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Struggle in the region: China and Taiwan fight for support in Central America 01 June 2023Honduras recently severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after 82 years. In doing so, the country is following the trend of other Central American countr...
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Diplomacy may look very different in space than on Earth 30 May 2023A symposium on space diplomacy for experts and the general public will take place in The Hague on Monday 12 June. Everyone has an interest in learning...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men 26 May 2023The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected...
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room 26 May 2023A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building 25 May 2023Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networki...
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Executive Board column: Fire, power cut, evacuate... 25 May 2023We take it for granted that water comes out of the tap and electricity out of the socket. But that isn’t always the case. Last Tuesday began like any ...
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik 25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Nearly all buildings at LBSP open and operating again from Wednesday 24 May 24 May 2023Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard ...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration 23 May 2023Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-sca...
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission 23 May 2023A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. ...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers 22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Interdisciplinary research: labour market on the move 22 May 2023Migration, globalisation, technological developments, climate change: the greatest challenges of our time all affect our labour market. But how exactl...
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Annick van Rinsum about her play: World Politics Three Times 22 May 2023MA International Relations: Culture and Politics student Annick van Rinsum created a play as a method to research her master’s thesis. “Through writin...