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Social Resilience & Security seed funding for interdisciplinary research: call for proposals 22 September 2022The interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security is inviting proposals for seed funding. The programme aims to combine knowledge and expe...
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Sara Brandellero: ‘We need to protect the city from an excess of light’ 22 September 2022On 25 September, lights throughout Leiden will be turned off for the Seeing Stars event. What makes the urban night so special? We asked university le...
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Open Doors Day: a moment to meet each other 22 September 2022During the Week Against Loneliness, we ask staff to (symbolically) open their doors, especially those such as lecturers and student advisers who work ...
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Brand-new Ehrenfest car park at LBSP is a breath of fresh air 21 September 2022The new Ehrenfest multi-storey car park at the heart of the Leiden Bio Science Park was opened today by the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of Le...
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication 21 September 2022Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science ...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer 21 September 2022Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointe...
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives 20 September 2022In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philoso...
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden 20 September 2022‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he s...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Dinko Fabris appointed professor: 'Music must live' 20 September 2022Musicologist Dinko Fabris has been appointed professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). He started on 1 September. 'I’m looking ...
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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, is holding an open day on Sunday 25 September. It has had a branch at the Leiden Bio Science Park ...
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International Studies celebrates 10th anniversary: ‘We’re unique in the world’ 16 September 2022This week marks the tenth anniversary of International Studies bachelor's programme. Some (former) staff members tell us what they think makes the Fac...
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden 15 September 2022A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ot...
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Yemen Amsterdam Library now available 15 September 2022The Yemen Amsterdam Library, or Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, of eminent Yemen specialist Dr C.G. Brouwer has now been fully integrated in the c...
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world 15 September 2022Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...