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- Evening Lecture Series: Practitioners in War
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Leiden Medievalists Blog meet-up
Lecture
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Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey Introduces the Film “Obchod na Korze”
Lecture
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim
Lecture
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Spatial Narratives of Historical Experiences: 3D Visualizations of Prisoner Art as Tools for Knowledge Production and Transfer at Holocaust Memorials
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Introducing 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction' (Purdue Univ. Press, 2024)
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels Grant
Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like material, is often used for making tools by Mesoamerican societies. In Honduras, certain obsidian artefacts do not yet have a known provenance. PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter and Assistant Professor Dennis Braekmans were awarded a Corrie Bakels Grant to explore thus…
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman"
Lecture
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
PhD defence
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Debtors in Possession: A Legal Comparative Study of the Role of Debtors in US, EU and Dutch Restructuring and Insolvency Law
PhD defence
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Archaeologists bring experts on human evolution together with Kiem grant
Leiden University's Kiem grants aim to help develop new interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaborations and encounters. In the first round, a Kiem grant was awarded to a group of researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the LUMC for the organisation of a symposium…
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How can we make better use of natural resources?
Mining for natural resources harms the environment. But we desperately need them, for both the development of countries and the transition to a sustainable energy system. Professor of Sustainable Resource Use Ester van der Voet researches how we can reduce the environmental impact of natural resources…
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Studieavond ‘Internationale Politiesamenwerking’
Lecture
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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Interpreters’ Note-Taking: an international writing system?
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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What do maths and blood clots have to do with each other?
Mathematics can help predict thrombosis. Mathematician Mark Alber has developed models that even aid in suggesting treatments. In the Kloosterman lecture on 27 June, he will explain how this works.
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis
At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, but building materials. And recent ones at that! Check out the exhibition on Legos lost at sea, conceived and assembled by PhD candidate Maia Casna. ‘These…
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution'
A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Washington. Americanist Sara Polak discusses the events.
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Manga and Militarism
Lecture
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Accessible Education
Studying with a disability often costs additional time and energy. Leiden University wants to do all it can to offer equal chances to students with a disability. What can you do to support a student with a disability?
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
- Conference Empirics and Consumer Law in Changing Markets
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder
Lecture
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An Unusually Caring Chigo (Buddhist Acolyte): The Medieval Japanese Tale of a Homoerotic Love Triangle and Its Hollow Center
Lecture
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Decolonisation for whom?: Museum Practices in Europe, Asia, and Japan
Lecture
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’
Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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Rombouts-Shilin Conference
Conference
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Lecture: Operational deployment of armed forces (Dutch)
Lecture
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation
Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation for the advancement of study and research on the history of Latin America. She receives a research grant of €10.000 (max).
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Ski Slopes, Sandy Beaches, and the Politics of Tourism in Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Lecture
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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The History of Hebrew
Lecture
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EU Global Gateway Strategy: Transforming relations with African countries in a new geopolitical era. A practitioner's perspective
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Driving EU policy: Making rules for the European car industry in times of crisis
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Concerns about sexual offences in Leiden
Leiden University is deeply concerned to have learned that several women have recently been harassed and assaulted in the centre of Leiden. In one case, this appeared to involve rape. We understand that people are upset, especially our students.
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Support and community
If you need any help with your research or if you encounter problems during your PhD track, Leiden University provides several different types of support for PhD candidates. There are also groups, networks and communities in which you can meet other PhD candidates.
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Archaeological Forum: Gül Aktürk en Murat Dirican
Lecture
- European Union Seminar Series