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What you should know about COP29?
Climate change is affecting all areas of human life. 2024 has been the hottest year on record and natural disasters are becoming increasingly frequent around the globe. Every year since 1995, national delegations come together to address the climate crisis through the Conference of the Parties to the…
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Smart monitoring of test subjects is the future of clinical research
Knowing whether or not a treatment is working just by wearing your watch? Data scientist Ahnjili ZhuParris has identified a lot of opportunities for the use of machine learning in clinical research to monitor test subjects at home.
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Progress in equality and law for women: the glass is half full
Following 40 years of research into the legal equality principle, Emeritus Professor Titia Loenen gave her valedictory lecture in which she took stock of the progress that has been achieved. She focused on equal rights for women and is cautiously optimistic, despite the current rise in conservatism…
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CADS Alumna writes children's book that encourages diversity and inclusiveness among children and their parents
Monique Tekstra-van Lochem decided to develop a book of her own that all children can recognize themselves in. In May "Hey, who are you?" will be released, a children's book in which twenty fictional children from all over the world take you with them into their daily lives.
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Essi Pekonen and Ingmar Jansen win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2022
October and November not only bring a number of proud Political Science graduates, it is also the season to determine who wrote the best bachelor’s thesis. For 2021-2022, fifteen theses were nominated. During the various graduation ceremonies the two final winners were announced: Essi Maria Teresia…
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’
How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly appointed distinguished professor Arnold Tukker explained.
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access
Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access and are downloadable via Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) Digital Collections. The rich maps are an early example of academic collaboration between the…
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Student protests in Serbia: Evolution, prospects and lessons
On June 16, 2025, the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University hosted a panel debate about the ongoing mass student-led protests in Serbia. The protests have shaken the increasingly illiberal regime in Serbia to its core and have grown into the largest student protests in Europe since 196…
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Alumnus Willem van der Muur: ‘I wanted to work somewhere I could make an impact’
Willem van der Muur worked at the Van Vollenhoven Institute as a PhD candidate from 2013 to 2019. After completing his doctorate he left for Indonesia to work for the World Bank. There, he is leading a project to register land rights.
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International Studies degree: a skillset to navigate the world
On Friday 29 August 2025, 370 students received their Bachelor's degree in International Studies. The diplomas were awarded in the historic setting of the Pieterskerk in Leiden. Family members, friends, and staff gathered to celebrate this joyous occasion with the graduates in a packed Pieterskerk.
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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When History Repeats Itself: Knowledge in Times of Crisis
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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The Politics of Citizenship: Governing Religion through Refugee Control in Lebanon
PhD defence
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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Symposium: Visualizing Ancient Histories
Symposium
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Join the anniversary day of Public Administration
Conference
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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Just Peace Dialogue: Climate and Peace
Just Peace Festival
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Movie Screening: I'm Not the River Jhelum (2022)
Movie Screening | SSEALS
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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The City on a Lake: Particular Environments and Global Paradigms in the Making of Mexico City
Lecture
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Opening exhibition Kieran Smith
Arts and culture
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Asia Academy #05: Sanctioning North-Korea
Lecture
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Leiden Africa Platform Annual Meeting
Annual meeting
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Saving His Job, Not Hers: Selective Protection in Automation-Driven Job Loss
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics
PhD defence
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Dao is in Weeds 道在稊稗
Lecture
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Special Guest Lecture: Colonialism, Citizenship and the challenges for Decolonial work in the Netherlands
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS)
Symposium
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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One-time viewing: early photos of Africa by Alexine Tinne
Inloopavond
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
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Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…