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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Celebrating Twenty Years of MIRD
On March 25, the Advanced Masters of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the programme. The celebrations began with the Reconnect event, bringing current students and alumni together, and concluded with the MIRD Gala. Throughout the day, the tight-knit…
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia”, led by Fenneke Sysling. Below they introduce themselves.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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Age checks need to respect children's rights
A variety of age checks are required, both in order to protect children and to ensure that they can participate online, a new study funded by the European Commission finds. The article on the study, co-authored by Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, was published in…
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Key for effective application of a new revolutionary cholesterol lowering drug resides in a 30 year old Leiden Patent
‘’ And then the world changed forever ,welcome to the future’’. These are the words that Kausik Ray (President of the European Atherosclerosis Society) spoke when the worldwide first dose of inclisiran, a novel SiRNA based cholesterol lowering agent, was administered at the Cardiology lipid clinic at…
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Healthy University Workshops
Personal development
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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The Politics of Education in Contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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A ‘Little Armenia’ in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- COGLOSS seminars 2023-2024
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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Hard bargains: politics of debt and investment in the EU
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan
Lecture
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Jan Kleijssen, Hans Franken-lecture 2023
Lecture
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“Let’s go to the Wanghong Restaurant…”: Following the wanghong as an aspect of global China
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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What are we defending?
Lecture
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Building a stronger and more resilient Union - Mapping the cost of non-Europe (2022-2032)
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Lecture
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Doing Family before the State. Recognition of de facto families in Dutch migration law practice
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Prioritizing Global Responsibilities: The Ethics of Global Priority-setting
Lecture
- COGLOSS seminars 2024-2025
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Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History
Lecture, Seminar
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The Road to Planetary Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery
Lecture
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Research Seminar Katerina Rozakou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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‘In transformation’: trust, participation, and new socialities around collective food procurement networks in Gdańsk
PhD defence
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From Atoms to Asteroids: How Chemistry Governs the Birth of Planets
Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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European-wide ecosystem responses and their vulnerability to intensive drought
PhD defence
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The Other is the One left behind
Lecture, Research Seminar
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CRG Seminar: The regime of hopes and broken promises of a large-scale land deal in Senegal: “The company promised an elephant but finally gave
Lecture
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
- Spinoza Lezing 2024
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Opening party
Festival
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
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How to keep a forest happy? A study on singing behaviour in BaYaka hunter gatherers in Congo
For the first time, a group of international and interdisciplinary researchers led by Karline Janmaat and her former MSc Student Chirag Chittar, have tested the several hypotheses on music simultaneously in a modern foraging society during their daily search for tubers – their staple food.
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The Comics Canon - Graphic Novels at Leiden University Libraries
Graphic Novels and Comics have developed from pulp status to an entirely self-contained medium. This form of storytelling is not limited to stories of superheroes but has been used, molded and reshaped to display historical events, classic stories and autobiographical memoirs. But where should you begin…
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list
In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.