23 search results for “cleveringa” in the Student website
-
Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
-
Leiden Classics: Cleveringa’s protest
On 26 November 1940 Professor Cleveringa held his courageous speech protesting against the dismissal of his Jewish colleague, Professor Meijers. Cleveringa was arrested and the university was closed. Every year the university honours Cleveringa with a chair and meetings throughout the world.
-
Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
-
Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
-
Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski
On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collective memories.
-
Cleveringa lecture
Inaugural lecture
-
Lectures and activities
If you are looking for more challenge during your studies, you could broaden your knowledge by attending lectures and other activities. Events of this type are organised at university, faculty and study programme level.
-
University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
-
Academic calendar
The academic year officially commences on 1 September and ends on 31 August. On national holidays and compulsory closure dates, the university is closed and no lectures take place.
-
Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
-
Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture
-
Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students at Leiden University. He spoke about democracy, the war in Ukraine and the role of the Netherlands.
-
Moral leadership and courage from different perspectives
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
Health, security and cultural awareness when going abroad
Information session
-
The pathway forward
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
Destigmatizing the impact of trauma and PTSD
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
Re-envisioning leadership
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
The cost of leadership and moral courage
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
The repair of moral injury
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
Moral injury and intergenerational trauma
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
-
Roméo Dallaire on How a better world is possible 9 april
Lecture
-
Roméo Dallaire on How a better world is possible 9 april
Lecture
-
Ethical decision making and moral dilemmas
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series