1,071 search results for “global transformations and governance challenges” in the Student website
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Spui Campus counts down to grand opening
Spui Campus, Leiden University’s fourth location in The Hague, will soon open its doors. The former V&D department store’s transformation into a university campus is becoming more visible by the week. Removal vans will soon be driving back and forth to move all the furniture there in time. The first…
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Five Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projects
Five consortia within the Perspectief programme that include Leiden researchers have received funding to start their research projects. These projects focus on (further) developing technological innovations, with societal and economic impact at their core.
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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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ESA officially adopts ARRAKIHS mission: Europe leads the exploration of the low surface brightness universe
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted ARRAKIHS as a scientific mission, confirming the target launch date of 2030. Matthieu Schaller is part of the Science Team: ‘I look forward to learning more about the dark part of our cosmos.’
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How can we properly measure the impact of disasters, attacks, and wars?
In zijn boek 'Chasing Events' onderzoekt Thijs van Dooremalen hoe we de impact van ingrijpende gebeurtenissen echt kunnen begrijpen. Hij laat zien dat traditionele vergelijkingen tekortschieten en pleit voor een nieuwe manier om de effecten van 'events' op lange termijn te analyseren.
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From Classroom to Museum: curating Leiden's archaeological legacy in Galleria
For decades, a collection of ancient Mediterranean ceramics and artefacts served as a teaching resource for Archaeology students at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Now, a selection of these objects has found a new audience at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, where Assistant Professor…
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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The Future of Human Rights
Roundtable
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Science, Sabotage and Subversion: How covert activity shapes the new international system
Lecture
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Marietje Schaake - Hans Franken Lecture
Lecture
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Developments in local politics research
Lecture
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Career Event for PhD Candidates & Postdocs
Course
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Grotius Dialogue: The U.S. - China Competition and the Law of the Sea
Grotius Dialogue
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Rites of Passage in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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ASCL Seminar: Cape Town: The Making of a Colonial City
Lecture
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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
Lecture
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Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below
Lecture
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Career Prep: Panel session and Meet & Greet with alumni (for Political science students)
Career and apply for jobs
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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RMO avond: Echoes of the Nile
Festival
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Literature and Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Zen Garden Student Well-being Week
- In Praise of Community Building - World Refugee Day 2025
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GIREP-EPEC 2025 Conference, Leiden
Conference
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Remembering through museums, objects, art and more: The heritage of psychiatric institutions and their patients
Faculty Lecture
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Treasures Festival
Festival
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The Future of Conventional Deterrence in Europe
Panel discussion
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Sunni constitutional theory in light of an early hadith about obedience
Lecture
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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The Vanishing Chinese Pharmacies: The Current Landscape and Social Identity of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan
Lecture, China Seminar
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Self-Determination in Very Small Places
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Stories of Confucius
Lecture, China Seminar
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Leiden Shorts x Leiden Law Faculty Screening
Festival
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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ASCL Seminar: The politics of net zero in Africa. Insights from ongoing work
Lecture
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Highlights of 2025 at Leiden Law School
2025 was a year to remember at our faculty. We celebrated our 450th anniversary, launched new degree programmes and welcomed many inspiring speakers, yet we also felt the weight of budget constraints. Our year in a nutshell:
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Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’
Jonathan Powell came to Leiden from England to conduct research into the role of women in early modern court cases. In addition to all kinds of exciting documents, he also discovered the biscuits from the Water & Bloem bakery and the wild flowers at the Groenesteeg cemetery.
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From pioneer to leading institution: 40 years of the Institute of Air and Space Law
What started as pioneering work, has evolved over decades to become a renowned institute in 2025 with an internationally acclaimed master's programme. 'Almost everyone involved in the aviation and space sector knows us in Leiden.'
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Meijerslezing en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
Meijerslezing, Meijersprijzen en Van Wersch springplankprijs en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
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Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations. This event will examine how historical and political dynamics influence reparative justice…
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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A selection from the year 2021 according to the FGGA Faculty Board & Office
What was the year like for the FGGA faculty board & office? A number of departments share what 2021 was like for them.