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New antibiotics
Pathogenic bacteria are increasingly resistant to today’s antibiotics. Professor Gilles van Wezel seeks new forms of antibiotics in good bacteria that live in the soil.
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Research Workshop on the Legal Responses to the Disinformation Crisis
Conference
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News & stories
There are thousands of stories to tell about our alumni. How they experienced their student days. Where they ended up and what they still dream about. We provide an overview of Leiden alumni with our newsletters and the alumni magazine Leidraad.
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UnMiSSeD - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates
UnMiSSeD studies the interaction between misinformation and science in societal debates using a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach.
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Conflict resolution by internet platforms
The Covid-19 'infodemic' and conflict resolution by internet platforms.
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Quest for new antibiotics
Gubbens
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Luzia Helfer, How Politics Becomes News and News Becomes Politics
Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Nico Staring
Faculty of Humanities
n.t.b.staring@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Rik de Ruiter
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.de.ruiter@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9411
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2765
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News and activities
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News and events
News, events, announcements, social media and more about the building of the new Middle Eastern Library in Leiden
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News and events
The latest news on diversity and inclusion and an overview of coming D&I-activities within Leiden University.
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What's New
What's New is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.
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Keep up with our news
There are different ways to keep up with Leiden University news.
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New techniques for tuberculosis treatment
About nine million people worldwide contract tuberculosis each year. Research into new treatment for this disease has received fresh stimulus with more efficient techniques and a new understanding of how the tuberculosis bacteria works.
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New sports and exam centre
Leiden University is currently preparing the development of a new sports and examination center in collaboration with the construction and design firm Binx Smartility. The current sports and examination center no longer meets sustainability requirements and is also becoming too cramped.
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Journalism and New Media (MA)
The Dutch-taught master’s programme in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University provides you with strong editorial and academic skills as well as a journalistic mindset. It is an ideal programme to kickstart your career in journalism.
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(New) Fascism Contagion, Community, Myth
Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene?
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The new politics of Europe
On 27 September 2017 a new book by Prof. Luuk van Middelaar appeared, entitled The new politics of Europe. The book is at the same time a front line account of Europe’s recent crisis years – from monetary turmoil to tensions around Ukraine, from refugee crisis to Brexit – and an analysis of the Union’s…
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Science & Cinema
In films kunnen de meest wonderlijke acties plaatsvinden. Maar zijn die acties in de 'echte' wereld ook mogelijk? En in hoeverre houden filmmakers ons voor de gek? Tijdens het Leiden International Film Festival komen film en wetenschap samen.
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Booming cities, new entrepreneurs
Exponential population growth and rapid urbanisation are prompting the development of gigantic African metropolises that must be supplied with resources such as food, water and energy. This creates economic opportunities, drives migration and presents political challenges. Researchers from Leiden combine…
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New student information
You’re about to join Leiden University as a study abroad or exchange student. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start!
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Apply for new diploma
A diploma is a valuable document that the University issues only once. If somebody loses his or her diploma, he or she can download a copy in the diploma register.
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New handbook “EU State Aids”
The Europa Instituut is pleased to announce that on 21 November 2016 a new handbook “EU State Aids” (31 Chapters, 1500 pages) was published.
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Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek
Ancient Greek is well-known for displaying relatively free word order. This dissertation examines word order variation in the Koine Greek of the New Testament Greek in a variety of domains: declarative clauses, questions and relative clauses. In particular, I examine the way in which word order corresponds…
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Towards a “New” Sonic Ecology
How can we let the sonic speak in public urban environments? What is the function and position of sound in our daily encounters with urbanity? How do we experience cities aurally? This was the topic of Marcel Cobussen's inaugural lecture on November 28th, 2016.
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Perfect for designing new molecules
Even a small quantum computer should be able to simulate exactly the properties and behaviour of new molecules. This would take chemistry to an entirely new level. Better solar panels, more powerful batteries, saving lots of energy in the chemical industry: the applications have the potential to transform…
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Finding and valorizing new antibiotics using AI
Antibiotics are a class of medicine most people take for granted. But pathogenic bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to our antibiotics, and this poses a great challenge for future treatments. There is thus a great societal need to identify new molecules that can address new targets and be…
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Semantics and pragmatics
Semantics and pragmatics are united in the study of linguistic meaning.
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Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality.
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Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives'
The Special Issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics on ‘Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives’ aims to offer diverse insights on language ideologies with a focus on methodological and theoretical questions.
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Mesoamerican manuscripts: new scientific approaches and interpretations
Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and…
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Formation of synthetic fuel: new insights!
Navarro Paredes
- WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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Osteosarcoma: searching for new treatment options
Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen
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Writing Novels under the New Order
On the 31 March 2022 Mr. Taufiq Hanafi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Empirical Legal Studies
Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focuses on building an interdisciplinary community of legal scholars and social scientists who collaboratively explore legal questions on the intersection of law and behavior using a variety of methods.
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Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: : Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge
This book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in Brazil, a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.
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Lattice Cryptography, from Cryptanalysis to New Foundations
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New Methods for (f)MRI Analysis
Analysis of neuroimaging data requires multiple steps where statistics play a crucial role. The MRI methods research group develops new statistical methods that are accurate, transparent and easy to use.
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The quest for new medicines against tuberculosis
Can drug screening for tuberculosis treatment be made more efficient?
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A new window on the Universe
Rottgering
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Towards a New Vision on Public Leadership
In their vision trajectory, the Office for the Senior Civil Service (in Dutch: Bureau Algemene Bestuursdienst) communicated its plan to renew its vision on public leadership. Over the course of 2021, the Leiden Leadership Centre contributed as a scientific partner to the substantiation of this visio…
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New generation alum based vaccine adjuvants
Aluminium-based adjuvants, such as aluminium hydroxide and aluminium phosphate, are well-known for their immune-stimulating properties.
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New perspectives on English in Scotland
Exploring the language of the lower classes in the nineteenth century
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The Articulation of a 'New Neolithic'
The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)
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Fall of Misinformation Series: Ionica Smeets
Misinformation spreads easily and fast. It gets presented as news, whereas actual news gets dismissed as fake. Conflicting streams of information allows all sides to cherry-pick whatever is most comfortable, boosting degrees of confidence and confusing the deliberation of both politicians and voters.…
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Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
This special issue of Media History (22-3/4, 2016), co-edited with Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam), develops a new perspective on the early modern communication revolution. It discusses news as a specific kind of information – by its nature continuous, unreliable, and diffuse – which needed…