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Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf
Lecture
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculty of Law
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Titia LoenenFaculty of Law
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Tim EnweremFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Niels van DoesumSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Kristof GombeerFaculty of Law
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Everest Gromoll wins LUF Thesis Prize with groundbreaking research on human responses to climatic shifts
On Saturday, February 11, 2023, at the Dies for Alumni event, archaeology alumni Everest Gromoll was awarded the LUF Thesis Prize. His thesis, titled ‘Neolithizers by Nurture’, explores parallels between the only two comparable climatic shifts in the history of modern humans: that of the one 12,000…
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Archaeologist Mette Langbroek works on beads exhibition: ‘Humans have a special relationship with beads'
Beads are among the oldest types of human artistic expression. Even so, the small ornaments have a bad status record regarding archaeological investigation. PhD candidate Mette Langbroek, usually at home studying early medieval beads, had the opportunity to work on a publication and exhibition on 5000…
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Unfolding unopened letters based on X-ray tomography
Lecture
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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On the origin of ‘bloopergenes’: unraveling the evolution of the balanced lethal system in Triturus newts
PhD defence
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Giulia PinzautiFaculty of Law
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Wouter HinsFaculty of Law
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Christopher DugardFaculty of Law
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Bill SchabasFaculty of Law
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Ton DietzAfrican Studies Centre
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Horst FischerFaculty of Law
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Harry WelsAfrican Studies Centre
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Carolina Lisboa PintoFaculty of Law
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Tuomas AiveloFaculty of Science
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Gerard Persoon
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Marie Schwed ShenkerFaculty of Law
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Jaap van den HerikFaculty of Law
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes on 13 October.
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Ramira van der MeulenFaculty of Science
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Ian SimpsonFaculty of Archaeology
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Sandrine GalloisFaculty of Archaeology
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Eduardo Herrera MalatestaFaculty of Archaeology
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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International students speaking: 'Dutch directness, helpful people and roze koeken'
The new academic year is on its way and for most students it takes some getting used to being present at the KOG every day. What about international students? We spoke with three internationals who have been studying at Leiden Law School since this academic year.
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2023: the nominees
Towards the graduation ceremonies, you sense an increasing nervousness. Not only because all the tradition and glamour surrounding the event, also because that will be the day that the winner of the Political Science master’s thesis award will be announced. For 2022-2023, the jury is considering seven…
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Humanities researchers publish a new journal issue inspired by times of crisis
The ninth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference has been published. This time the theme is ‘Reinventing Boundaries in Times of Crisis.’
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Successful Open Day for Humanities: ‘Here you feel how it really works’
Full lecture halls, a crowded information fair and a queue for coffee in the basement: during the Open Day, the Faculty of Humanities was inundated with curious prospective students.
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Can humans observe a single particle of light? (And what does that say about our brain?)
Hoping to learn something about the human brain, Leiden researchers are creating a setup to shoot single photons, particles of light, into someone’s eye. ‘The eye is a passageway to the brain.’
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Archaeologists come up with a more precise estimate for how long modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed
Modern humans and Neanderthals may have co-existed in France and Northern Spain for up to 2,900 years until the Neanderthals disappeared. This is what archaeologists from Leiden University and Cambridge University write in a new publication in Scientific Reports.
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Vijay BoltSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Kyra AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Hadis TamlehFaculty of Humanities
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Elena Solá Simón
Faculty of Humanities
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Anders OttossonFaculty of Humanities
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Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandros Ntaflos
Social & Behavioural Sciences