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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’
In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden told us about their experience.
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Blog Post | Towards an AI-based Counter-Disinformation Framework
In this blog post, Linda Slapakova discusses the various roles that AI plays in counter-disinformation efforts, the prevailing shortfalls of AI-based counter-disinformation tools and the technical, governance and regulatory barriers to their uptake, and how these could be addressed to foster the uptake…
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.
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Food Citizens? featured in Horizon Magazine
Horizon Magazine published about urban food systems.
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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’
If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only when we acknowledge these problems that we can resolve them, say Nadia Bouras and Tikho Ong, who are both experiential and academic experts. ‘Racism and…
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From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world
Conference
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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Panel discussion: Green Colonialism
Debate
- Volume 4 (2009)
- Volume 2 (2007)
- Volume 10 (2015)
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About the Programme
During the two-year History Research Master's programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct high quality research.
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Seminars
LCN2 hosts seminars on the last Friday of each month.
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Young people and children and the counter-smuggling project
Lecture
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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LED3 & LUCID Drug Discovery Meeting
Conference
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Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
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Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
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State’s obligations on Climate Change. A Latin American Perspective
Debate, Panel and public discussion
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Experience Day International Studies
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Endemic parasitic infections during pregnancy and their impact on clinical and immunological outcomes in Gabon
PhD defence
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Experience Day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Usutu too? Insights into vaccine development strategies for an emerging orthoflavivirus
PhD defence
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Symposium on Cyber Security in Humanitarian Organizations in The Netherlands
Symposium
- Orange the World 2025
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Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below
Lecture
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Policy and politics pre-analysis plan workshop
Workshop
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AI in the Public Sector: Not Just Plug and Play
Lecture
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Policy and politics pre-analysis plan workshop
Workshop
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Hans de VriesFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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How students incorporate sustainability in their master thesis
Many students are finishing their master thesis on sustainability this summer. In this blog, we reflect on their topics, approaches, and goals by highlighting theses from Governance of Sustainability, European Law, Global Archaeology, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Ecology, and…
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for children
A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short animated video was made by two German researchers with whom child psychologists Anke Klein and Annelieke Hagen are working. ‘With our translation, this…
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Life sentence for Mladić: mission accomplished?
The court has dismissed Ratko Mladić’s appeal and upheld his life sentence for genocide and war crimes. The verdict is one of Yugoslavia tribunal’s last. Mission accomplished?
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Two Leiden MOOCs in New York Magazine’s Top 21
‘Heritage Under Threat’ and ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ are among the 21 best MOOCs for a general public according to New York Magazine.
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Central Crisis Team: ‘It sometimes comes down to the last second’
It’s the middle of the academic year, but most of the University buildings are closed – something that hasn’t happened since the Second World War. Fortunately, after a week of intensive preparations, the teaching has moved online. How is the Central Crisis Team steering the University through the corona…
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants
Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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The operations of multinational businesses in conflict areas - towards a conceptual operational framework, the LEIDEN Protocol
Conference
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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IBL Spotlight - Tinde van Andel and Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Lecture