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Blog Post | Nationals in Crisis and Diplomacy's Domestic Communication Challenge
All countries have turned into a global no-go zone and in the Covid-19 crisis flying citizens back home is an unprecedented logistical operation. More hidden from view is that helping people is one thing, but getting through to an elusive public with the objective of inducing behavioural change, is…
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Blog Post | Bridging the Gap: Time for an EU-NATO Strategic Dialogue on Defense Tech
To stay secure, the transatlantic community must take on emerging and disruptive technologies together.
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Ratna Saptari retires: anthropologist dedicated herself with heart and soul to Indonesian workers' and human rights
Ratna Saptari is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has always been involved with issues of human rights and Indonesian workers' rights. This August she retired. But she won't sit still. She continues her voluntary work and wants to…
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia
The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of village governance and leadership in the coming years.
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Leiden Anthropologists Reflect on the COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak raises fundamental questions about the politics and narratives of crisis, as well as about our “ordinary” everyday lives and sociality. Irene Moretti and Annemarie Samuels introduce a collection of blogposts of Leiden Anthropologists reflecting on the pandemic and offer a set…
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Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. The article, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and…
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Blog Post | The Diplomatic Elite, the People at Home and Democratic Renewal
‘Foreign policy’ may seem to the general public to be merely an official response to problems entering the nation from across the border. Yet the political reach of diplomacy has extended, and diplomats will have to find ways to engage more with home citizens, including those who feel sidelined and…
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Leiden lifestyle as inspiration for Americans
The much-discussed documentary 'Cobblestone Stories' by American anthropologist Mark Neupert can be seen in Leiden's Trianon cinema on 23 April. In an interview published earlier on this site Neupert explained what makes Leiden so special for him. 'The idea is to show my American students that there…
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First NWO Communication Award for Leiden Wall Formula project
Sense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen have been awarded the first ENW Communication Award by funding agency NWO for their Wall Formula project. The award aims to encourage scientists to communicate about their research. It consists of a sculpture and a 10 thousand euro sum for science communica…
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Working from home leads to better well-being and often a lower appraisal from superior
New ways of working like working from home can have a positive impact on a person’s career, but only when their superior supports their choice. Researcher Maral Darouei will defend her PhD thesis on sustainable careers on 9 June 2020.
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Philosophy of sport: beyond reason to imagination
Why do top athletes sacrifice so much for their sport? And does the prevailing theoretical framework for critical sports research, which is based in part on the insights of French philosopher Michel Foucault, do justice to their experiences? Leiden PhD candidate in philosophy Nathanja van den Heuvel…
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Experts share insights during the Night of Digital Security: ‘The enemy is often invisible’
The digital age offers unprecedented opportunities: information is always accessible, systems are interconnected, and processes are automated. However, these developments also give rise to new threats. During the Night of Digital Security on 26 May at the Wijnhaven building, more than experts shared…
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Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives
Conference
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From War on Drugs to Criminal Governance: Mexico’s Security Dilemmas
Lecture
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Philosophy Workshop Metaethics 'New Perspectives on the Now What Question for Moral Error Theory'
Conference
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Women, Family, and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Chongqing
PhD defence
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Onzekerheid omarmen - een tijdreis van de Oudheid naar de digitale toekomst
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium "Academic Activism and the Climate Crisis"
Debate
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium "Global Justice Beyond North vs South"
Lecture
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Een onzekere wereld - van complottheorieën naar alarmsignalen in ons brein
Lecture
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Gig economy and digital labour in Iran: what space for workers’ rights between public discourses and legal practices?
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Onzekerheid opzoeken - risicogedrag in pubers en zebravissen
Lecture
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Roundtable on Climate Change and Land Rights: IOM’s e-course module on HLP, Protection and Climate Change
Lecture, Roundtable discussion
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Book Event: 'Seeking Western Men' with author Monica Liu
Lecture
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The policing of interracialized sex in France (1954-1979)
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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CPP Annual Lecture 'Refugees and the Politics of Inhumanitarianism'
Lecture
- Sustainable Career Event
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Onzekerheid beïnvloed - de rol van emoties tijdens conflicten en strafbepaling
Lecture
- Museum Lab workshops
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CPP Colloquium "Legitimate disobedience and epistemic humility"
Lecture
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Double book launch Radhika Gupta and Erik de Maaker
Festival, Book launch
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Migration policy of the European Union: what lies ahead?
Lecture, Seminar
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Symposium: Inzet van reviews na moord en doodslag in huiselijke kring
Conference
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E-NOTE Second Teaching Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Course
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The European Court of Human Rights reading between the lines
Lecture
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Study evening: Technology and Police training: Forging the next generation of policing professionals?
Lecture
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In the Making #8: Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
Arts and culture
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
Lecture
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
- Volume 11 (2016)
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for the MA Ancient History at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Strategic research into and development of best practice for, predictive modelling on behalf of Dutch Cultural Resource Management
Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.
- Blog Posts Archive
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Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
- Volume 5 (2010)
- Volume 8 (2013)
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Interdisciplinary research and teaching at Leiden University
Many of the challenges of our time are too complex to be resolved within the confines of a single discipline. Leiden University is a broad-based university where an incredible number of research fields converge. That makes us the ideal breeding ground for, and practitioners of, interdisciplinary research…