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Back to Leiden for the Science Run: ‘As founder, I just have to participate'
Once a year, former employee and avid runner Dennis Hoencamp returns to his old workplace. That’s when he competes in the Leiden Science Run. As an event coordinator, he once devised the relay race as an anniversary activity. It grew into an annual event for the entire University and the Bio Science…
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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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…
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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Vidi grants for research on sexual intimacy using robots and the life-course impact of criminal sanctions
Two colleagues have each received a prestigious Vidi grant. We spoke to criminologist and Associate Professor Hilde Wermink, and Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Associate Professor of eLaw, about what this grant means to them and their research plans.
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In Memoriam - Bas Edixhoven
On January 16, 2022, our respected and beloved colleague Prof. dr. Bas Edixhoven passed away after a short period of serious illness.
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Don’t take everything in a scientific journal at face value, students learn in this new module
In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Anouk van der Weiden, together with a team of colleagues and students, developed a module on critical reading, application, and writing. 'Students often think: who am I to criticise a published…
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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Staff symposium on student well-being – A shared path to well-being: students and staff
Conference
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2024
Festival
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2023 Conference on International Cyber Security: War and Peace. Conflict, Behaviour and Diplomacy in Cyberspace
Conference
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2024 Conference on International Cyber Security: Democracy and Cyberspace
Conference
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LUC Major Choice Declaration Deadline
Study information, Major Choice Event
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Consensus and ideology in expert communities: The case of economics
Seminar
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Transferable Skills
Lunchbyte XL
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Gerbrands Lecture – Keywords: Conspiracy, Race, Love
Lecture, Gerbrands Lecture
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Thiosugars: Reactivity, methodology and applications
PhD defence
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Synthetic peptides as tools in chemical immunology
PhD defence
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Radical Spotlights: Economics of Political Chaos
Inaugural lecture
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Film screening: The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace in Aceh
Film screening
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Meet your Graduate School – Start of your PhD
Study information, Graduate School
- Opening facultair jaar
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Symposium in Honour of Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer
symposium
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Art exhibit Jeanne Viet
Arts and culture
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No one is a censor: How Chinese book editors consider potential consequences of their decisions
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Legitimation and nationalism in official Chinese Television Documentaries
Lecture, China Seminar
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Transforming Caste: Circus and Body Politics in Colonial Malabar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Break for Landlocked: Migration Policy Reform in Kazakhstan
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
PhD defence
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Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Predrinks Oort lecture
Alumni event
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Suicides in Lithuania in the late 19th − early 20th centuries
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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The Loyalty Trap: Federal Civil Servants Under Trump
Lecture, Event
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Metacontrol in the Brain
PhD defence
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Forecasting Finlandization: How will Xi’s China seek to revise East Asia’s regional order?
Lecture
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The Panama Canal: unveiling the transition to Panamanian Management
Lecture
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The situation in Israel/Palestine and the role of courts
Inaugural panel discussion
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Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art
Conference
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe with Observational Cosmology
Lecture
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Gender and International Criminal Law
Conference, Seminar