News
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Teaching Fair 2023: what can we look forward to? 22 May 2023
The Teaching Fair is once again upon us. What can we expect from this year's afternoon of inspiration for teachers? Three participants tell us.
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Botany: a love you can’t force 22 May 2023
Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters talks about how people treat plants in general and weeds in particular.
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023
UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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New Humanities Living Room focuses on 'feeling at home' 18 May 2023
Playing a game, picking a cutting for your room or just having a cup of coffee: it is all possible in the new Humanities Living Room in the Matthias d...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023
He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000 17 May 2023
On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Gl...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023
It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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Updated guideline protects student and teacher privacy 16 May 2023
That one handy little tool to do a quiz with students: can you use that or will you inadvertently put their privacy at risk? New privacy guidelines of...
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A quick call with Corinda van Bohemen about the SteunLeiden.nl crowdfunding platform 16 May 2023
From an emergency fund for Ukrainian students to a golf tournament for cancer research at the LUMC: the Leiden University Fund (LUF) crowdfunding plat...
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3 reasons why you shouldn’t miss ‘Interdisciplinary Collaborations – Food, Sustainability & Health’ 16 May 2023
On Friday June 2, the Liveable Planet event 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations - Food, Sustainability & Health' will take place. Here, researchers can ...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide? 16 May 2023
We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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Organising an event about AI? Ask SAILS for help 15 May 2023
AI has applications in all kinds of fields. Would you like to organise an event on the possibilities of AI in your research field? The Leiden interdis...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’ 11 May 2023
What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...