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Protecting children is what inspires Cleveringa professor Dettmeijer-Vermeulen
Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, the well-known legal expert and Leiden University alumna, was for many years the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children. On 26 November she will deliver the Cleveringa lecture.
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Archaeological Forum: Nathalie Brusgaard and Martin Berger
Lecture
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Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2023
The nominees for the IRO thesis prize 2023 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2023. Who wrote the best bachelor theses in Political Science?
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Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2022
The nominees for the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2022 and the IRO Thesis Prize 2022. Who wrote the best bachelor thesis in Political Science?
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Student in war time
Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. How does he look back at that time, and what was life like afterwards? ‘No one thought that the situation here would become so bad.’
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’
‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…
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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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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland.” Gawron is a historian and professor of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a noted expert…
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Cheia de Axé (Full of Axé): Spirituality, Resistance, and Repair in Pernambuco’s Afro-Brazilian Traditional Communities
CADS Research Seminar
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These professors also stood up for their Jewish colleagues
With his speech in protest against the sacking of his Jewish colleague, Rudolph Cleveringa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, became the foremost symbol for Leiden’s resistance against the Nazis. But there are also other brave professors who should not be forgotten: what are the stories of Ben Telders, Ton…
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Leiden astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronological order
A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort cloud in its entirety. Until now, only parts of the history had been studied separately. The cloud, with roughly 100 billion comet-like objects, forms an enormous shell at the edge of our solar…
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Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Reconfiguring Human–Animal Relations in Bhutan and the Himalayan Buddhist World
Lecture, CADS Research Seminar
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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Lecture, Keynote Lectures
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Ruhama Yilma AbebeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carolien JacobsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hoko HoriiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eva PolmanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ann SkeltonFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Wim VoermansFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Heleen AndriessenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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André van der LaanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gert Jan GeertjesFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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