1,113 search results for “shaping” in the Staff website
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Former Ministers: ‘It is like jumping aboard an extremely fast-moving train’
During an inspiring meeting at the Health Campus The Hague on 2 April, Jan Anthonie Bruijn and Jet Bussemaker reflected on their experiences in politics and looked ahead to the future of Dutch healthcare.
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’
Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have come up with tips and guidelines for interview committees that align with the new system of recognition and rewards.
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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From assignment to action plan: students take on the housing crisis in The Hague
The Hague has positioned itself as a vibrant student city, and with its growing student population is well on its way to becoming one. But the student housing market is struggling to keep pace.
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New clue to severe MS progression: ‘Overloaded cleanup cells’ in the brain
Researcher Daan van der Vliet, together with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Leiden University and Utrecht University, has discovered an important mechanism that may be linked to severe cases of multiple sclerosis (MS): the brain contains large numbers of abnormal immune…
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Inventors with a nose for technology
Amidst the lathes and welding machines of the Fine Mechanics Department, Emiel Wiegers is working concentratedly on a metal cylinder. He and his colleagues design and construct components for researchers' set-ups. ‘We are a bunch of inventors who enjoy helping the researchers in our Faculty.’
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Climate solutions, fragile systems: who really pays the price?
Climate action is often framed as urgent and necessary. But on the ground, it can also unsettle lives in unexpected ways. LUC researcher Bernardo Almeida explores in his VENI research, sponsored by NWO, what happens on land rights of vulnerable groups when climate responses meet fragile governance s…
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Anthropology graduate launches collaborative culture magazine
Cultural Anthropology students in Leiden are encouraged to think creatively and explore different ways of sharing knowledge, such as by producing zines. CADS graduate Dorota Olsavska combined her anthropological skills with her love for discovering little-known stories and writing, and earlier this…
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Bakels Fund Grant for research into landscape use on Mallorca
Letty ten Harkel has received a Bakels Fund grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF) for a two-year research programme at the archaeological site of Son Sard on Mallorca. The grant will enable her team to carry out geochemical and geomorphological research into the development and use of the landscape…
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Call for Papers: Peace Movements - A Global History
From the First World War until the height of the Cold War, actors from the decolonizing world sought to build connections with international peace movements. These efforts produced new networks and practices of solidarity while also exposing tensions over the centrality of decolonization in global struggles…
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LeidenGlobal Dialogues - Egyptian Mummified Remains in Museums
Lecture
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Wet felting workshop: design your own case or bag
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Book Launch: The Boundaries of Criminalisation
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Criminal Liability of Pilots in Aviation Accident Cases
PhD defence
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Emergence of Linguistic Universals in Neural Agents via Artificial Language Learning and Communication
PhD defence
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Peace, Democracy, and Media Conference 2025
Conference, Just Peace Festival
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Anthropogenic Landscapes? Modelling The Role of Hunter-Gatherers in Interglacial Ecosystems in Europe
PhD defence
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AI for HR
Course, Training session
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Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
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Full-day International Workshop: Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Medicine. From Taiwan’s Experiences to Global Practice
Full-day International Workshop
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Agents of Change?
PhD defence
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Iran at a Crossroads: Protest, Repression, and Europe’s Response
Debate
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NEXT GEN: The Hague Security Conference
Conference
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Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba
Lecture, Book talk
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Reconfiguring Human–Animal Relations in Bhutan and the Himalayan Buddhist World
Lecture, CADS Research Seminar
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BAMBOO Night - All Things Sustainability
Lecture, Pint of Science
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OSCoffee: From Paywalls to Precedent - Open Science for Law
Lecture
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Philosophical Explorations: What is a Good Life?
Lecture
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Affective Iconicity of Tonemes in Standard Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Blue Diversity: Drinking Water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850
Lecture, Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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When did Bureaucrats become “Christian"? Religious Identity as a lens for the Social and Economic backgrounds of Administrators during the Umayyad
Middle East Studies Lecture
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GoS Graduate & Student event
Alumni event
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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FGGA experts on freedom: 'We are only truly free when everyone feels free'
On 5 May, we celebrate the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and the fact that we have been able to live in freedom ever since. But what does freedom mean, and how does it relate to our safety? Various FGGA experts draw connections with their own fields of expertise.
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world
Conference
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The Authenticity Ouroboros
Register for Workshop
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LINE Mini-symposium on Happiness & Enthusiasm
Lecture
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All Roads Lead to Rome? New Reflections on Ecology and Mobility in the Roman Empire
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Teaching for Sustainable Tomorrows: A Climate Change Education Workshop
Study information, Workshop
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Open Mic: Pitch Your Research in Relation to Cultural Heritage (with the Faculty of Law)
Open Mic
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Race and Ethnicity in Dutch Academia
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Workshop about diversity biases of AI systems in the workplace
Course
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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LeidenGlobal Dialogues - Indigo: Threads of Trade, Culture & Change
Lecture
- Workshop: 'Emotional landscapes of migration, violences and resistance in the Americas'
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Government Policies and Scientific Collaboration symposium
Conference
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Chinese Labor Migration to the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, China Seminar
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The Geopolitics of Japan: 2025
Debate, BASIS The Hague, Universiteit Leiden
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Beyond the Great-Power Clash: ASEAN’s Quiet Power in the Indo-Pacific
Lecture and book presentation