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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
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Stephan Raaijmakers: ‘Everyone within Humanities can contribute to the study of AI’
Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by special appointment. How has his approach to AI changed in that time?
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Amy Strecker wins Breed Grant to work on Property and Spatial Justice in International Law
Dr Amy Strecker has recently been awarded a LGI BREED grant to develop her project on property and spatial justice in international law. Building on her previous research into landscape protection from cultural heritage, environmental and human rights perspectives, Amy will combine legal analysis with…
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Rubicon grant for Sara Polak
The NWO has awarded Sara Polak a Rubicon grant. In September, she will start a 12-month period of research at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
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Why do we always have room for pudding?
In De Kookshow, Universiteit Van Nederland explores the scientific world behind food. Ever wondered which senses influence how tasty you find something? And why do you always have room for pudding after a meal? Leiden historian Kim Beerden is among the scholars providing answers.
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Inaugural lecture prof.dr. J.J. van Haersolte-van Hof
Inaugural lecture
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Leiden University partner in research on handwriting and image recognition
The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on making illustrated and handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project is funded by NWO.
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LUCIP Colloquium "Gender and Emotion in Chinese Thought and Cultures"
Lecture
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Meet postdoc Ana Zora Maspoli: ‘I came to Leiden to find a new way to look at the dilemma of Romanisation’
Looking for a different approach in the ongoing discussions on the ethereal matter of Romanisation, Ana Zora Maspoli joined Miguel John Versluys’ research group as a postdoc guest researcher. While she has been active in our Faculty since February 2022, you may not have met her yet due to the Covid-19…
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet! Over het belang van perspectieven binnen de (neuro)wetenschap
Inaugural lecture
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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Van Marum Mini Symposium
Lecture
- 450-talk Sigrid van Wingerden
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Arthur Docters van Leeuwen Annual Lecture
Lecture
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Leiden University during the Second World War
Event
- IBL Spotlight - Han de Winde and IBL Analytical Facility
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Van Marum Colloquium: Magnetic Carbon
Lecture
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Decolonisation in art: 'That darkness says: up to here and no further'
It was not light, but its absence that caught Stephanie Noach's attention a few years ago. With her research on darkness in art, she aims to show how darkness can question and sometimes even undermine colonial imagery.
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2023-2024
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The World Bank’s Role in Supporting and Rebuilding Ukraine
Guest lecture
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Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World
Conference, workshop
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Knowledge gap due to exodus of Dutch MPs
With the exodus of departing parliamentarians, which seems to have gained momentum this summer, the loss of experience in parliament after the upcoming general election in the Netherlands will be considerable. A cause for concern according to Wim van De Camp, former CDA MP, and Wim Voermans, Professor…
- OSCoffee: Contributions of open science to research culture – A scoping review
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Graduation ceremony bachelor and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation ceremony master and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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What makes peace sustainable?
‘Realising we have shared ancestors and that our past is dynamic makes us more accepting of others.’ Sada Mire is an archaeologist at Leiden University and a former refugee – she fled from the civil war in Somalia. At the HagueTalks night during the Just Peace Festival, she will share her thoughts on…
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Book Launch: Cultural Confluence in Organizational change: a Portuguese venture in Angola
Lecture, Book Launch
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Niki van Stein
Lecture
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Peter PelsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Bridging Wor(l)ds: Future-proofing the Languages and Cultures Sector in Dutch Higher Education
Conference
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LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
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Iron Age canoeing
In 2005 Leiden's municipal archaeologists excavated a 2,700-year-old canoe dug out from a tree trunk. Researchers from Material Culture Studies are now building a reproduction of this vessel using replicas of Iron Age tools. The researchers are hoping to gain a better understanding of the building p…
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Maiden voyage of prehistoric dug out canoe replica
After 30 days of work, the experimental reconstruction of the iron age canoe of Vlaardingen Vergulde Hand is finished! Its maiden voyage will take place on Friday the 16th of February when it will be paddled for the first time by schoolchildren from Vlaardingen.
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First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden
On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam around the shared research theme Collecting Global Heritage. Some 50 researchers, students and collection managers came together to share knowledge,…
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Archaeological Science article on experimental archaeology among most downloaded
The research article ‘Anatomy of a notch. An in-depth experimental investigation and interpretation of combat traces on Bronze Age swords’ is one of the most downloaded articles on the Journal of Archaeological Science website. This journal is one of the best for impact factor in the field. The article,…
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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Putting life into Neolithic houses with an NWO subsidy: ‘We will bring detail in our image of past domestic activities’
Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn received an NWO Archeologie Telt grant to investigate domestic craft and subsistence activities of late Neolithic peoples in the coastal area of the Netherlands
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University from September 2014 till February 2015.
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Leiden Tolkien Talks: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Anticipation of “The War of the Rohirrim”
Lecture
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
- In Praise of Solidarity - World Refugee Day 2024
- In Praise of Community Building - World Refugee Day 2025
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023