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Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
Lecture
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Signaling mental health problems: recognising and responding
Personal development
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Want to know more about GROW? Join the webinar
Webinar
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Power-sharing arrangements after civil war
Lecture
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Workshop Remindo: working with different types of closed questions
Didactics
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Feedback Fruits
Didactics
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Expert Meeting: Regenerative Curating
Arts and culture
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Introduction meeting for new lecturers
Course, Introductiebijeenkomst
- Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
Conference
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Talk by Matthias Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Lecture
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Teaching professionals: how to improve your course design
Didactics
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Open Educational Resources - TU Delft
Didactics, Career development
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Together we can: the why and how of climate activism
Debate
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Workshop Podcasts in education
Didactics
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Affective Computing and the interaction between humans and socially interactive agents.
Alumni event
- SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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Hybrid Teaching & Hybrid Meetings
Didactics
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‘We want our country back’: Banal nationalism and the continuing significance of the national in an uncertain world
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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NN CPC Loop The Hague
Running event
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Girlhood at War
Book presentation & panel discussion
- Language and the Human Past
- XR ERA Meetup: 'Can Virtual Reality improve cardiac emergency outcomes?'
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Training Active Bystander for FGGA staff
Communication, Personal development
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HR team stelt zich voor
Even voorstellen het HR team stelt zich voor
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brain
Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are now published in Nature, with both data and software openly shared. Cognitive neuroscientist Anne Urai: 'Any researcher with a good question can make use…
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Een bolwerk van vrijheid: hoe IncLUsion vluchtelingstudenten opneemt in de academische gemeenschap
The incLUsion programme offers refugees who are not yet able to enrol as regular students the opportunity to take part in university education. Simon (IncLUsion secretary) and Sharon (exchange officer) reflect on the graduation and explain how the programme works.
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Inaugural lecture Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp
During her studies, professor Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp developed a deep passion for spinal surgery. From exploring unknown fields and supervising PhD candidates to providing appropriate care for patients and making the most of data: her fascination remains strong to this day.
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Meet the Student workgroup D&I Student Wellbeing
On Monday 14 November 2022, our faculty student workgroup Diversity & Inclusion + Student Wellbeing will start working. The workgroup consists of seven motivated student assistants under supervision of the Faculty Coordinator Susanne Deen will get started on making the topics diversity & inclusion and…
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Pedagogische Wetenschappen en Jeugdrecht zetten succesvolle interdisciplinaire samenwerking voort
Onderzoekers van het Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen en de afdeling Jeugdrecht gaan samenwerken in 2 nieuwe onderzoeken: onderzoek naar het terugplaatsingen van kinderen na uithuisplaatsing en draagmoederschappen in Nederland.
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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Nasreen Javanjoo reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference
The "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference, organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, hosted many talented young researchers alongside established scholars of different fields. Our guests got a chance to listen to a great presentation titled “Women of Valor: Tradwives and the Sacralization…
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'On 1 January I’ll quit for good!': Can you visualise your way out of a smoking addiction?
A million people in the Netherlands attempt to quit smoking each year, often without lasting success. Health psychologist Kristell Penfornis carried out doctoral research into the role of self-image in smoking cessation. “If smoking is normal in your social circle, it more easily becomes part of your…
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The first few weeks of BAS InSite: ‘Together we’re gaining a clear picture of how this system works’
We’ve been using BAS InSite, the university’s new basic administration system, for a month now. The transition to a single integrated platform for all HR, financial and administrative tasks went smoothly, for the most part, but also created a few challenges. ‘It’s not just a technical change; it also…
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Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completion
It was more than twenty years ago that the plan for a Japanese-Dutch dictionary was born. Now it contains over 65,000 words, and completion is tentatively coming into view. Dictionary makers Oscar Veltink and Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren talk about their enthusiasm for this decades-long mammoth task.
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Executive Board Vice President Timo Kos ‘Now’s the time to step up’
Timo Kos has been Vice President of Leiden University’s Executive Board since 1 March. Who is he and how have his first weeks been? ‘Higher education is under threat; we’re under fire.’
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Academia in Motion: ‘Don’t be afraid to say what you can’t do’
Setting a good example by showing that it’s good to make choices. That it’s okay say ‘no’. And as a manager, using a range of tools for Recognition & Rewards. Bram Klievink, Scientific Director and Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, shares his ambitions for Academia in Motion.
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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‘It’s a great motivator if your research can be life-changing in the real world’
Our university labs are bursting with cutting-edge research, but how do you commercialise these inventions and discoveries or translate them into outcomes that benefit society? Professor of biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin started a spin-off company with his team. ‘When it comes to valorisation…
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Five years of Pre-University The Hague: alumni share their experiences
Pre-University College The Hague is celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2024-2025. Three alumni look back on their experience. PRE broadened their academic horizons and taught them a lot about themselves. ‘PRE made me feel more comfortable at university'.
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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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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the conservation biologist for her passion, engaging personality, and the way she motivates her students. On the Dutch Day of the Teacher, we get to know…
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘A lot is expected of students nowadays’
How can staff help create a healthy and inclusive learning environment? How do today’s students differ from previous generations? And what does this mean for how we guide and support them? These questions were the focus of the ‘Today’s Students’ symposium on 25 March.
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.