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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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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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The position of Lydian within Anatolian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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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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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 To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…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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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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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past decade or so. University lecturer Vincent Chang tells us more about this far-reaching development.
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VICI, worth 1.5 million euro, for her research project Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘I want to do something that hasn’t…
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Floris Harm studied Chinese, just like one of his ancestors: ‘We’re both trying to promote mutual understanding’
When Floris Harm took up his role as director of the Leiden Asia Centre, he made a remarkable discovery on the university website. It turned out that a past family member was one of Leiden University’s first sinologists.
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Ensnaring tumours in their own web
Erik Danen is looking at how to inhibit tumours that do not respond well to medicine – and he is making some headway. The Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery studies the interaction between tumour cells and their surroundings. Inaugural lecture on Friday 10 May.
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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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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Paul CliteurFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruhama Yilma AbebeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Harry FokkensFaculty of Archaeology
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Carolien JacobsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hoko HoriiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Reijer PasschierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eva PolmanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Benthe van DelftFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sam BotanFaculty of Archaeology
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Mark KlaassenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Igor DjakovicFaculty of Archaeology
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Jonathan PriceFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dita AuzinaFaculty of Archaeology
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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
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Daan 't HartFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Willemien den OudenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maurijn van der ZeeFaculty of Science
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Jenneke EversFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Asmaa KhadimFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Miriam MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Julia RootenbergFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rehana DoleFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sayeh MohammadiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lucy OpokaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eva SchmidtFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bastiaan RijpkemaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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Elias Tissandier-NasomFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Helen DuffyFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Danny JolFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Femke ReidsmaFaculty of Archaeology
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Peter RodriguesFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid