1,905 search results for “africa in the world” in the Staff website
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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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Liveblog: Leiden University strikes against government cuts
Staff from Leiden University are starting the Dutch universities’ staggered strike against the government cuts on 10 March. Follow the strike in this liveblog.
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Essays on Legislative Decision-making in the European Union
PhD defence
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Cultural Pathways to Climate Action in the Anglophone Caribbean
PhD defence
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Bibliometrics in the Context of Research Evaluation and Research Policy
PhD defence
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Constructing Colonial Legitimacy in the Moluccas, 1750-1870
PhD defence
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Alumnus Anne Speckens opened a mindfulness centre in Nijmegen
Professor of Psychiatry Anne Speckens studied medicine in Leiden and did her psychiatry training there too. She opened the Radboudumc Center for Mindfulness in Nijmegen. What does she do there and how does she look back on her time as a student?
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From inquisitive exchange student to Californian dream job
As an exchange student, alumna Jessica Ma was already looking for a bridge between statistics and the real world. In Leiden, she gained the experience to follow her interests and, after a few detours, she landed her ideal job with Disney in the United States.
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Alumnus Ruurd Kok seeks tangible traces of the past
After various jobs as an archaeologist, alumnus Ruurd Kok became a journalist. For the ‘Traces of Leiden University’ series, he explored the past of university buildings. ‘To me, history is interesting when you can touch it.’
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Temporalities of Futuring: Heritage, Custom and Tradition in the Himalayas
Workshop
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Redesigning assignments in the age of AI (Science)
Didactics, Working effectively, ICT
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Just Peace Dialogue: Imagining Peace
Just Peace Festival
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Teaching for Sustainable Tomorrows: A Climate Change Education Workshop
Study information, Workshop
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Contemporary Art History and Theory in a Global Perspective - Joint Art Talk by Matthew Rampley and Vera Wolff
Alumni event, Arts and Culture
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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Countering Misinformation in the EU: Origins, Evolution, and Prospects
PhD defence
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Collections in the spotlight (NINO & Leiden Papyrological Institute)
Exhibition
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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’
Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society accessible. And with her law degree and lived experience she has now made this her work. ‘You can achieve a lot with creative solutions.’
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In the Making #11: Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
Arts and culture
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Voices of Gen Z: Shaping Transitions in the City of Peace and Justice
Book Presentation
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[NEW DATE AND ROOM] Women, gig work, & Techno-Fixes in the Gulf Platform Economy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI
Conference, Kenniscafé
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Beyond the Great-Power Clash: ASEAN’s Quiet Power in the Indo-Pacific
Lecture and book presentation
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Grotius Dialogue: The Individual in the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice
Grotius Dialogue
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Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence in the Middle East
Debate
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"The First Stars" & "Uncovering the oldest stars in the Milky Way"
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Shadowboxing: Legal Mobilization and the Marginalization of Race in the Dutch Metropole, 1979-1999
PhD defence
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Making: Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet
Book talk
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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eLaw Summer School on Regulating AI in the EU Digital Market
Course, Summer School
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Non-Mainstream Perspectives on Economic Policy in the Netherlands: A Post Election Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
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Developments between Royal Houses in Java and the Dutch Royal Family in the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar
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XR ERA Meetup: 'Museums in the Metaverse: XR Experiences for Cultural Heritage'
Online webinar
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Alumni interview with Marleen Hogendoorn
Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ.
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a speaker with a background in neuroscience
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest lay in applying neuroscience in everyday life.
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Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
Conference
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Stakeholder alignment and management in public-private partnerships, applied in the health sector
Workshop
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Code as Critique: Relearning Technical Practice in the Ruins of Big Tech
Workshop
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Controlling Cosmopolitans: Mobility, Property, and Interpolity Law in the Dutch Atlantic
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication
Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science communication. The centre will foster a dialogue between researches and society and will gather and share expertise to make science communication more…
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Programmes FGGA popular among employers
What is the top 50 most popular studies among employers? That's what career platform Magnet.me investigated for the second consecutive year. What does it show? The programmes of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs are well represented in the ranking.
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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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Verticality, Agronomic Turn, and the Making of Colonial Botany in the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture