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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives
Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden University interdisciplinary symposium will explore new perspectives as a basis for policies. Organising professors Carsten Stahn and Pieter ter Keurs…
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Introducing: Neilabh Sinha
Neilabh Sinha was awarded a subsidy from NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen and started as a PhD candidate at the Institute for History in September. He introduces himself.
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Aphroditi Zoulfoukaridis: ‘I hope to keep doing this work for a very long time’
Aphroditi Zoulfoukaridis is the manager of LeidenGlobal, a partnership of several faculties at the University and other academic and cultural institutions in Leiden. In her free time, she enjoys visiting cultural events and loves to travel.
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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In Memoriam: Sabine Luning (30 augustus 1959 - 6 maart 2025)
Last Thursday, March 6, Sabine Luning passed away after an illness of more than six months. Sabine was an inspiring teacher who enthused generations of anthropology students with both the theoretical side of social science and the practice of intensive fieldwork. As a researcher, she produced innovative…
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Erasmus+ grant for 13 exchange projects
Thirteen Leiden University exchange projects have been awarded an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant. The total award of around 450,000 euros will enable 103 students and staff to go on an exchange.
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Two awards for biodiversity research in Leiden
From more natural beaches to research on how peace advances biodiversity. Two Leiden research projects have been awarded funding from the European Biodiversa+ partnership. These are grants for interdisciplinary research on restoring biodiversity.
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Introducing: Timo McGregor
Timo McGregor recently joined the Institute for History as a NWO-Veni research fellow. His research explores legal and political thought in early modern European empires, with a particular focus on mobility, political belonging, and enslavement. Below he introduces himself.
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Executive Board column: Working on internationalisation with European universities
Our university recently joined the European university alliance Una Europa. Staff from the 11 affiliated universities met in Leiden last week to discuss our collaboration.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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Adjectival Doubling Construction - 'I almost forgot the most importantest part'
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Frying and tweeting. Perception and production aspects of social meaning as a change determinant
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272142
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0715272033
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Liesbeth van VlietFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
l.m.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Wilma Resing
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
resing@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Carolien RieffeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
crieffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273674
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Pop/Jazz Choir
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Reading group: Abandon All Hope?
Reading group
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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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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Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in peace and security
Debate
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Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
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From research in space to director on earth
After ten years and one day, Leiden Observatory has a new director. As of 1 September, Ignas Snellen will set the course for the astronomical institute. In this interview, you will get to know Ignas. Or at least a little. That is why we gave him five dilemmas and asked the people around him who he really…
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Success with NWO for social and behavioural scientists
Ten Leiden social and behavioural scientists have successfully applied for the NWO Open Competition. With this Open Competition, NWO gives researchers the chance to start small, high-risk, innovative or promising research projects.
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Assessor talk: Ebrar Kaya succeeds Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens as assessor
Participating in discussions as a student, at an administrative level? Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens has done so for the past two years as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. Ebrar Kaya will take over the position of assessor starting this September. In this interview we look back and ahead at the asse…
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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Deans celebrate ten years Honours Academy: ‘We are educating people who can make a difference’
The Honours Academy celebrates its tenth anniversary. How did the institute develop over time, and what are aspirations for the future? We speak with the current Dean and a predecessor who was there at the Academy's founding. A conversation about identity, inspiration, and impact ensues. ‘It is about…
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Alumna Mojan Samadi: ‘Femicide is not about the perpetrator’s motive’
Mojan Samadi obtained her PhD in 2020 in Leiden and has since remained at the university as an assistant professor. Her research currently focuses on gender and criminal law, with a key question being how criminal law should address femicide.
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Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US
Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Martijn Kitzen has been appointed professor by Special Appointment of Military Science: 'It's time for Europe to make a stand.'
Martijn Kitzen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Military Science at ISGA on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Society for War Studies (KVBK).
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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Petrus Camper’s Research on Elephants: Cabinets, Menageries, and the Zoology of Exotic Animals in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch
Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture
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The Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
PhD defence
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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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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
PhD defence
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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Giftedness PhD peer support group
Personal development
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Developments in local politics research
Lecture
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
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'Au Liban', but 'en Iran': external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars