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Geopolitical Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology Regulation
Book talk
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world
Conference
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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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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference, Symposium
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Taking Theology Seriously: Islamic Media and the Revolutionary Struggle for a “New Egypt”
Lecture | LUCIS Keynote
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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From Afrikaans to Ukrainian: take a free language class with Una Europa
Course
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Pianoconcert Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin
Arts and culture, Pianoconcert
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
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From sovereignty at sea to self-determination: the geopolitics of Greenland
Who holds rights to Greenland’s surrounding waters and natural resources? Which interests are at stake and for whose benefit? We put these questions to Hilde Woker, who specialises in the law of the sea in the Arctic.
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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How vulnerable is the Netherlands to an energy crisis?
The Iran war has pushed up fuel prices and raised concerns about a global energy shortage. How well prepared is the Netherlands? We asked two experts.
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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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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Herta Mohr Lecture 2026: Identity and Connectivity at the Oryx District
Lecture, Herta Mohr-lezing
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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How Google, Facebook and other digital platforms are influencing the work of journalists
Digital journalism is transforming the way in which information and communication technologies are used by media workers. With this change journalist practices, norms and values are also being reshaped. This is the conclusion of Tomás Dodds PhD research.
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Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant for research on Artificial Intelligence in Muslim Southeast Asia
Bart Barendregt receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from the NWO for his research project 'One between the Zeros, an Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence in Islam'.
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Worlds shaped by words: A cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production
PhD defence
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people
Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past decade or so. University lecturer Vincent Chang tells us more about this far-reaching development.
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Aris Politopoulos -
Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Seminar on the Implications Trump 2.0 for Europe, America, and the World
Conference
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War in the Middle East: What are the implications?
The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have been welcomed by critics of the regime but have also prompted intense concern. They’ve triggered a dangerous domino effect across the region and beyond. Leiden experts share their insights on the potential consequences.
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How do you prepare for the threats of tomorrow?
As geopolitical tensions rise and the international landscape becomes increasingly volatile, the Netherlands faces a growing range of threats, from cyber attacks and disinformation to foreign interference and social unrest. In the new executive programme Strategy and a Resilient Rule of Law, researchers…
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Arie-Jan KwakFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kees WaaldijkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Simone van der HofFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid