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What is the future of translation software within the university?
Is there a place for machine translation engines like Google Translate within the Faculty of Humanities? Associate professor Lettie Dorst’s new educational website aims to help students and teachers find an answer to this question. ‘The use of AI tools, such as Bing and ChatGPT, shouldn’t be seen as…
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From a bold e-mail to a dream internship: take the initiative!
Imagine: you walk into a museum, see something that catches your eye and before you know it, you have an internship. This is what happened to history student Davey Verhoeven, who went on to work on the exhibition about the unique Japanese folding screen by Kawahara Keiga (approx. 1786 – approx. 1860)…
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Heritage institutions for everyone
How can heritage institutions make their organisations, collections and exhibitions more inclusive and accessible? University lecturer Eliza Steinbock will investigate this using a NWO Smart Culture grant.
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Rizal ShidiqFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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AI, Peace, Justice and Security in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
The AI research in the area of peace, justice and security at each of the three universities in Zuid-Holland complements the AI research being performed by the other two. Three researchers explain. Part one in a series of five about themes that the three universities’ AI research covers.
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'
The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. Of Moroccan migrant workers, she says, 'In the seventies the predominant idea was that everyone had the right to their own culture and religion. That's…
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Is politics boring and far removed from you?
On 22 May, the Dutch House of Representatives invited one hundred citizens to pose critical questions regarding the Ministries’ annual reports. This followed on from the annual ‘Accountability Day’. Caspar van den Berg, Associate Professor of Public Administration, helped think about how citizens could…
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Eight new MOOCs
This autumn Leiden University is launching eight new MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are available free to the general public. You can follow courses on the theory of evolution, mindfulness, political economy, international law, music, cultural heritage or archaeology.
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Sports and data analytics: discovering the unknown known
The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joost Kok explained what data analytics can teach us about sports.
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Dating with electrodes struck to your skin
Four thousand visitors immersed themselves in art and science during Leiden's Night of Art and Science on 17 September. They could choose from dozens of lectures, experiments, interactive events and a lot of art.
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Dr. Antoaneta Dimitrova has been appointed as professor Comparative Governance
The Executive Board has decided to appoint Dr. Antoaneta Dimitrova as Professor Comparative Governance within the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, starting on 1 September 2017.
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Annual Oriental Numismatic Society Meeting in Leiden
Conference
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Children's Rights Moot Court
The bi-annual Children’s Rights Moot Court (CRM), organised by the Department of Child Law in partnership with Baker McKenzie, was initiated by Leiden Law School in 2014 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Natascha van der ZwanFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Ahmad Nuril HudaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte FikkersFaculty of Humanities
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Lieske HuitsFaculty of Humanities
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Reinier BaarsenFaculty of Humanities
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Astrid Van WeyenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i VilasecaFaculty of Humanities
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Clodagh MurphyFaculty of Humanities
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Irene Van EldereFaculty of Humanities
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Corine GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Leon HilbertFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gepco de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel FletcherFaculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities