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NIMAR exhibition: Morocco through Dutch eyes
Leiden historian Herman Obdeijn has created an exhibition for NIMAR about the centuries-old bond between the two countries. The exhibition opens on 1 March at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat. ‘The Moroccans changed from distant allies to close neighbours.’
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference
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Student for a day African Studies
Study information
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The Power of Empathy in International Development Work: Beyond Policies and Numbers
Lecture
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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Public Speaking Competition for Students of Dutch Studies
Arts and culture, Competition
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025
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Upcoming Elections in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru: A New Turn to the Right?
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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CANCELLED Bolivia: reflexions on its Bicentennial of independence, decolonization and the challenges of Plurinational State/ Bolivia: Reflexiones
Lecture
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The Panama Canal: unveiling the transition to Panamanian Management
Lecture
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Literature and Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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About our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities offers an inspiring international working environment with room for diversity and innovation to staff and students from home and abroad.
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- Leiden University Gender Equality Plan 2021
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Seminars
LCN2 hosts seminars on the last Friday of each month.
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About the Programme
During the two-year History Research Master's programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct high quality research.
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Programme structure
The core curriculum equips students with the conceptual approaches and qualitative empirical research methods necessary to analyze law in context. Specialized electives enable students to dive deeper and focus on particular areas of legal practice—from legal mobilization to regulation and compliance…
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Young people and children and the counter-smuggling project
Lecture
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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LED3 & LUCID Drug Discovery Meeting
Conference
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Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
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Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Endemic parasitic infections during pregnancy and their impact on clinical and immunological outcomes in Gabon
PhD defence
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State’s obligations on Climate Change. A Latin American Perspective
Debate, Panel and public discussion
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture (full)
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Usutu too? Insights into vaccine development strategies for an emerging orthoflavivirus
PhD defence
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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How students incorporate sustainability in their master thesis
Many students are finishing their master thesis on sustainability this summer. In this blog, we reflect on their topics, approaches, and goals by highlighting theses from Governance of Sustainability, European Law, Global Archaeology, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Ecology, and…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for children
A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short animated video was made by two German researchers with whom child psychologists Anke Klein and Annelieke Hagen are working. ‘With our translation, this…
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
From 19 to 21 September 2018 the third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) will take place at Leiden University. The theme of the conference will be 'Interfaces'.
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Successful second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law at the EAC headquarters in Arusha
On the 5th of May 2016, the second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law (LEAC) took place at the East African Community headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The Conference was organized on the occasion of Europe Day with the generous support of the EAC, the EU delegation to EAC and…
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Life sentence for Mladić: mission accomplished?
The court has dismissed Ratko Mladić’s appeal and upheld his life sentence for genocide and war crimes. The verdict is one of Yugoslavia tribunal’s last. Mission accomplished?