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Panel discussion: Green Colonialism
Debate
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Screening documentary on peacekeepers in Mali: Colombes Sans Gravité/Doves Without Gravity
Screening documentary
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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Young people and children and the counter-smuggling project
Lecture
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Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
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'Meet and greet' with the directors of Leiden University’s Institutes Abroad
Informatiesessie
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Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
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Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272765
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Latin American Studies Program at Leiden
Alumni event, Lustrum
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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The Cosmos Malabaricus programme: researching early modern Kerala through Dutch sources
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Modal phrase reduplication in Xiangzhou Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Conference, Workshop
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The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension
PhD defence
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Newsletter Student Support FSW April 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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Tackling societal issues with a new vision on public leadership
The Leiden Leadership Centre (LLC) aims to connect science with practice when it comes to public leadership. The Centre, founded by, among others, Dr. Ben Kuipers and Prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld, is collaborating with a number of organisations. A recent result was a research assignment for a new vision…
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’
How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving from a have-to to a want-to’
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Exploring Leiden University College: A personal journey with alumna Georgina Kuipers
It has been just over a decade since the first students graduated with Leiden University’s unique Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor degree. We caught up with one of those pioneering graduates.
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi
Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the algorithm that made him successful, the role of a university in our society and his ambitions at Siemens. ‘I was looking for Siemens, and they were looking…
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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Quietly Otherwise: Atmospheres of Sharing in Unusual Ik Families
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A Tale of Two Complementizers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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Nested garden-path sentences and the syntax-prosody interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
Meet-up and drinks
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Workshop: Sharing field notes
Workshop
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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Frying and tweeting. Perception and production aspects of social meaning as a change determinant
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Between deference and destitution: Requesting relief in Scottish pauper letters, 1750-1910
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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On Mandarin modals and the distribution of subjects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Politics in Late Imperial Austria and Contemporary Europe: Back to Normal?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers
Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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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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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about the effect the drugs can have on depression, anxiety and PTSS, but at the same time they have some doubts. ‘The hype is bound to crash before long.’
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Just Peace Dialogue: Imagining Peace
Just Peace Festival