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Understanding teacher agency in universities: Why and how lecturers shape and navigate university teaching practices
PhD defence
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
Our ever-increasing reliance on software and technologies, out of convenience, necessity or otherwise, binds us to supranational and commercial companies that provide them. Is it essential that governments, universities, and researchers ensure that they continue to be in control of their data and software?…
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Space for academic debate: security at universities
How should the Netherlands and the broader academic community respond to international conflicts? The ‘Space for academic debate’ (‘Ruimte voor academisch debat’) lecture series was launched on 14 June 2024 at Leiden Law School. The series is designed to offer space for Leiden Law School’s students…
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Talk by Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University)
On Wednesday the 11th of October Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University) will visit us to give a talk about her new book Being Dead Otherwise (Duke University Press 2023). The talk will take place in our Faculty building, room TBA.
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Meeting University Council and Executive Board
View the meeting schedule and the agenda of the next meeting of the University Council. Do you want to attend a meeting via MS Teams? That's possible after registering with registrar.
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Meeting University Council and Executive Board
View the meeting schedule and the agenda of the next meeting of the University Council. Do you want to attend a meeting via MS Teams? That's possible after registering with registrar.
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Meeting University Council and Executive Board
View the meeting schedule and the agenda of the next meeting of the University Council. Do you want to attend a meeting via MS Teams? That's possible after registering with registrar.
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Combating loneliness in Living Lab
Master's students of Vitality & Ageing work together with older individuals in the so-called ‘Living Lab’ to combat loneliness. You can watch four brief video’s that show their creative solutions for the course ‘the older individual’ that is coordinated by health psychologist Sandra van Dijk and former…
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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The wellbeing initiatives: 'Care about your own wellbeing'
Would you like to take a walk with a fellow student who you don’t know? That is the idea behind Walk & Talk. With this new initiative, International Studies aims to provide more opportunities for social contact.
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Find a coach
Are you looking for a coach? If so, you’re welcome to contact one of the university’s internal or external coaches; you can do this directly yourself, after choosing a coach who seems suitable.
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
The INVISIHIST research project invites all faculty and students to a special lecture hosted on Thursday, 14th March with Dr Mark Jones, Assistant Professor at University College Dublin.
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Second Social Safety Dialogue Session: Power Relations and Dynamics
The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) is excited to launch the Social Safety Open Dialogue Sessions in collaboration with Human Resources (HR). These sessions aim to create a space where everyone's voice matters. We want to turn discussions into tangible actions, ensuring that the community's collective…
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Criminal Liability of Pilots in Aviation Accident Cases
PhD defence
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Well-being moment for staff: Spring lunch walk
The days are lengthening, the birds are singing, and the first plants are starting to blossom. Spring is here! Would you like to enjoy the new season during your break from work? Healthy University is organizing lunch walks for university staff in Leiden and The Hague. Whether you are already used to…
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Underground China
Lecture, China Seminar
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FAO at the crossroads: democratic reformism or "market authoritarianism"? The case of the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma
Join us and our guest speaker, Dr. Mario de Prospo, to explore the role of the United Nations in assisting the Chilean government in implementing agrarian reforms during the 1960s and 1970s, shedding light on the influence of multinational expertise in governance. Focusing on the role played by US economist…
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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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Well-being moment for staff: Summer lunch walk
Summer is here! Would you like to enjoy the new season during your break from work? Healthy University is organizing lunch walks for university staff in Leiden and The Hague. Whether you have gone on a walks with colleagues during lunch before, or if this is your first time, you are welcome…
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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
Lecture
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Recap LUMAN Launch
On Thursday May 11, medical anthropologists from Leiden University organized a festive opening of their new network, the Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN). In August 2022, these Leiden-based scholars started gathering and organizing this new network with two main goals, namely to…
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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Vici grant for research on the formation of galaxies
How do galaxies form? That is what astronomer Mariska Kriek will be researching in the coming years. She received an NWO Vici grant of 1.5 million euros to study galaxies in the early universe. ‘This research uses new and unprecedented observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These allow…
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LERU conference back in Leiden after 20 years
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) was launched in Leiden 20 years ago. LERU is a partnership of 23 leading research universities, including the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Leiden, Leuven and Heidelberg. It celebrated this anniversary last week with a multi-day conference in…
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A quick call with Ella Picavet on affordable period products
Many will add them to their shopping list without a second thought, but what if you don't have enough money to buy period products each month? The university has recently started providing packs of affordable sanitary pads and tampons in the SchoolSupply vending machines. ‘It's just like providing toilet…
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Healthy University Week: Spring into action!
Spring is the season of new beginnings: it’s green outside, the days become longer and the natural world buzzes with new life. It’s a wonderful season to get outdoors and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. A time to leave those screens and meeting rooms behind and get moving. Did you know that a few…
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this edition…
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Taskforce promotes the interests of contract and external PhD candidates: ‘We must level out the playing field’
The University wants to improve its support for contract and external PhD candidates. A taskforce headed by Dean of FGGA Erwin Muller has made over fifty recommendations, varying from an improved PhD portal and flexible work places on the campus to the right to vote in employee participation bodies.…
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Plans for Faculty of Humanities financial policy are now known: ‘Shared responsibility necessary’
The Faculty of Humanities is heading for a financial deficit in 2024 and subsequent years. After the report of the analysis core group, the Perspective 2028 steering group submitted their advisory in report in May. The Faculty Board has now has drawn up a Plan of Action, in consultation with the institutes…
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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
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OSCoffee: Research Software on the rise at Leiden University
Research Software on the rise at Leiden University As one of the four pillars of Leiden University's Open Science Program, research software is receiving increased attention as part of our workflows and labour. But what does it mean to center research software at our institution? Where would…
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities Conference Governance of Migration and Diversity
At this conference, we look at how the past, present and future of the governance of migration and diversity intertwine. How, when, and why does the past structure today’s society, and what can or should we expect for the future? Migrations in past decades and decisions taken on how to deal with migration…
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Early Modern Academics and their networks: new perspectives on university history
Conference, Annual Conference of the Flemish-Dutch Society for Early Modern History
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Inclusive leadership for Depolarisation at Leiden University
Inclusive leaders create welcoming environments where everyone can be themselves. However, polarisation poses a major challenge. This way of thinking promoting simplistic 'us vs. them' thinking. In this three-days masterclass, we explore the causes and impact of social polarisation and improve your…
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Are there questions that should not be raised at university?
The university’s Academic Freedom Core Team is holding a dialogue session on the question: Are there questions that should not be raised at university? All Leiden University students and staff are welcome to participate. The session will be in Dutch but you will be able to ask and answer questions in…
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Leiden University in The Hague – Researchers of the City
Exhibition
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Leiden University in The Hague – Researchers of the City
Exhibition
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Leiden University Green Office / L.A.S. Terra Movie Night
The Leiden University Green Office (LUGO) has teamed up with L.A.S. Terra to help start the Archaeology Green Team at the faculty. To celebrate this special occasion, we organised a movie night just for you. Of course, snacks and drinks will be provided by us Want to join? Sign up via the form and…
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Shaping the future with stories from the past
An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.
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High school students get a taste of psychology: 'Later I'll become a neuroscientist'
How does loneliness work? What sometimes makes friendships complicated for autistic people? And why can the school building be such an unpleasant place for some pupils? Pupils explored this during their pre-university classes. 'I now have a good idea of what studying psychology entails.'
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Symposium on furthering cross-university academic cooperation
The central government of the is no longer propagating competition in the higher education. Quite the opposite the cooperation between Dutch Universities in education, research and valorisation, is now promoted from the Ministry of education. But how? There was no blueprint provided, so academics have…
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Hester Bijl on academic freedom, LERU and the General Assembly in Leiden
Last week, Leiden University welcomed the rectors of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) to the autumn edition of the Rector’s Assembly. They discussed research, innovation and education policy within the European Union, the challenges and opportunities surrounding defence research,…
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Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’
Interview with Pieter Slaman who received the LUS Education Prize. What makes the award so special to him and does he already know how he will use his prize money?
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University and Erasmus MC. With an appointment at a minimum of two of these five academic institutions, they combine technology and healthcare…
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Course for (new) members of Leiden University boards of examiners
Didactics
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’
The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture.
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Translating medical anthropological academic insights to policy recommendations
How do we balance policy critique with constructive policy recommendations? How do we navigate power relations between policy makers and (disadvantaged) communities, without estranging either? And what are particularly productive methods for translating our medical anthropological insights into poli…