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Introducing: Alistair Kefford
Alistair Kefford is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History since August 2020. He introduces himself.
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A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration
Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-scale Kiem grants will enable Leiden researchers to explore or start collaborative projects with colleagues from other faculties. ‘So seek each other out…
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Social Resilience & Security: Yearbook 2021 - 2022
With the start of the new academic year, the Social Resilience & Security programme proudly presents their yearbook. In the yearbook, you read about the programme’s interdisciplinary research building bridges between institutes, its educational activities such as the new Minor ‘Violence Studies’ and…
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Hulpgoederen brengen naar Oekraïne: ‘Ook iemand anders had nu wat aan mijn studie’
Samen met andere studenten bracht Fien Lurvink hulpgoederen naar Oekraïne en nam vluchtelingen mee terug.
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College or university? Computer science students in the right place
The right student in the right place. That is what LIACS programme director Frank Takes and education coordinator Joyce Glerum are aiming to do with the ‘Wisselstroom’ project. By next year, they hope to have a standardised protocol that will make it easier for computer science students to transfer…
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In Memoriam Midas Berkenveld
With great shock, we have learned of the sudden passing of Midas Berkenveld. Midas was a second-year Biology student; in 2022, he had already successfully completed his bachelor's degree in Linguistics.
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Kiem call: apply for a seed grant for interdisciplinary research
Research
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Executive Board column: Participation keeps the Board on its toes
This week we can vote in the University elections. The University Council and faculty councils are incredibly important. During the fantastic seminar on 50 years of participation that the University Council recently held, our former Rector Carel Stolker aptly said: ‘Without participation, there would…
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Panel debate Democracy Under Pressure: The fight against threats to politicians
Debate
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Orangutans and the Borders of Humanity in the Long Eighteenth Century
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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The Power of Empathy in International Development Work: Beyond Policies and Numbers
Lecture
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Radical Spotlights: Economics of Political Chaos
Inaugural lecture
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Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Refugees’ “Right to Have Rights”: Opening Doors between Nations
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Silence, Faith and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Should Nature be given Rights?
LeidenGlobal Annual event
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Radical Spotlight: The Economics (and Politics too) of Care
Lecture, Radical Spotlight seminar
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Pageantry as Public Diplomacy: Contested Receptions of English and French Dignitaries in the Netherlands, 1570s-1640s
Lecture, Research seminar 1000-1800
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The implementation of central reforms at the local level. Three case studies on the Austrian Empire, Bavaria, and Prussia around 1800
Lecture, Research seminar 1000-1800
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From Baghdād to Baghpūr: Global Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Status and trends in Open Science: open to what and for whom? The UNESCO OS Outlook
Seminar
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Chemical Weapons Use and Legal Pathways to Accountability
Conference, Seminar
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Post Moving Office Faculty Drinks
Social
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Migration and International Socialism: Transnational Socialism, Free Movement, and Migration in the early European Parliament
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Embedded Bureaucrats and Refugee Integration: How Do Local Bureaucrats’ Social Ties to Host Communities Facilitate Service Provision to Refugees
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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The Road to Planetary Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Introducing the Multistakeholder Global Governance Project
Lunch Seminar
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Palliative Care Around the World
Conference, Seminar
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Pipelines, Prices, and Power: Market Governance in the Era of Oil Price Benchmarks
Lecture
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Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below
Lecture
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Refugees’ Livelihood Strategies in a Setting of Long-term Encampment: The Case of the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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BOOK TALK: Offshore Attachments Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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Dr. Hans Petschar delivers Sixth Annual Austrian Studies Lecture
On April 14, 2025, Dr. Hans Petschar, the recently-retired Director of the Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, delivered the Sixth Annual Austrian Studies Lecture 'Austria’s Present Past: A visual journey through Austrian history 1925 – 2025'.
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Living and Dying with the State
The state, and specifically the idea of nationality, is almost all-determining in social life in the Netherlands. It determines how people identify, how we interact with each other, and what (in)equality in society looks like. However, ultimately, the idea that we can divide people into different nationalities…
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From judge to police officer: a lack of understanding for deaf people in legal proceedings
The cultural linguistic minority group of deaf people who communicate using sign language systematically experiences limited access to fundamental rights. Linguist Joni Oyserman identified this problem and has received a Meijers grant to fund her investigation.
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‘Give farmers more freedom in how they reduce nitrogen’
In his inaugural lecture Professor of Environmental Sustainability Jan Willem Erisman calls for local solutions that give people more freedom in how they meet environmental, nature and climate goals. This would allow farmers to come up with their own solutions to the nitrogen problem. The idea ties…
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It doesn’t really exist, but I am one: a tropical lawyer!
Alumna Janine Ubink is a Professor of Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University. She researches legal pluralism in various areas of Africa and calls herself a ‘tropical lawyer’. She says, ‘It doesn't really exist, but I am one.’
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Monica den Boer appointed as endowed professor Police Studies: ‘The blue line in my life’
Monica den Boer, who has decades of experience within police and defence and was also active as a Member of Parliament (D66), has been appointed extraordinary professor of Police Studies.
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‘We are destroying our own planet' (and Latin America pays the price)
The whole world gets raw materials from Latin America, but at the expense of nature. Håvar Solheim researches the role of organised crime in this environmental crime and Soledad Valdivia researches sustainable urban initiatives in Latin America. What do these university lecturers think the future of…
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Satellites reveal: these ecosystems are the most vulnerable to drought
More severe droughts that will also last longer: this will primarily be a problem for irrigated croplands, as discovered by environmental scientist Qi Chen. Mixed forests with a variety of plant species will be the least vulnerable. Chen compared the effects of drought on different ecosystems across…