Lecture, European Union Seminar

Please join us for our next LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Keerthi Sridharan Vaidehi (PhD candidate) on Tuesday, 13 February 2024 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CET). In this talk, I will introduce Conversation Analysis (CA), a transcription-based analytic model for spontaneous speech in audiovisual settings.…

Margaret Thatcher’s “I want my money back”, Mark Rutte’s “Not a cent to the Greeks” and Mario Draghi’s “Whatever it takes”: many key moments in the history of European integration have been shaped by debates about money. The EU is now facing some existential questions that will decide its future, and…

Organised in association with NIMAR. The change in the meaning of Haratin (black Moroccans) into the synonym of “ex-slaves” occurred with Sultan Mawlay Isma‘il’s project (1672–1727) to create a royal army by enslaving all black people in Morocco either by purchasing those who were already “slaves” or…

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This workshop brings together scholars trained in different disciplines who have been doing research on Indigenous collections histories, combining botanical, historical, archaeological, anthropological, and art-practice approaches in a collaborative framework. In doing so, they are pursuing a similar…

European integration opens up many opportunities for individual citizens, but can also create challenges for the welfare systems of European member states. We have all heard the Dutch government’s complaints about having to pay for the education of international students, Spanish government’s complaints…

Eurosceptics love to complain about the wastefulness of the European bureaucratic machinery, its lack of transparency and democratic accountability. Needless to say, a string of recent scandals from Brussels, from Qatargate to the secrecy around COVID-19 vaccine purchases only strengthens the arguments…

The European Commission’s proposal for a Directive to improve working conditions for platform workers comes at a time of intense academic, legal and political debate about the platform economy. Labour platforms emphasise their novelty and exceptionalism, which have placed them comfortably outside existing…

The last enlargement of the EU happened 10 years ago, when a single country (Croatia) became member of the EU. Since then, the EU has lost one member, and the progress towards accession of the other candidate and potential candidate countries has been glacial, blocked by internal and external ‘enlargement…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe and is causing severe human suffering. So is the war in Gaza. But history has shown that in times like these, the EU has proved its worth. For Sweden, solidarity within the EU is key. And Sweden’s NATO membership on 7 March will be a cornerstone…

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The geopolitical landscape is shifting fast, war has returned to Europe, China’s sphere of influence is expanding, and international multilateral structures are being challenged. What does this mean for a British diplomat posted to The Hague? The city of International Peace and Justice plays a pivotal…

The European Green Deal was launched in 2020 with a great promise: to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Since then, however, the EU’s climate ambitions have been tested by rising energy prices, geopolitical concerns, domestic political opposition, and uncertain finances. The challenge…

European defence cooperation has a rocky past: though it was always part of the European integration efforts, it saw little institutional integration within the EU, partly due to reluctance to duplicate existing structures under NATO, and partly due to the member states’ wariness of deeper integration.…

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Robert Menasse talks with NRC critic Michel Krielaars about his new EU novel “The Enlargement”.

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Lecture, European Union Seminar

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Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar

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How do conflicts escalate? Escalation and the existence of an escalation ladder, which denotes conflicts reaching ever increasing levels of intensity, are often used terms but have been little developed academically. Beyond the original context of the Cold War where these ideas originated, escalation…

Lecture, European Union Seminar / CHEI Seminar

Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People

The emergence of social media and the "digital literary sphere" provide amateur readers numerous opportunities to write about their reading experiences and to connect with other readers across national borders, political positions, and literary preferences. This talk focuses on transregional ‘affective…

Duration documentary: 77 min., followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film makers of +/- 25 min. Language: English, Dutch, and Japanese spoken. English subtitles. Together with Bioscopen Leiden, Studium Generale presents Neutrino. Neutrino is a poetic-philosophical documentary showing the…

Gaza. Palestine. Israel. War. Conflict. Context. Justice. Peace. Freedom. International Law. Solidarity. Protests.

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After the first public screening in Paris in 1895, when did the cinematograph arrive in Istanbul? Where and by whom were the first cinema screenings held? How did the Ottoman Palace and Ottoman Society react to the emergence of the new medium at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the…

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Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture