conference
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SAILS x GTGC Roundtable on AI & Governance
Seminar
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Liveable Planet Lunch Lecture: ‘If you want to travel far, go together’: transdisciplinary collaboration for a Liveable Planet - Laurens Hessels
Lecture
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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Visualizing Multispecies Resistance: Pan-Amazonian Indigenous Perspectives
Lecture
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Talk by Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Elephants in the Room
Lecture