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Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights
The Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights was established at Leiden University through an endowment given by Dr. Raymond R. Sackler and his wife, Beverly, international philanthropists with a commitment to supporting scientific research. The lectures mark the annual celebration of International…
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Teachers and lecturers broaden their perspective of Islam
Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and university lecturers went on a fact-finding trip to Morocco accompanied by experts from NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Morocco). What did they learn from…
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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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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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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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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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?
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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- Volume 4 (2009)
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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.
- Volume 2 (2007)
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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
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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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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
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Student for a day English Language and Culture (full)
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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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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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Usutu too? Insights into vaccine development strategies for an emerging orthoflavivirus
PhD defence
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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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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…