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Stolen Focus: Our Brains Online - The Reading List
There is a reasonable chance that you came to this reading list through a social medium. Now it's our job to keep your attention. We are going to do our best. There are so many distractions; from notifications on your phone, to another screen near you, that may also be screaming for attention. Every…
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Finding our way out of the hyper-nervous society? ‘Time to pause and reflect on our basic human needs’
Hit the brakes! That’s the advice of the Council for Public Health and Society in a recent report. Eight psychologists share their insights on how to slow down and reconnect.
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Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
Lecture
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Film Screening: Foragers
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Tuesday Talks: Science Insights | 12 November 2024
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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The City on a Lake: Particular Environments and Global Paradigms in the Making of Mexico City
Lecture
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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11th International conference on industrial ecology
Conference
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Beat the Professor PubQuiz
Festival, We are Science week
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Green Friday in de Hortus
Green Friday
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Research Night: Re-wriggling the Museum
Arts and culture
- Workshop Violence Studies - A research agenda
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The Commentary on the Remarks and Admonitions of Ibn Sina by the Shi’i Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Or.95 in the Leiden University Library
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Book Launch Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War
Book launch
- SSEALS - 2025
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025
- Law & Digitalisation Meetup
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Ethics in Cybersecurity and AI
Conference
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Text Mining with Python
Course
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Towards Superconducting Spintronics with RuO2 and CrO2 nanowires
PhD defence
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OSCoffee: A bird's eye view of Open Science Developments, Challenges and Future Directions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Lecture
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Suriname symposium: focus on diversity and biodiversity
Conference
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LDE Space Day
Conference
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Spin Transport and Superconductivity in Half-metallic Nanowires and Junctions
PhD defence
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Explaining a Probabilistic Prediction on the Simplex with Shapley Compositions
Lecture
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EScience event
Lecture
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Opening Herta Mohr
Opening
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Hannah Critchlow on Science Communication
Lecture
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Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder
Lecture
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Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks
Lecture
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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LCN2 Seminar October 2023
Lecture
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Tidal Behaviour
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Plotting human-plant futures in Uganda
Lecture
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SecurDomino Symposium: Integrating safety and security in industrial threat risk analysis to prevent domino effects
Lecture, Symposium
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One last time (as Dean)
Dear colleagues and students,
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Step by Step to the Future: A Conversation Between Two Deans
As one prepares for the final sprint, the other stands ready at the starting blocks: in just a few weeks, Dean Mark Rutgers will pass the baton to his successor, Henk te Velde. In the meantime, both are working hard to ensure a smooth transition to a new faculty leadership. Henk is already regularly…
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End Fossil occupation of Lipsius building
Members of the End Fossil climate action group, including students from Leiden University, have occupied two rooms in the Lipsius building at the Faculty of Humanities today (23 November 2023).
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From Excel to PLAN: instant insight into teaching tasks at the click of a button
With the introduction of PLAN in education, the Institute of Psychology is taking an important step forward. The complex project has been carefully executed and the system fully set up. It offers teachers advantages such as ease of use and transparency. Zsuzsika Sjoerds did a pilot and tested it.
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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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Sanneke Kuipers appointed professor of Crisis Governance: 'Crises arise from very mundane causes'
The Executive Board appointed Sanneke Kuipers as full professor effective January 1, 2022. Her chair is Crisis Governance. She combines this chair with her position as education director of ISGA, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. A conversation about working 24/7 in crisis management, her…
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Alternative Perspective 2028: Mark Rutgers and Casper de Jonge in discussion
Under extreme pressure and in agreement with the Faculty Board, the programme chairs, represented by a core group, have worked over recent weeks on additional recommendations based on the Perspective 2028 plan. On 1 December they presented their Alternative Perspective 2028 to the Faculty Board. The…
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‘Divisions are there to be bridged’
Annetje Ottow is stepping down as President of Leiden University’s Executive Board on 1 September 2025 after almost five years in the role. She looks back at the highs and lows – and ahead to what’s next.