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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Interview Anneke Koning: PhD research on transnational sexual exploitation of children
Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away from 'suspicious situations’ while turning a blind eye to the root causes of the problem themselves. Koning, who recently obtained her PhD on transnational sexual exploitation of children from Leiden…
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Een bolwerk van vrijheid: hoe IncLUsion vluchtelingstudenten opneemt in de academische gemeenschap
The incLUsion programme offers refugees who are not yet able to enrol as regular students the opportunity to take part in university education. Simon (IncLUsion secretary) and Sharon (exchange officer) reflect on the graduation and explain how the programme works.
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Flying pencil links Leiden and The Hague at launch of new degree programmes
It was a memorable start to September. While Leiden marked the opening of the academic year, The Hague celebrated the launch of three new degree programmes. Students were welcomed on a blue carpet rolled out at the entrance to the lecture halls.
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Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
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Faculty Board column: A new direction
The Faculty Council issued a favourable opinion regarding the Faculty Board’s proposal to withdraw the research master’s programmes in African Studies and Latin American Studies. This was not a proposal we were eager to put forward, but unfortunately it was necessary, in view of the problems we are…
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: 'Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’
It poured down when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, three months before 9/11. The now 46-year-old American fought in Iraq, did research in Afghanistan and stands in Leiden today, defending his dissertation on…
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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Timo Kos: ‘We want our buildings to be as open and safe as possible’
Speaking for the Executive Board, Timo Kos reflects on the university’s security policy and what lies ahead. ‘We want to keep our buildings open, but we also need to be able to guarantee the safety of everyone there. It’s a real balancing act.’
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Film screening: The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace in Aceh
Film screening
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A way forward for Syria: Signing Memorandum of Understanding on Missing Persons
Lecture and panel
- Lustrum Public Administration: Celebrate 40 Years of Public Administration at Leiden University!
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Summer tours
Arts and culture
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Panel Discussion: Arresting Suspects for International Crimes
Panel
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
- LUSTRUM 2025: Celebrating 15 Years of LUC
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A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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Upcoming Elections in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru: A New Turn to the Right?
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Embark on the Ultimate Adventure: Journey to Discovery Symposium!
Symposium
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Space for Academic Dialogue: on the concept of genocide, the right to protest and academic boycotts
Debate
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At the Ends of the Earth?
Symposium
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Visualizing Multispecies Resistance: Pan-Amazonian Indigenous Perspectives
Lecture
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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Lecture by Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren: 'Handing Over Responsibility'
Lecture
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Victims' Rights at A Crossroads
Conference, Seminar
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What Trump’s Return Means for Europe
Debate, Roundtable
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68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
Conference
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Material Legacies: The Post-Genocide Family Trees in Armenia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?
Debate, Roundtable
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European Strategic Dialogue lecture series: A New Beginning for UK-EU Relations
Lecture
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Plastic's Legacy: From Single-Use to Sustainable Solutions
Lecture, Studium Generale
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Interactive Pasts Conference 4
Conference
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Benjamin Ferencz Lecture Series: Prosecuting Russian Environmental War Crimes
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Civility, not opinions, was the real surprise in student debate
The student debate in Leiden’s Stadsgehoorzaal promised to be ‘the key to your vote’. That may sound hyperbolic, but what this well-attended debate did achieve was increased trust in politics. ‘They even let each other finish their sentences’, the flabbergasted students concluded at the end.
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.