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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’
His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy in the twentieth century. An NWO XS grant will enable him to make a start on this.
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
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Patchwork of police checks across Schengen area
The Schengen countries officially abolished border controls, but checks actually still exist. Maartje van der Woude has written a book about these veiled border controls: ‘The danger is that Schengen will have lots of borders, just not visible ones.’
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Educated Muslim Women in a Non-Muslim World: Navigating Identities in Sendai, Japan
PhD defence
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The Sky is Made of Lava: How lava worlds reveal their interiors through their atmospheres
PhD defence
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UK and the EU: what shared interests in a digitised and geopolitical world?
Debate
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and Democracy: Essays on the Fiscal Social Contract in a Globalised World
PhD defence
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The US on the World: The Socio-Ecological Impacts of America’s Global Ascendancy
Inaugural lecture
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Safety and performance of high-risk medical devices: the role of real- world data
PhD defence
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Faster X-ray Computed Tomography in Real-World Dynamic Applications
PhD defence
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Emotions in the social world: Recognition, expression, and alignment across the lifespan
PhD defence
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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From Dialectology to Dialectometry 2025
Weekly Workshop
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger
A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the situation in Niger is deteriorating rapidly. A military coup has thrown the country into turmoil, partly aided by social media.
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Expertisemiddag AI in het taalonderwijs
Lecture
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’
Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexandra Prégent is exploring.
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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The Authenticity Ouroboros
Register for Workshop
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Leiden Reflections: Art, Creativity and AI
Alumni event, Lezing
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The Power of Social Media Networks: Scientific research on the entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa
Conference, 2-day Workshop
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The use of GenAI as a teaching tool
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Tracing Expertise in Politics: A Digital History of Technocracy in the Dutch House of Representatives, 1917-1994
Lecture
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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FGGA experts on freedom: 'We are only truly free when everyone feels free'
On 5 May, we celebrate the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and the fact that we have been able to live in freedom ever since. But what does freedom mean, and how does it relate to our safety? Various FGGA experts draw connections with their own fields of expertise.
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No moderation in tone at Trump's inauguration
The brand-new American President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on 20 January. There was little sign of conciliation and he was liberal with the truth, in the opinion of a number of Leiden academics. One professor is more positive: 'He wants to take on radical Islam.'
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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and Biden
Few have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was least worst. What do psychologist Willem van der Does, historian Andrew Gawthorpe and policy science scholar Brandon Zicha make of the debate?
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Adriaan BednerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mitra BaratchiFaculty of Science
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Ton LiefaardFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculty of Archaeology
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Ellen de BruijnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Eduard Fosch VillarongaFaculty of Law
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Alan SearsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
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Mariëlle BruningFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bleda DüringFaculty of Archaeology
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Michiel OttoFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid