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War and Power by Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien
Guest lecture
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The Palestine Exception
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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Taking Theology Seriously: Islamic Media and the Revolutionary Struggle for a “New Egypt”
Lecture | LUCIS Keynote
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LCCP Colloquium "Singing Unsung Stories: From Disinterest to Strange Taste"
Lecture
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LUCIP Colloquium "Humans as Heaven: Innaecheon 人乃天, and the Resilient Spirit of Korean Democracy and the Korean Wave"
Lecture
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Radical Spotlights: Desire, Sexuality, and the Economy
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
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Trump’s Effect on Academia and Administration – Panel Talk with Professor Donald Moynihan on 26 May
Lecture
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Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court
Panel Discussion
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy
Bezoek
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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Workshop: Rethinking Qualitative Comparison
Workshop
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Public Event ‘Will the EU be a relevant Global Actor in the Future’?
Conference, Public Event
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Global Geopolitics with Trump: Two Months In
Lunch Seminar
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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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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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public in so many different ways. This is the first Public Prize awarded by the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hugo says with a smile:…
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Female sexuality in times of social media
Milou Deelen (24) rapidly rose to prominence as the Dutch advocate of frank talk about women’s sexuality. It has cost her dear, but she has received so much assent, praise and support that she won’t be giving up anytime soon. In the Annie Romein Verschoor Lecture on 5 March, Leiden University’s celebration…
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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Thriller writer Jeroen Windmeijer: books have their own truth
With cultural anthropology alumnus Jeroen Windmeijer, Leiden has added another writer to the fold. Following the success of his religious-historical thrillers, he has been able to call himself a full-time writer since 1 January 2019. ‘Not a true story but still true.’
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order
A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelligence approach, half of the possible explanations are excluded, but the definitive answer remains to be found. 'It is very frustrating', says physicist…
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The colour purple: why it's important to our new Dean
During the New Year's Reception at FSW, new Dean Sarah de Rijcke gave her maiden speech. The first official moment at which she's able to share what she stands for and what to expect of her. In case you weren't there, or you want to read the speech at your own pace, below you can find the integral copy…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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A decade devoted to shaping the future of children’s rights
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.
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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The transformative power of food
Creating a good life and new work values through foodwork?
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Students from all corners of the world
Callum is from Ireland, Sharitah is from The Hague and Kirsten is from Manilla. The new students taking part in the HOP week from 19 to 23 August come from all corners of the world. The HOP week is the introduction week for students at Leiden University in The Hague. The diversity of the student population…
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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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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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‘We all support equal opportunities, but disagree on how to achieve them’
Rotterdam is an extreme example of inequality in the Netherlands. There are huge health and life expectancy differences between neighbourhoods. Good access to healthcare and education isn’t a cure-all, say inequality economists Lieke Beekers and Hans van Kippersluis
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
- Fireside Peace Chats
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Bas Hofstra
Lecture
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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LDE-Majority World Workshop – Contemporary Migrations in the Americas: Cross-Atlantic Dialogue for Socio-Spatial Justice
Workshop
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Foundations and futures of scientometrics - a tribute to the legacy of Loet Leydesdorff
Seminar
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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Bas Edixhoven Memorial Symposium
Conference
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
- Orange the World 2025
- Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture