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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID
Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance this year. A total of 3,412 first-year students from Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden, accompanied by 486 mentors, started EL…
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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year
One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place. Plastic Soup Surfer Merijn Tinga opened the academic year in Leiden with this message.
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André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments'
All the world leaders have had to choose an approach during the global Covid-19 crisis. But which approach is the most effective? André Gerrits, Professor of International Studies & Global Politics, who lectures in the BA International Studies, is observing some interesting developments. ‘Democracies…
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Erik Owusu: ‘I want to go back to Ghana and use my acquired knowledge to make a positive impact’
‘I’m Erik Owusu, I’m 20 years old and I’m a student of the bachelor’s programme Urban Studies in The Hague. I was born in The Netherlands, but I’ve lived in Ghana for almost 7 years. Because of this, I was able to see a lot of different cities, cultures and social structures. That got me thinking: what…
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’
Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reality. 'My career seems like a preconceived plan, but it wasn't.'
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'It is important to have discussions about topics that not everybody agrees on'
Today Mikhail Khordorkovsky visits the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time this critic of Putin and former captain of industry visits the Netherlands. This event has been organised by the organisation Raam op Rusland and the…
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Debate on World Cup Qatar: Boycott it or seize opportunity for attention?
The FIFA World Cup will get underway in Qatar this November – an event that has attracted much discussion in recent years. This discussion is not only centred on sport. Human rights are in the spotlights in Qatar. On Friday 30 September, Leiden University organised a debate in which experts from various…
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Green Office chasing green ideas
‘A university is a slow-moving institution, which is in many ways a good thing,' commented student Josephine Rook at the opening of the Leiden University Green Office on 27 September in the Hortus botanicus. ‘Sustainability is not about following the latest trends, but about making structural improv…
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Lara Weiss: ‘Egypt is not just pyramids and mummies’
Egyptologist Lara Weiss is curator at The National Museum of Antiquities and has been leading the VIDI research project 'Walking Dead' since 2017. The exhibition 'Saqqara: Living in a necropolis', which will be on display at the museum starting March 10 next year, is part of the project.
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'
The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. Of Moroccan migrant workers, she says, 'In the seventies the predominant idea was that everyone had the right to their own culture and religion. That's…
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International Studies students receive their diploma
Organised in four separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, a total of 260 students received their Bachelor’s Diploma of International Studies on 28 August 2020 at the graduation ceremony in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden.
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Humanities Career Event 2023
Course, Career Event
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Book launch handbook International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding
Book Launch
- CompaRe conference and call for papers on lean integration
- Food for Thought: Circularity around Food
- GTGC Lunch Seminar: Contested Sovereignty & Politics of Citizenship
- Excursion to the European Parliament
- LUGO Movie Night: October
- Two-Day Workshop: Governing Digital Platforms
- GTGC Global Justice and Human Rights & Identities and Inequalities seminar
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Common Interests and Common Spaces: Institutional Approaches to Dispute Settlement
Conference
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Inaugural Lecture by Federica Mogherini: Europe Hub Launch Event
Lecture
- Lunch Seminar: Governing Delivery Platform Companies
- LUGO Event: Deconstructing the Circular Economy
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Humanities Career Event 2024
Conference
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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8-11 April - Career Days 2024
Course, Career Week
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Online Open Day for Professionals
Study information
- Autumn Event 2022: Photography Exhibition and Rotterzwam talk
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Roundtable: Is the Russia-Ukraine War a Global War? / Workshop: Archives and Methods
Conference, INVISIHIST Pre-Conference
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Gabriel Paiuk – Sound Theory (The Clouds)
Arts and culture, Concert
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Concert Practicum Musicae students
Arts and culture, Concert
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Lectorate Event of lectorate 'Music, Education and Society' Royal Conservatoire
Arts and culture
- GTGC Democracy and Citizenship Research Roundtable
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Keynote Speech: "Citizen Diplomacy, New Diplomatic History, and Questions of Historical Agency"
Lecture, 7th ENIUGH congress
- Lunch Seminar/Meeting: GTGC Climate Governance Consortium
- GTGC lunch seminar: human rights for governing digital platforms
- GTGC lunch seminar: Eve Darian-Smith and Phil McCarty on Global Studies Methods
- Lunch Seminar/Meeting: GTGC Waste Governance Consortium
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50 years after the Chilean coup: The echoes of the 11 September 1973 today
Lecture, Roundtable
- GTGC Lunch Seminar: Governing the European Textile Waste Export
- GTGC Lunch Seminar: Issue Complexity, Strategic Construct and Cooperation Among International Organisations
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Working for the EU, something for you?
Career and apply for jobs
- GTGC Democracy and Citizenship Seminar
- Lunch Roundtable: GTGC x SAILS: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Humanities Career Event 2023
Course, Career Event
- GTGC lunch seminar: Santino Regilme on Global Drug Wars