In the media
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Century-old electrochemistry law gets update 19 January 2022The Gouy-Chapman theory describes what happens near an electrode when it is in contact with a salt solution, but this description does not match real...
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Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 - Online Exhibition 18 January 2022Starting January 18, the online exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 can be viewed via the UBL website. The exhibition i...
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Exhibition photographic oeuvre of world traveller Alexine Tinne 25 November 2021In collaboration with the The Hague Historical Museum and photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is the first to present a...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list 08 October 2021The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and co...
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James Bond, the cultural phenomenon - a reading list 30 September 2021With the creation of James Bond, author Ian Fleming laid the foundation for a sprawling media franchise. Since the first novel appeared in 1953, Bond ...
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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press 28 July 2021The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s spe...
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Film by Visual Ethnography alumna selected for the RAI Film Festival 19 March 2021'Don’t Let the sunny weather fool you' a film made by Visual Ethnography alumna Guusje Meeuwissen has been selected for the RAI film festival in Londo...
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Coming-out day – A reading list 11 October 2020In the past few decades, LGBTQ+ acceptance has come a long way. Coming out, however, is still a difficult experience for many people on a personal lev...
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 08 October 2020The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne...
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Dimiter Toshkov on the Salem Radio Network in the US over the European policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic 06 May 2020‘European countries with higher trust and more freedoms were more reluctant to impose restrictive measures to handle the coronavirus. But it seems tha...
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Rigidity affects immune responses 24 March 2020The immune system is tasked with protecting the host against infectious agents, however it must do so without exerting exuberant immune responses that...
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Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections 18 December 2019Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library
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Panji – Diponegoro – La Galigo Exhibition UNESCO Memory of the World 23 May 2019The Panji manuscripts, Prince Diponegoro’s autobiography, and the La Galigo epic poems are some of the most remarkable literary works from Southeast A...
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On the 2nd of May, AMT & LIAS will host a debate and roundtable: India Votes 2019: National, Regional and Global Reverberations 15 April 2019Between April and May 2019, 900 million Indians will vote in a seven-phase mega-event that will elect 543 members to the Lok Sabha (lower house) of th...
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Book Presentation - Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen 25 March 2019On Wednesday 27 March, 17.00 - 18.30, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen will present their book: 'The Bookshop of the World. Searching for marke...