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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’
‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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10th Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Season of Rains, Africa in the World Today
Lecture
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland.” Gawron is a historian and professor of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a noted expert…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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These professors also stood up for their Jewish colleagues
With his speech in protest against the sacking of his Jewish colleague, Rudolph Cleveringa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, became the foremost symbol for Leiden’s resistance against the Nazis. But there are also other brave professors who should not be forgotten: what are the stories of Ben Telders, Ton…
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Lecture, Keynote Lectures
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3 October University: big science for small people
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning something like, ‘You’re never too young to learn’), this year’s 3 October University was especially for children. Many parents came with their offspring to…
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
Conference
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Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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The story behind the war victims
Herta Mohr was a promising Egyptologist who died in Bergen-Belsen. Lawyer Amandus Wolfsbergen died in Auschwitz, without knowing that the his work would continue to be a respected authority for many years. Thanks to research by PhD candidate Adriënne Baars, some more personal information has been added…
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Field of honour full of life
The four thousand war victims buried at the Netherlands Field of Honour at Loenen include a number of Leiden students who were in the Resistance. The War Graves Foundation is looking for volunteers to take part in a special event to honour the deceased.
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…
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Sunni constitutional theory in light of an early hadith about obedience
Lecture
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The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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Indonesian resistance hero and Leiden student Irawan Soejono is given a face
To mark its 75th anniversary, the Netherlands War Graves Foundation is publishing a portrait of a war victim every week this year. On 24 January the drawing of Irawan Soejono, a Leiden student and Indonesian resistance member, was unveiled at the Groenesteeg cemetery in Leiden, the place where Soejono…
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How do our language rules come about?
Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.
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Dr. Larik presents Brexit research at 10th Anniversary CLEER Conference
On 6 and 7 December, the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), which is hosted by the T.M.C. Asser Institute, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a conference on
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
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Prudent Resistance: Hezbollah's Endurance in a Hostile World
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Symposium: Resilience and Delinquency in a Digital World
Conference, Symposium
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Negotiating Europeanness: Race, Class, and Culture in the Colonial World
Conference, Workshop
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Trading Responsibility: Navigating national burdens in a globalized world
PhD defence
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Clinical features of GIST real-world setting
PhD defence
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Somayeh DjafariFaculty of Law
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Jonathan PriceFaculty of Law
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Merlijn van WeerdFaculty of Science
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Marlieke ErnstFaculty of Humanities
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Helena VrabecFaculty of Law
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Daniel ValeFaculty of Law
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Lieke FeenstraFaculty of Law
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Inga van Doornmalen
Faculty of Law
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Hanneke LankveldFaculty of Law
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Danny MekicFaculty of Law
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Christine TremblayFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Camille LefebvreFaculty of Law
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Eva SchmidtFaculty of Law
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Itai SiegelFaculty of Law
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Vera Wheni SetijawatiFaculty of Law
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Esteban SzmulewiczFaculty of Law