187 search results for “war in ukraine” in the Student website
-
‘Let’s try not to lose sight of each other’ – Interview with Annetje Ottow
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experiencing group pressure.
-
Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
-
Beatriz Santiago Belmonte
Faculty of Humanities
-
Silvia D'Amato
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
-
The Europaeum: Challenges to European Security
Conference
-
Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.
-
Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
-
Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee backgrounds were eager to study at Leiden University. How does the University help young people from various backgrounds find their way around the Dutch…
-
Antoaneta Dimitrova
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
-
Anneleen van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Eamon Aloyo
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
-
Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
-
Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the European Parliament asked Leiden legal scholar Evelien Campfens. Her advice: develop a registration system, issue art with a ‘passport’ and set up a European…
-
Apply for the Una Europa Student Congress 2024 in Berlin
Social
-
Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
-
William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
-
80th anniversary of United Nations War Crimes Commission-its legacy and relevance
Conference
-
Leiden University during the Second World War
Event
-
Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
-
Juan Masullo Jimenez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Intervening in International Justice: Third States and Ukraine v. Russia
Conference
-
The Rediscovery, Foundations, and Future of the Law of Transforming War into Peace’
Jus post bellum, the body of laws and norms governing the transition from armed conflict to peace, has emerged as a crucial issue for international law scholars, governments, and all concerned with building a just and sustainable peace. The Jus Post Bellum Project, funded by the NWO and hosted by the…
-
Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
-
Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
-
Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’
The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-part course is meant primarily for people who are in contact with refugees from Ukraine.
-
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…
-
Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products . In search of optimal enforcement - 20/21 June 2022
Education, Research
-
Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
-
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.
-
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
-
Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
-
Europaeum - Call for Applications, September 2023
Education
-
CEU Praesidium Libertatis Scholarship
Master
-
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 Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
-
Open to Dutch and international students and academic staff: Study tour to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Social
-
Amount
Tuition fee amounts
-
How do we engage with experiences of war and displacement within our university community
Roundtable discussion
-
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.
-
61st Leiden-London Meeting on the EU’s strategic autonomy
On Saturday 25 June, the Europa Institute of Leiden University hosted the 61st Leiden-London Meeting, an annual event organized jointly by the Europa Institute and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). This year’s meeting had “Interdependence, cooperation and strategic…
-
Europaeum Summer School: The Politics of Heritage (Leuven)
Education
-
Ralph Kijk in de Vegte
Administratief Shared Service Centre