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This Week's Discoveries | 3 March 2020
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- Opening ceremony academic year Leiden Law School 2020-2021
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Opening of the academic year 2020-2021
Conference
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
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LUC The Hague: Summer Graduation Ceremony - Class of 2020
Graduation Ceremony
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This Week’s Discoveries | 28 January 2020
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Announcement winner C.J. Kok Jury Award 2020
Festival, Uitreiking
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The Transatlantic Era 1989-2020: A Textbook Project
Seminar
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2020 Online
Arts and Culture, Middle Eastern Culture Market
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CANCELED This Week's Discoveries | 30 June 2020
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Opening Academic Year 2020-2021 - Faculty of Science
Lecture
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Announcement winner C.J. Kok Public Award 2020
Festival, Uitreiking
- Faculty opening of the academic year 2020-2021 Humanities
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Finding and arranging
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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Internships, research, fieldwork, summer schools and more
internship, research project, fieldwork, summer school, conference, excursion, field trip, thesis
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Annetje Ottow back in Leiden
Annetje Ottow is the first female president of the Executive Board of Leiden University, which means a return to her Alma mater.
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International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM 2020)
Conference
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Take part in the Student Research Mobility Programme (STREAM) at a university abroad
Research
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history, will give an online lecture about forgotten stories from the Second World War. Via Open Jewish Homes, moving stories can be heard online of Jewish alumni.…
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Dead elephant was a feast for the entire neighbourhood
Former archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete skeleton of an extinct Eurasian straight-tusked elephant. The remains show that our ancestors enjoyed the odd elephant steak. But they weren’t the only ones…
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Italian nurse acquitted of murder after statistical analysis
Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali was arrested and convicted of murdering two hospital patients in 2014. Her case attracted the attention of Leiden statistician Richard Gill. After his investigation, together with an Italian colleague, Poggiali was acquitted last autumn. Together with fellow statisticians,…
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Arianna Pranger: ‘I pack as much creativity as possible into my teaching’
Arianna Pranger has lost her heart to teaching. A senior lecturer on the master’s programme in Pharmacy, she won the LUS Teaching Prize 2020. The programme trains students to be pharmacists.
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Shift in scientific consensus about demise of Neanderthals
It is still unclear how the Neanderthals died out. For long, one theory seemed most likely: the emergence of the highly intelligent Homo sapiens, or modern humans. This competition hypothesis is no longer the dominant theory among scientists, research among archaeologists and anthropologists has shown.…
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Seven top European universities join forces to improve citizens' well-being
The Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors from seven of Europe’s leading universities met in Köln (Germany) to launch their shared vision for improving European citizens’ quality of life by creating a European University for Well-Being.
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CANCELLED: Lost in Language (T.W.I.S.T. Conference 2020)
Conference
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2020 Conference on Cyber Norms | Moving Forward: Fragmentation, Polarization and Hybridity in Cyberspace
Conference
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Opening Lecture academic year LUCSoR 2020-2021: Een pleidooi voor bescheidenheid (Dutch)
Conference
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New Year's Reception 2020 and award ceremony yearly prizes Faculty of Science
Festival, Reception
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Releasing tension by dancing with balls | English spoken
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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International Studies' opening lecture of the academic year 2020-2021
Lecture
- LUC The Hague: A Farewell Message
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‘Right now, it's an enormous achievement just to pass a subject'
When the corona epidemic broke out, Nuno Atalaia, a teacher of Portuguese, ‘democratised’ his lectures. He is one of the three nominees for the LUS Teaching Prize. What is it about this approach that appeals to students?
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Creative movement practices (intermediate/advanced)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Contemporary movement practices (mixed level)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Where?
Study abroad: where and when?
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Parties
Students can stand as candidates during university elections via a party. On this page, the student parties present themselves.
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Cancelled: International Women’s Day 2020: Film Screening & Discussion with Oxfam Novib
Lecture
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Graduation ceremonies Advanced Master's Leiden Law School 2020
Graduation ceremony
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen
Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeolithic sites situated on the edges of the former opencast lignite mine. Now, a collaboration of archaeologists from University of Tübingen and the Lower…
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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Unique opportunity to exchange ideas with Professor Rosemary Joyce
Research
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‘We will offer a warm welcome to our students, both in person and online’
The University buildings are partially reopening to students. And first-years will be able to discover real-life Leiden or The Hague during the introduction weeks this summer. Vice-Rector Hester Bijl describes what will be possible once more at the ‘one-and-a-half-metre university’. ‘We want to provide…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Meijers prizes and thesis prizes awarded at New Year’s event
On Tuesday 12 January 2021, the annual Meijers prizes and thesis prizes were awarded at the online New Year’s event broadcast from the Old Observatory.
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Rie and her Gentlemen
Rie Schild-de Groen watched over ‘her’ Gentlemen, the residents of the ‘t Heerenhoeckje (Gentlemen’s Corner) Minerva house at Rapenburg 110, like a mother hen for 70 years. She was moved by the stories of residents who had lost loved ones to cancer. Jaap Koster and a few other former housemates helped…
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Bibi Dumon Tak new writer-in-residence
Author Bibi Dumon Tak will be the new writer-in-residence at Leiden University from autumn 2020.
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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press
The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s specialization Visual Ethnography has supported many talented individuals to produce inspiring films. About 70 master’s thesis films of the past 8 years…
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…