420 search results for “amsterdam” in the Student website
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Rob van Amsterdam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina interviewed for podcast Hortus Amsterdam
The Hortus Talks is a podcast series as well as a botanical college tour, recorded in the greenhouse in the middle of the Hortus Amsterdam. The theme of the podcast was plant migration. In this context Anastasia explained the importance of understanding how hunter-gatherers impacted past landscapes…
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Await AND anticipate. How the municipality of Amsterdam manages developments in the digital public domain.
The issue of how to deal with a development such as digitalisation in the public domain raises difficult questions for the municipality: who is responsible and when do you intervene?
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VU Amsterdam wins sixth edition of Max Rood Moot Court Competition
The sixth edition of the Max Rood Moot Court Competition was held on Friday 24 June 2022. This Dutch interuniversity labour law moot court unfortunately could not take place the last two years due to the coronavirus, but this year teams from four universities took on each other again. The day was organised…
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Museum Talk with Annabelle Birnie (Hermitage Amsterdam)
Alumni event, Lecture
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Internships and research vacancies
During your studies you'll acquire a good theoretical basis. But what about practical experience? By doing an internship you can gain a clearer picture of a particular position or sector. For some study programmes an internship is a compulsory part of the curriculum.
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Complex networks in perspective
Conference
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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Roundtable on Slavery: From Scholarly Debates to Public Reckoning
Conference, Histories Connected: Faculty Roundtable
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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The Salm story: the forgotten architects of the Netherlands
Music venue Paradiso, the Keizersgracht Church and the Artis Zoo’s aquarium: these buildings all owe their design to architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Salm and Abraham Salm. Remco van der Kuijp researched the place of father and son in architectural history. PhD defence on 25 March.
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Crafting Resilience: Politics and Practice
Crafting Resilience: Politics and Practice - A 4-year research project funded by Dutch National Research Agenda, exploring government, community & citizen efforts for social resilience in marginalized communities. 2 research traineeships available for Dutch-speakers.
- Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
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Sander Hölsgens in NRC about the online game The Elder Scrolls Online
Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor, anthropologist and the editor of Gamer.nl. In NRC he talks about his favourite moments in the online game The Elder Scrolls Online. Despite a mediocre start in 2014, the computer game based on the Elder Scrolls series now has an active community of millions of…
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Sander Hölsgens in NRC about the online game The Elder Scrolls Online
Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor, anthropologist and the editor of Gamer.nl. In NRC he talks about his favourite moments in the online game The Elder Scrolls Online. Despite a mediocre start in 2014, the computer game based on the Elder Scrolls series now has an active community of millions of…
- Well-Being Moment: Workshop Perfectionism: break the cycle of never good enough
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Singing Techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Painting and Drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Current research projects
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Painting with Acrylics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
- Histories Connected
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Indigenous populations’ major political impact in Latin America: (Re)shaping the nation-state in Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, and Perú
Lecture, PCNI Roundtable
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre roundtable: Preventing ‘repeat mistakes’ in war
Lecture
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Chinese calligraphy for everybody
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Internship and research
Many study programmes offer the opportunity to do an internship or research project, either as a compulsory part of the curriculum or to earn elective credits.
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Winter course in Athens: Migration at the Margins of Europe
Education
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Join the Columbia Summer Program on American Law in July 2023
Education
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Flash interview with alumna Kartica van der Zon
Did you know that PhD candidates are also alumni of your alma mater? High time to put a PhD alumna and her research in the spotlight. Besides, this month our UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
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Conference on topical issues in subsidy law a huge success
On 10 June 2022, a conference on topical issues in Dutch subsidy law was held at the Old Observatory building of Leiden University. With almost 90 enthusiastic participants, it was a huge success!
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Leiden archaeologists involved in grant for state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a €4.84 million NWO Large grant to set up a new state-of-the-art laboratory for isotope geochemistry. The new lab, the “Netherlands Isotope GEochemistry Laboratory” (NIGEL), will be built in the brand new VU Research Building at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.…
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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eLaw Conference: eLaw Symposium (20 June) and AI & Data Protection Conference (21 June) – Call for Abstracts
Conference
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Career Talk with Wim Klop
Debate, Career Talk
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Proposed decision by Minister Kuipers: Children’s heart surgery to end in Leiden
Ernst Kuipers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, announced on 13 February that he plans to remove children’s heart surgery from the Centre for Congenital Heart Defects Amsterdam - Leiden (CAHAL). He wants to concentrate this highly specialised care for children with congenital heart defects in…
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Successful 5th edition of the Negotiation Workshop
How to negotiate effectively to achieve a win-win deal for your client? What is the preferred communication style?
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Alex Geert Castermans in Het Parool on the right to swim topless
In Berlin, regulations have recently been amended to allow everyone to swim topless. In swimming pools in Amsterdam, women are still required to wear a top piece. Dutch newspaper Het Parool investigates whether Amsterdam swimmers also have the right to dive into the pool without wearing a top.
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Send in your thesis for the VNK x PAN thesis prize 2023! (deadline: 15 September)
Education
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Outcome report for 2nd Expert Workshop on the EU Proposed Regulation on Online Child Sexual Abuse published
Workshop brings multidisciplinary experts together to debate proposed detection technologies and their impact on fundamental rights.
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Matthias Haentjens appointed as Professor of Civil Law
Starting 1 January 2023, Matthias Haentjens has been appointed as Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University. His expertise lies in the field of property law, insolvency law, and private international law.
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Call for Papers: Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA2023)
Research
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Declining trust in government: the low-trust society
The Netherlands in September 2021 could be characterised as a low-trust society. Trust in the government has declined significantly in the past one-and-a-half years: from almost 70 percent in April 2020 to less than 30 percent in September 2021. There has also been a slight decrease in trust between…
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‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.
- Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art: Now and Next (July 28–August 11, 2023, apply by February 5)
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Caring Universities: Survey and tools for your mental well-being
Social
- Online event on entering job market by VNK (in Dutch, 18 January 2022)