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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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New start-up company: Leiden astronomers develop a technology to detect gas leaks
Helping industry to spot dangerous and climate-harming gas leaks faster, cheaper, and more reliably than today’s tools: that's what Leiden University and BigCircle Ventures set out do in a new spin-off company.
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Mosquitos in town: how to prevent disease risk (and still green your city)
In cities, parks take the blame for mosquito problems. However, the real issue is usually a few streets away. Drains and standing rainwater create ideal breeding grounds for larvae. As a result, controlling adult mosquitoes in parks makes little sense, says environmental scientist Louie Krol in his…
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PhD research Willeke Mulder
How do you detect life on a planet light years away? During her PhD research, astronomer Willeke Mulder worked on an instrument to detect such signals – culminating in an experiment from a hot air balloon.
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Revolution in Archaeology: Virtual Excavation with AI iDig
The days of an archaeologist studying soil traces with a shovel in hand seem to be numbered. Digital archaeologists will soon launch the first version of software capable of carrying out a virtual excavation.
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Never home alone: which species share your house (unwanted or not)?
From spiders in the bathroom to mice in the kitchen, we share our homes with far more species than we realise (whether we like it or not). Researchers at Leiden University and the University of Helsinki are collecting stories about how people live alongside these non-human housemates.
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No ordinary sea: who governs the Strait of Hormuz?
Which law governs the Strait of Hormuz? Under international law, both Iran and the US are expected to comply with the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. In practice, the situation is more complicated, explains maritime law expert Hilde Woker.
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Owada keynote Fatou Bensouda on international justice: ‘We need courageous leadership’
Are international courts effective? Dr Fatou Bensouda, a former Lead Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC), will discuss this issue during her lecture at the Owada Symposium 2025. The ICC’s efficacy depends on the actions of its member states, she says.
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Wednesday 25 March – a Wednesday in overdrive
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. On March 25, he has a busy day.
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Shift in scientific consensus about demise of Neanderthals
It is still unclear how the Neanderthals died out. For long, one theory seemed most likely: the emergence of the highly intelligent Homo sapiens, or modern humans. This competition hypothesis is no longer the dominant theory among scientists, research among archaeologists and anthropologists has shown.…
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Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programme
Research
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From lockdown to the lab: Leiden PhD researcher develops ‘decoy molecule’ to slow down coronavirus
While the Netherlands was in lockdown because of the coronavirus, PhD candidate Koen Rijpkema began his research into the same virus. In the lab, he developed molecules that can inhibit an important viral enzyme.
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What do sushi, climbing and smoking having in common? How we talk about risk.
Next week, Sara Perlstein will defend her PhD on risk talk: the everyday conversations we have about risks with people close to us. From eating sushi to climbing or smoking, these informal talks shape how we deal with danger in other ways than official health advice does.
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94% of cyber incidents are human error - CSM student Sofian teaches kids how to prevent that
Cybersecurity doesn’t start with your first job – it starts with your first phone. According to Sofian Fesenko, a student of Crisis and Security Management (CSM), digital resilience needs to be built from a young age. That’s why he developed an educational card game to raise children’s awareness of…
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From nanoscale to whole organism: at the Cell Observatory, researchers study life in detail
About forty microscopes, various laboratories, and some 15,000 zebrafish: that’s Sylvia le Dévédec's workplace. She is one of the managers of the Leiden Cell Observatory, a unique facility accessible to all researchers.
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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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toogdag 2024 kennisdeling onderzoek faculteitsbreed
Toogdag 2024 onderzoek kennisdelen
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Advancing Explanatory and Tonal Dialectometry
PhD defence
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Survival of the Littlest: Improving Preterm Outcomes through Metabolomics and Microsampling
PhD defence
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Lorentz Lecture: Working towards evidence-based care for aging transgender and non-binary people
Lecture
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Four San Performers in Victorian Britain at a Time of Death: A Global Microhistory between Britain and South Africa
Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar
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Investigating lipid formulations for efficient RNA delivery using zebrafish models
PhD defence
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Criminal Liability of Pilots in Aviation Accident Cases
PhD defence
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Lunch lecture Michele Deitch: What’s going on in US prisons?
Lecture
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Active learning
Didactics
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Trustworthy Anomaly Detection for Smart Manufacturing
PhD defence
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The Scholar Who Robbed the Sages
Lecture, China Seminar
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Open Science Week at Archaeology: Let's talk about publishing
Festival
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Anthropogenic Landscapes? Modelling The Role of Hunter-Gatherers in Interglacial Ecosystems in Europe
PhD defence
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Strongly interacting electrons in Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and Twisted Bilayer Graphene
PhD defence
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Burnout First-aid Kit
Personal development, Working effectively
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Compliments in Talk Shows in France and Iran
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
- Remembering Sabine (Sabine Luning)
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OSCoffee: Do we need some kind of national observatory for consultation projects?
Lecture
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Language Barriers in Healthcare Settings: A Case for Machine Translation Literacy
Course
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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Knowledge Café LHSC - In Conversation with the Neighborhood #HoeDan?
Knowledge Café
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Times, They Are A Changin’: Multiple, Diverging, and Conjoining Temporalities in Sport for Development and Peace
CADS Research Seminar
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Agents of Change?
PhD defence
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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A critical look at NATO, Europe, and nuclear strategy
Lecture
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Communicating your PhD research
Communication
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Dissent into Disaster: Reciprocity as Protest in Karachi, Pakistan
CADS Research Seminar
- The 'hybridisation' of radicalisation its implications for radicalisation research and the prevention of violent extremism.