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Leiden graduate starts petition for visa extension because of Covid-19
Yuven Muniandy (36) from Malaysia recently obtained a PhD from Leiden University. His ‘orientation year’ visa gives him a year to find work in the Netherlands. But with Covid-19, companies have frozen recruitment. Yuven and seven other graduates are asking for a visa extension. He explains why.
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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Workshop How to find a job in the Netherlands
Study support, Career and apply for jobs
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'The results could take days'
Election Day is over, but it's by no means clear who the new President of the United States will be. On the morning after Election Day, US expert Sara Polak relects on the results that are in so far, and looks ahead to the coming days.
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From chemistry teacher to founder of outdoor escape room company
Alumnus Vincent Renken studied Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden and is now co-founder of an outdoor escape room company. ‘I asked myself: do you want a standard life or an adventure?’
- Workshop 'Charitable Institutions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean'
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference
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The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community
PhD defence
- Masterclass: Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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The Answer to Inequality is in the Past
Lecture
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Antithrombotic therapy in the Netherlands- New insights from nationwide data
PhD defence
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Rule of Law in the EU: Beyond Poland and Hungary
Panel discussion
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Opening exhibition- Finding Happiness in the Soft Spots
Exhibition, Practicum Artium
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Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community
PhD defence
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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Kusundic, a possible linguistic substrate in the Himalayas
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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‘The depletion of the Earth’s resources is coming closer every year’
A packaging-free shop, small mobile homes, solar panels on all Leiden's roofs… Jeroen Schrama, alumnus of Public Administration, is a creative world improver. ‘If we really want to save the world, we have to make much more radical choices.’
- Info Session: Study in the Netherlands at Leiden University
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LCCP Research Seminar "Geoconstitutionalism: Authoritative Lawmaking in the Anthropocene"
Lecture
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Characterization of innate immune cells in the glioma microenvironment
PhD defence
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Characterization of innate immune cells in the glioma microenvironment
PhD defence
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Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century
Conference, INVISIHIST Conference
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Strategies in the Battle Against Neonatal Nosocomial Infections
PhD defence
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Understanding syncope in the framework of transient loss of consciousness
PhD defence
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Food insecurity, dietary quality and health in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Biomarkers and Prognosis in Cardiac Surgery in the ICU
PhD defence
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Dynamics of the opioid crisis in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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How a very international archaeologist was born
From mandrill teeth to the microstructure of bones: archaeology alumna Simone Lemmers (31) is determined to reveal the past by studying old remains. Her curiosity has led to a very international career, also in the UK, where she witnessed the Brexit referendum.
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Alumnus (90) donates historic house to Leiden University
Alumnus Ruurt Hazewinkel (90) has presented Leiden University with a special gift: a historic house on Leiden’s Rapenburg canal. He handed over the key to Rector Carel Stolker on Monday 25 January.
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Pluriform prosody in the voice, face, and hands
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Midterm elections: surprising results, or not so much?
In the midterm elections in the United States on 6 November, the Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives, thus regaining control of the House over the Republicans. But the Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate. Three of our researchers, experts on US politics, share their…
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'In an ideal world we would recycle everything'
Merijn Tinga hit the headlines in 2016 as the Plastic Soup Surfer. In force six winds, the Leiden biologist ventured across the English Channel on a hydrofoil kiteboard made from plastic bottles. Interview with this Leiden artist who is fighting the mountain of plastic waste and finding his feet as…
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
- Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
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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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Towards a community-based heritage in the Caribbean: Challenges and practices
Symposium
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Colloquium: Plasma Chemistry to aid the Energy and Materials Transition in the Process Industry
Lecture
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
- Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
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Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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ELS lab meeting – Letter experiments to measure compliance in the financial sector by Sarwesh Iswardat
Lecture
- GTGC lunch seminar: Nina Hall on Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
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FRESH lecture: Applications of "dual" Metallaphotoredox Catalysis in the Synthesis of Quaternary Carbons
Lecture
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a speaker with a background in neuroscience
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest lay in applying neuroscience in everyday life.
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
Lecture