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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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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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Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Daan Weggemans: 'Digital security is not just for specialists'
Within a single generation, the digital world has changed completely: from a technical niche for ‘nerds’ to a reality that affects everyone. Cyberattacks, data breaches and system failures can disrupt essential social processes. How can we ensure that our society remains digitally resilient?
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Affective Iconicity of Tonemes in Standard Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
- Leiden City World Walks
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Benjamin Ferencz Lecture Series: Prosecuting Russian Environmental War Crimes
Lecture
- Space for Academic Debate: Between safe and brave spaces: The role of universities in historical perspective
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2024-2025
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Celebrating and nurturing academic freedom. Presenting the report ‘Academic Freedom, a Leiden Line’
Presentation
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Award ceremony: Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 2024
Prijsuitreiking
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Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar 2023
Conference, Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS)
Symposium
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A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence from Shaoxing
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
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The morphological encoding of Mandarin compounds using EEG techniques
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Flash interview with alumnus and new Faculty Advisory Council member Yousef Yousef
Yousef Yousef is a 'self-made man'. But he first obtained his bachelor's degree in tax law in Leiden. 'A CEO needs to have a basic understanding of the principles of law', he says.
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
- Give your physical and mental health a boost during Student Well-being Week
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy
Bezoek
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Convenience and community: How Armenians entered and settled in Venice and Amsterdam, 1650-1730
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks