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Towards a universal law governing the international civil service?
PhD defence
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International Law and the Challenge of Disinformation
PhD defence
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Metabolomics Insights into the Gut Microbiome and Infants with Cow’s Milk Allergy
PhD defence
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Human Rights Considerations in International Investment Law: A Theory of Harmonization
PhD defence
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Feminist Foreign Policy under Pressure: Latin America and the Caribbean in Times of Conservative Backlash
Conference
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How to make an old antibiotic a hundred times more potent
Nathaniel Martin, Professor of Biological chemistry, wondered what would happen if you take an antibiotic that has been known for 70 years and try to improve it with the latest tools of modern chemistry. Turns out it can become up to a hundred times more potent and prevent the growth of some drug-resistant…
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever'
Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.
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Leiden biologists find nanoplastics in developing heart
Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos sheds new light on how these tiny plastic particles pose a threat to our health.
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Braver Together
PhD defence
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Dutch Investment in French: Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century
PhD defence
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
PhD defence
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Tensiones entre la docencia y la investigación
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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Gemeenten in de wereld
PhD defence
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Navigating adolescence through COVID-19: a multi-system view on mental health in the Chilean context
PhD defence
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From Risks to Public Opinion: How Structural Economic Changes Shape Political Attitudes and Policy Preferences
PhD defence
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De rechtsdwaling
PhD defence
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The Powers of International Investment Tribunals
PhD defence
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The unexplored functions of Toll-like receptor signaling: Immunometabolism, development and microbiome interactions
PhD defence
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform: a collection of essays on human mobility and social protection
PhD defence
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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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!
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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When speech becomes emotional
PhD defence
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Future Environmental Impacts of Metals
PhD defence
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Central Values of L-Functions of Twisted Modular Forms of Composite Level
PhD defence
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Inflation - a reading list
In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same year, the value of the Argentine peso halved, while prices in China only rose by 2%. How well do we understand the economic mechanisms behind inflation?…
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Bridging Micro- and Macro-Sociohistorical Perspectives: A Study of Multilingual Practices in a Franco-Manitoban Family Correspondence (1939–1999)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
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Symposium: The Power of Dialogue in Education
Conference
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