789 search results for “community conservation connections” in the Staff website
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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‘The gatekeepers’ van het internet; waarom een ‘gratis’ internet niet bestaat
Of je nu appt, online nieuws leest, of door Instagram scrolt, jouw gedrag wordt gemonitord. Sterker nog: wát jij ziet, wordt door anderen bepaald. Promovendus Aleksandre Zardiashvili onderzocht de impact van online advertenties en de macht van de bedrijven erachter.
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Leiden students develop highly contagious card game
Infecting each other with viruses and bacteria while protecting yourself with medicines and vaccinations. Sounds like a fun evening, right? Master students Life Science & Technology Rafael Jezior and Dennis de Beeld certainly think so. Together, they developed ImmunoWars: an exciting card game based…
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Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’
Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psychology. Their aim: giving the subject a more prominent position in the academic’s mind.
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Conference, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Open Science Week at Archaeology: Let's talk about publishing
Festival
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Open Science Week 2025
Festival
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Hans SlabbekoornFaculty of Science
h.w.slabbekoorn@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275049
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Bleda DüringFaculty of Archaeology
b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276449
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
n.lawtoo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272644
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273026
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Hora Hester Bijl! Farewell to a rector who steered the university through turbulent times
The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.
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Archaeologist at Binnenhof: ‘Even the staff ate heron’
An Iron Age skull, a unicorn for cleaning your ear and thousands of beer jugs. Alumnus and archaeologist Chris Muysson has made remarkable discoveries at the Binnenhof government complex in The Hague. ‘Each puzzle piece tells us more about its history.’
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia”, led by Fenneke Sysling. Below they introduce themselves.
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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Open Science Week online
Festival
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Mark DriessenFaculty of Archaeology
m.j.driessen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271756
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Open Science Week at FSW: Think before you submit
Festival
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Looking Inside — 3D Imaging Reimagined
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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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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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Open Science Week at the Faculty of Humanities: Let’s open up!
Festival
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272208
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Gilles van WezelFaculty of Science
g.wezel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274310
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009503
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Centre for Digital Scholarship Summer Training Week
Seminars, workshops
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Just Peace Dialogue: Democracy and Peace
Just Peace Festival
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Leiden Anthropology Conference 2
Conference
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Interview Tom Theuns in IQ Magazine: “NATO Resembles a House of Cards”
The rise of authoritarianism, the strengthening of the radical right, and the role of the EU in defending democracy—these are just a few of the issues causing concern today. Is the EU capable of defending democratic values within the Union and beyond its borders? In an interview from the Lithuanian…