Testing chemical substances without using animals. It seems a utopia, but a European team is going to develop a way to make this a reality. The RISK-HUNT3R project, led by Leiden professor Bob van de Water, received 23 million euros from the European Commission for this purpose. The project was launched…

Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan immigrants among youths in Ecuador. Combining their expertise and collaborating with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, they will focus on school-going…

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial intelligence (AI) lab. The aim of this lab is to accelerate and improve MRI scans with AI. This is great for patients, and it helps make MRI more accessi…

Ariane Briegel wants to use bacteria to detect cancer at an early stage. Together with postdoc Alise Muok, she is developing a method to quickly and cheaply test the urine of patients for the presence of suspicious molecules. They receive a grant of approximately 150,000 euros from the Dutch Cancer…

Bacteria whirl around in the mouths of most people, forming dental plaques and sometimes causing nasty gum infections. Treponema denticola might be a dangerous pathogen, but not much is known about this bacterium. It was up to Ariane Briegel and her research group to change that.

On 2 December, the Municipality of Leiden will apologise for the role previous administrations played in colonialism and slavery. A further study will be carried out.

‘Working in Leiden is a dream come true.’ Ákos Kovács studied in his birth country Hungary and worked in Germany, Denmark and Groningen. As professor of Microbiome Ecology at IBL, he immediately started working together with his new colleagues to make discoveries about the versatile bacterial species…

Part of discharging the mandate of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, this event will discuss the crime of genocide and how the framework can be applied to the offensive launched by Israel against the Palestinian…

On 29 January 2018, the new “Arbitration of International Disputes” MOOC (massive open online course), taught by Prof. Eric De Brabandere and Dr. Giulia Pinzauti, will start on Coursera.

Lecture

Roundtable

Gottfried Semper’s Generative Theory of Style Mari Hvattum, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Although he is the nineteenth century’s most famous theorist of style, exactly what Gottfried Semper meant by the term is not at all obvious. He certainly meant something else than most of his contemporaries.…

Professional scribes in the Middle Ages produced advertisement sheets with which they presented themselves to potential clients. In this lecture, Erik Kwakkel will show known and new examples of such advertisement sheets and interpret their importance for our understanding of the culture of writing…

Prof.dr. G.J. Oostindie Prof.dr. J. de Jong dr. F.E. Guadeloupe Summary Wat is 'het nieuws' en hoe verschilt het van 'nieuws'? Het eerste spreekt tot journalistiek en institutionele nieuwspraktijken, het laatste tot machtsverhoudingen, diversiteit van nieuwsmedia en een erkenning van meerdere publieken…

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

Join us for an open conversation about the current situation in Gaza and its aftermath with two leading experts from the international community. How might we envision a postconflict future in Gaza? How should the international community approach reconstruction and reconciliation? What political and…

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 16 June to 17 July 2019 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice. Applications for the second edition are now open!

Judicial officers have some leeway in how they act. In most cases that's fine, but it can also lead to abuses, such as ethnic profiling. It is easy to forget that these are not isolated decisions, but are also part of a framework of formal policies. Professor Maartje van der Woude calls for more comprehensive…

Featuring the world’s first neural synthesizer, artist Guy Ben-Ary and his collaborators will perform at the TodaysArt Festival in The Hague on 21 September. For this performance, he collaborated with the lab of Erik Danen to transform neural stem cells into neural networks on a chip.

Lecture

In cooperation with study associations L.S.A. Custodia and B.I.L., the event 'Speeddating with master students' will take place on Wednesday 3 May. An event especially for third-year students of Public Administration and Security Studies who are unsure which FGGA master programme to choose. Past years…

On 13-14 October, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor for Comparative, EU, and International Law at LUC, took part in the Duke-Pretoria Conference on Comparative Foreign Relations Law. During these two days in the South African capital, draft chapters for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Comparative…

Research

It was challenging to get civil servants from the first Trump administration to speak about their work experiences, but sociologist Jaime Lee Kucinskas succeeded. The picture that emerged from her findings, she says, is far from positive. 'The more I spoke with them, the more emotions I saw. They were…

The Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights (LL.M.) was launched in 2015 to equip a generation of professionals to protect the rights of children worldwide. As the programme celebrates its 10th anniversary, we reflect on its impact.

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. This day has been celebrated in the Netherlands since 1912, usually centring around a specific theme. This year’s theme: solidarity, the power for change.

Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.

Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…

Interfaculty lunch

Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…

In the leadup to Russia's 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, many private and public attempts were made to warn the Russian leadership not to take this action. All these failed. Thereafter, deterring Russian use of WMD in Ukraine was prioritized, and at some future point following a ceasefire, deterring…

Study information

According to many scholars in Sino-American studies, the US has developed a consistent viewpoint that China seeks to overturn the rules-based order and replace it with a Sinocentric order. However, the US view is of course, open to challenge. This lecture will reflect on the question “Is there an international…

Rishi Sunak’s visit to Paris on 10 March marked the culmination of a reconnection process that began after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and then gradually accelerated. It opened the door to closer cooperation with France and a window of opportunity with the EU and beyond it. King Charles…