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From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Human Trafficking, Beautiful Women, the Land of the Cockaigne, and Burmese Bells
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
This lecture will reflect on two intersecting themes: the rise of women as artists and as subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China. Against the backdrop of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence of feminism between 1910 and 1940, the…
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…
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Fifty Years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Conference
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
After the first public screening in Paris in 1895, when did the cinematograph arrive in Istanbul? Where and by whom were the first cinema screenings held? How did the Ottoman Palace and Ottoman Society react to the emergence of the new medium at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the…
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Special Guest Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
CoGloSS session held by Prof. Dániel Margócsy (University of Cambridge )
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H2OLAW conference: law-science interfaces within the law of the sea and fresh water law
We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference on the theme of 'H2OLAW: law-science interfaces within the law of the sea and fresh water law', hosted by Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. The conference will take place on 26 and 27 September 2024 at Leiden University…
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Growth Models, Carbon Pathways, and the Geopolitics of the Green Transition
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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50 years after the Chilean coup: The echoes of the 11 September 1973 today
On Thursday 14 September 2023 four scholars from Chilean origin will debate at roundtable about the relevance of the 1973 military coup and its aftermath on the current political discussions in Chile.
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Meet your Graduate School – Supervisor and the final phase of the PhD track
This meeting aims to give you’re an overview what your tasks as a supervisor are what the timeline looks like so you can guide our PhD candidate to a successful PhD defense. This event is still open for registration.
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Meet your Graduate School – Supervisor and the final phase of the PhD track
This meeting aims to give you’re an overview what your tasks as a supervisor are what the timeline looks like so you can guide our PhD candidate to a successful PhD defense.
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Book Launch - The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment.…
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a fiery plane crash on 23 August 2023 has triggered widespread speculation about the continuity of the Wagner Group’s operations and the consolidation of power within its ranks. The status of the paramilitary cartel—that Prigozhin and Wagner’s top commander, Dmitry Utkin,…
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Church and Politics, Humanity and Resistance: The Case of the Bethel Church Asylum in The Hague
Leveraging a clause in Dutch law that forbids the police from entering a place of worship when a service is ongoing, a local church in The Hague held a non-stop, 24/7 worship service that lasted for three months. It did so to shelter an Armenian family seeking asylum and facing deportation by the Dutch…
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international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
After 75 years of Palestinian struggle against Israeli settler colonialism, a new crisis point has been reached since Hamas’ attacks on 7th October 2023 and the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. The…
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Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
How did humans transform the planet in the past millennia and how did this process accelerate in the recent past? How is the human impact on the world’s oceans different from the devastation of terrestrial ecosystems and can we still change the course we are currently in? World-renowned marine and fisheries…
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Open-air cinema in front of the Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Fancy getting the academic year off to a good start after a well-deserved holiday? Come to the open-air cinema in front of the Kamerlingh Onnes Building on 7 September! From 20.15 on, all law school students and staff are welcome to secure a seat. The film starts at 20.45 - when it is dark enough…
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Celebrating Dutch Indology - 100 Years of Friends of the Kern Institute
On December 1, 1924 professor Jean Philippe Vogel founded the Society Kern Institute in order to establish the Kern Institute, an institute of Indian archeology at the University of Leiden. The Kern Institute opened its doors in April 1925 and grew in the following decades. The society under the current…
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000
On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000”. The conference asks: why is it always India that has been imagined as a wonder, and what did that wonder mean, intellectually…
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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The Optimization and Scale-Up of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to Formate
Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper Prof. dr. G.J.M. Gruter dr. K.J.P. Schouten Summary In this thesis, we explain why formate is one of the best products to pursue for electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECCR) and why a gas diffusion electrode is the best technology to use for this reaction. GDEs…
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Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Did you know that there were internment camps in India during World War II? Have you wondered who was incarcerated there? Why do we know so little about their experiences? This presentation explores civilian internment in India through a small cast of characters unwittingly drawn into and implicated…
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Investigating structure and function of the dopaminergic midbrain - with a special focus on the human VTA
Prod.dr. B. Hommel Prof.dr. B. U. Forstmann (UvA) dr. Z. Sjoerds Summary This dissertation explores the human dopaminergic midbrain, focusing on the ventral tegmental area (VTA), using advanced neuroimaging techniques such as 7 Tesla (7T) MRI. While the substantia nigra (SN) has traditionally been the…
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A conversation with Erik Akerboom, Director general of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD)
Lecture
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia
Written during an internationalised peace process that saw the country administered by a United Nations Transitional Authority for 18 months, Cambodia’s 1993 Constitution is ostensibly guided by principles of liberal democracy and rule of law. Yet, even before a recent trend of (re)autocratisation saw…
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From Cremation Ground to Temple Niche: The Evolution of the Fierce Goddess in Medieval India
VVIK Lecture
- anti-coercion instrument: lawful international countermeasures or violation of the WTO regime?
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
In ancient times, the desert in the Udhruh region in Jordan was transformed into a green oasis. An intricate network of underground water channels was part of an ancient system of water management, storing water and preventing loss through evaporation. Archaeologist Mark Driessen found a new way to…
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Sacred Serpents of the Mekong: Nāga Myths and Magic in Contemporary Thailand
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing Only when three major statements on open access were made, in respectively Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin, science policy and research funding got deeper involved in the open science movement, leading to the development…
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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The Inauguration of the Fonds Oostenrijkse Studiën at the Leiden University Fund (LUF)
Please RSVP to to Fleur van der Kaay at kaay@luf.leidenuniv.nl by June 14th .
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Dilemmas of the Kalwars: Caught between Critique and Conformism of Caste
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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“A rich material”: Medical Experiments under the Auspices of the Colonial Army in Indonesia
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Increasing public perceived legitimacy of the European Union through the integration of psychological insights into law
PhD defence
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On the origin of ‘bloopergenes’: unraveling the evolution of the balanced lethal system in Triturus newts
PhD defence
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Silver of the Possessed. Egyptian zar jewellery between 1900-1980
Prof.dr. L.P.H.M. Buskens Prof.dr. R.T.J. Cappers
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Influence of the Electrode-electrolyte Interface on Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper
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Patient-derived models of breast cancer: A breakthrough story of the duct
Prof.dr. J. Jonkers Prof. dr. J. Wesseling dr. C.L.G.J. Scheele (KU Leuven)
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Aspects of the Analysis of Cell Imagery: from Shape to Understanding
Prof.dr.ir. F.J. Verbeek dr. L. Cao
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Skin and Beyond: Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature
PhD defence
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Building Assyrian Society: The Case of the Tell Sabi Abyad Dunnu
PhD defence
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The developing infant gut microbiota: mathematical predictions of the effects of oligosaccharides
Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Summary See Dutch site.