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Partners
Read more about the partner organizations of the Summerschool Global History in the 2020s.
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Governance, Economics and Development (BSc Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Wrenching poverty, global inequality, violent political and ethnic strife, deadlocked, unresponsive or even collapsing governments, growing dissatisfaction with democracy and missed opportunities for innovation – these are merely some of the challenges of governance and development with which our programme…
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Report by Dutch Committee on Social Minimum
On Thursday 28 September, the Committee on Social Minimum, of which Koen Caminada is a member, presented its second report to outgoing minister for poverty policy in the Netherlands, Carola Schouten. The Committee was established by the minister at the request of the House of Representatives.
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Social mindfulness varies across the globe
Compare human social behaviour at a country level and you will find differences. Japan has the highest score whereas the Netherlands is just above average. This is what psychologist Niels van Doesem discovered in research with an international team of 64 colleagues in 31 industrialised countries. Their…
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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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Media use and brain development during adolescence
Nowadays children grow up with social media. This may influence the development of brain regions involved in social interaction. In their review article in Nature Communications, Crone and Konijn illustrate how neuroscience can contribute to a better understanding of how media and peers influence adolescents'…
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Criminal Law and Criminology
The Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology comprises two departments. One focuses on research and teaching in the field of criminal law and procedure and the other on criminology.
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Reform of Social Legislation Speaker Series
On Friday 17 November at 15.30h Prof. Simon Deakin will give the first seminar of the Reform of Social Legislation Speaker Series
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Social Science Lab: think tanks that do
In June the Final Festival took place, the closing event of the 'Social Science Lab'. New participants of Honours College Science and Society presented their solution for a current social problem.
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How can academics be supported in the face of threats on social media?
'Academics who share their knowledge with the outside world on social media are often insulted or even threatened. Especially female academics and academics of colour seem to regularly be the victim of sexist and racist comments.' This is what Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature…
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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Marja Spierenburg about the importance of the EuroScience Open Forum
From Wednesday 13 July 2022, for four days, Leiden is at the epicentre of European science, as it hosts Europe's largest interdisciplinary conference, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). We interviewed Marja Spierenburg, Professor in the Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood. In addition to being…
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Yvonne Erkens publishes article on innovation in the field of corporate social responsibility
Throughout the world fundamental labour rights in supply chains are being violated. Since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh shook the world, we can no longer turn our heads away.
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Online portal consolidates ‘social’ knowledge about coronavirus
Understandably, coronavirus is often viewed from a medical perspective. However, researchers in the social sciences and humanities possess a great deal of expertise that could improve our understanding of the virus outbreak and its impact on society. A new portal is consolidating this knowledge.
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‘For good measure’: data gaps in a big data world
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels, both Assistant Professors at Leiden University, researched the quality and coverage of the data being collected for policiymakers to be used, specifically pertaining to minority groups.
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Photographic traditions in black popular modernities: towards a socio-historical analysis of the visual economy in and beyond South Africa
The aim of the project is to contribute to the process of archive formation ongoing in Post-Apartheid South Africa through the inclusion of photographs that have been either unacknowledged or excised from the national canon.
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study social interventions in eight Dutch cities in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
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Ellen de Bruijn about the social context of making mistakes and learning from it
During the event 'Fout?' by De Jonge Akademie, Ellen de Bruijn held a lecture about the social context of making mistakes and the psychological elements of learning from it.
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Diversity officer Aya Ezawa on George Floyd and racism: ‘this is a time for reflection’
The death of George Floyd has led to fierce protests against police violence in the United States and beyond. What effects are we seeing in our University community? We discussed the situation with Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa.
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Public service professionals coping with contrasting demands
Double Bind. Public service professionals coping with contrasting demands. How do public service professionals align their PSM with contrasting demands set by the organizational and social contexts in which they work?
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Social Science Matters: Clinton vs. Trump - race over?
Monday 26 September, 2016 saw the first confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Expectations were high – not only about the content of the debate, but also about how the two presidential candidates would behave, and how this might influence their campaigns. We asked three researchers…
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Probing complex problems
Issues such as climate change, the depletion of natural resources or social inequality are too complex to be addressed from a single scientific discipline or by a single country. Leiden University has the expertise to bring the resolution of these enormous problems a small step closer.
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Respiratory health and disease in the Netherlands
Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).
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African Studies (BA)
Africa is fascinating! In today’s globalised world, the continent plays an increasingly important role in international social and cultural developments. Would you like to explore the many sides of Africa and its impact on the rest of the world, while also learning one of its languages? Our African…
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About the programme
The Arts, Media and Society programme in its introductory year will give you a sound foundation of core knowledge about modern and contemporary art and art history. You will also start developing your academic skills. In the second and third year, you will explore the impact that that art has on society…
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Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science
The seminar series on ‘Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science’ aims to foster debate on inequalities in science across the world. We hope to invite critical discussions on how research evaluation and communication include/exclude topics so far seen labelled as “regional” and/or published in “local"…
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Skills and social change in postsocialistic Mongolia
How do people living in a remote part of Northern Mongolia experience the post-socialist transition that occurred twenty years ago? Based on extensive fieldwork, cultural anthropologist Richard Fraser argues that this is not at all clear. In his PhD dissertation, he developed a new framework based on…
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GDP? Get rid of it!
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdated figure. Why are we only looking at economic growth? And why do welfare, sustainability and inequality not count? Environmental economist Rutger Hoekstra…
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‘Social deprivation on Curaçao deliberately maintained’
From the 19th century, Dutch colonisers on Curaçao relied heavily on the Catholic church. Missionaries provided not only teaching and spiritual care for the Catholic Afro-Caribbeans, they also ensured social order and peace. However, these benefits came at a price. The gap to good education and participation…
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Population-Scale Network Analysis (POPNET)
A research data infrastructure in computational social science
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Coen Wirtz
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.wirtz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3731
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1349
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Myrthe Jansen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.jansen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
l.de.ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2669
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Dilara Erzeybek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
d.erzeybek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.jentzsch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3456
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Frank Takes
Science
f.w.takes@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7143
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Renetta Bos
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.h.bos@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7548
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Mirre Stallen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.stallen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7336
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Stephanus Huijbregts
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
shuijbregts@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1723
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Daan Scheepers
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
scheepersdt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3642
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
a.schmidt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2502
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Tessa Bonduelle
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.m.m.bonduelle@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alex Geert Castermans
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.g.castermans@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7400
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Qi Meng
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
q.meng@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marret Noordewier
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.k.noordewier@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8852
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
h.n.m.de.mulder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7563
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Armin Cuyvers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.cuyvers@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5409
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2786
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.a.opgenhaffen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2099