685 search results for “arts” in the Staff website
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Christmas cooking workshop
Staff Association
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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Anniversary activity: Canal concert
Arts and culture
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Enabling the most impact from Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) research
Working Group
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Brave Young Minds
Festival
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Brewing beer
Staff Association
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference
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Expert Meeting: Regenerative Curating
Arts and culture
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The Suite: Final Presentations of the Stage Courses
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘A lot is expected of students nowadays’
How can staff help create a healthy and inclusive learning environment? How do today’s students differ from previous generations? And what does this mean for how we guide and support them? These questions were the focus of the ‘Today’s Students’ symposium on 25 March.
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’
From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
- Workshop: Other forms of embodying knowledge
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Summer tours
Arts and culture
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Masterclass Leadership: Shakespeare & Retorica
Leadership
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition
Lecture
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Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them
Workshop
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Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
Meet-up and drinks
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International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
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Partnering Heritage? Developing Academic Agendas for Una Europa from Southern Africa
Network event
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts
The Schoof government, which has since assumed a caretaker role, presented its coalition agreement last year, followed later by its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly (see updates below) look at the consequences of what…
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Staff symposium on student well-being 'Today's Students'
Conference
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Professional Development Exchange Hub: what courses are on offer?
Education, Organisation, Research
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Staff symposium on student well-being – A shared path to well-being: students and staff
Conference