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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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Taarique teaches career planning but doesn’t want students to plan their future too strictly: ‘Keep on experimenting’
In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Taarique Debidin thinks making contact with one another is more important than cramming knowledge. ‘I’d get no energy at all from being a formal lecturer.’
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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MIRD Students deepen their knowledge of EU and UN institutions in Brussels
From 13 to 15 October, first-year students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) travelled to Brussels, the heart of the European Union, to visit key EU and UN institutions.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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Royal decoration for Jo Hermans and Jan Schmidt
Two of our colleagues received a royal decoration. Professor Jo Hermans became “Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”, and Professor Jan Schmidt became “Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”. They receive the decoration as an acknowledgement for their extraordinary and selfless contribution to others…
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Symposium: Inzet van reviews na moord en doodslag in huiselijke kring
Conference
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Hall of Fame
Many of our staff and students have won an award, received a grant, obtained an academic fellowship for their quality or have been socially engaged due to their specific expertise. See below for an overview per year.
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Een korte geschiedenis van de Cornelii Scipiones
PhD defence
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Geef de keizer wat van de keizer is
Valedictory lecture
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Book presentation: De Kracht van Middenmacht
Lecture, Book presentation
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. A.C.M. Kroes and prof.dr. C.J. van Asperen
Valedictory lecture
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Van de Waal Lecture 2025: Shared heritage or cultural appropriation? The Iko-Schmutzer sculptures
Alumni event, Lezing
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Over experimenteren en reguleren: perspectieven op governance van data en algoritmen
Inaugural lecture
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Nominees bachelor's thesis prize Political Science 2024
The nominees for the IRO Thesis Prize 2024 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2024. Who authored the best thesis in Leiden University’s bachelor’s programme in Political Science?
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The Bank van Lening (1746) en Bank Courant (1752) in Batavia: Did Empire Create a Financial Revolution in Asia?
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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Van Marum Colloquium: Near-ambient pressure XPS/NEXAFS at Diamond Light Source
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Infrared Chemical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Microfluidic and Electrochemical Environments
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: On the Stability of Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: On the nature of the active site in heterogeneous catalysis – under reaction conditions
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Understanding Structure and Function in Molecular and Material Metal Oxides
Lecture
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Van Marum Mini-Symposium: Repel or Attract? Switchable Stickiness Through Electric Fields
Lecture
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Het algemeen belang van dwarsliggers: Een publieke verbeelding van leiderschap en innovatie binnen lokale overheden in digitale tijden
Inaugural lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Ticking the CO2 clock with molecular control. From fuels to complex molecules
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Surface Transformation and Activity in Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Streaming Current Method for Surface Charge Evaluation At Metal- Electrolyte Interface
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Advancing water electrolyzers: component development and lifetime degradation studies at TNO
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: NiOOH-Catalyzed Glucose and Other Organic Molecule Electrooxidations
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: The HER on Pt: Revisiting Tafel slope analyses when deducing reaction mechanisms
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Some observations on atom surface scattering, diffraction and diffusion
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Quantum Effects at Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Influence of Nanoscale Surface Topography and Chemical Modification on Electrical Double-Layer Interactions in Aqueous
Lecture
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…
- Webinar: Policy Challenges in Immigration, Non‑Standard Employment and Remote Work
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A Colonial and Material History of Astrophotography at Leiden Observatory, 1918-1960
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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‘Grassroots projects can help democracy’
Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues want to investigate how grassroots art projects manage to keep democracy alive.
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Studieavond: de complexiteit van diversiteit en inclusie bij de politie
Lecture
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Uit de schaduw: ethiek als fundament van inlichtingen en veiligheid
Inaugural lecture
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Book presentation: Van Bedaja tot Madonna: de Javaanse beeldsnijder Iko
Lecture, Book presentation
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Op voet van gelijkwaardigheid? Schaal en democratie in de Koninkrijksrelaties
Inaugural lecture
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Het op atomaire schaal afbeelden van chemische reacties op oppervlakken
Inaugural lecture
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Book presentation: In Staat van Beleg - Aeneas Tacticus
Lecture, Book presentation
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Van woorden naar daden: (doen) wat werkt in suïcidepreventie
Inaugural lecture
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Kwali-tijd in de Urologie: van eed tot AI
Inaugural lecture
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De affectieve plot: over de vroege romans van Marcel Möring
PhD defence
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Van Marum Mini-Symposium: EUV-induced hydrogen plasma, and risks for optics degradation and particle contamination control
Lecture
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Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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Pieter Slaman: German occupation lengthened mandatory education
Assistant professor and dual PhD candidate, Pieter Slaman writes in Binnenlands Bestuur about the fact that the German occupier lengthened the period of mandatory education in The Netherlands.