On 24 November 2022, Simone van der Hof delivered the annual Mulock Houwer Lecture. The title of the lecture was ‘Niet om de knikkers maar om het spel – Over de digitale versie van een vergeten kinderrecht’.

Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, and Mohammed Raiz Shaffique, researcher and PhD candidate at eLaw, have published a self-assessment tool on age assurance for the European Commission.

Prof.dr. A. Briegel Prof.dr. D. Claessen Summary Bacteriophages are the most prevalent biological entities, influencing bacterial evolution and communities. Their omnipresence and potential applications in medicine and industry make them vital for scientific exploration. This research delves into the…

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Prof.dr. J.P. van der Leun Prof.dr. M.J. van Meeteren (Radboud) dr. J.A. van Wilsem (Algemene Rekenkamer)

Please join us for our next LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Dr. Rogier Creemers and Vincent Brussee (PhD) on Tuesday, 5 March 2024 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CET). Research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years, with increased political pressure on researchers and restrictions…

Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by special appointment. How has his approach to AI changed in that time?

The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…

Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fifty years or so, this poetry is hugely influential yet hard to find beyond the informal networks through which it travels. To address this paradox, the…

Dr. Qian Huang is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at University of Groningen. She obtained her PhD in October 2022 from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research expertise includes digital vigilantism, creative labour, and youth digital culture. She is currently…

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Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous dr. V.A.S. Nyst dr. P.W.H. van der Putten Summary See Dutch site.

As part of the euCONSENT consortium, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) has been awarded European Commission funding to create a child rights’ centred cross-border system for online age verification and parental consent.

‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’

Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, and Mohammed Raiz Shaffique, Researcher and PhD candidate at eLaw, have published a report on age assurance for the European Commission.

In a podcast of the Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NL GF) and the Safer Internet Centre Nederland, Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University and Thijs Hannema, a lawyer at Kennedy van der Laan, discuss online privacy of children.

Lecture, China Seminar

Do you have piles of linguistic data collecting dust? Or are you struggling to find the right linguistic data? Or are you wondering how to make your linguistic data accessible to others? Are you making the most of the available linguistic research resources? Then this colloquium is for you! This one-day…

The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.

Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues want to investigate how grassroots art projects manage to keep democracy alive.

Goldband, Skrillex, Róisín Murphy and... quantum: the latter may not be a band but is part of the Lowlands line-up nonetheless. Scientists from Leiden University are using the festival for research on the very smallest particles.

Kel O'Neill (Director and Producer Jongsma + O'Neill) With an introduction by Liselore Tissen How can European museums reckon with the crimes and misuses of power that built their collections? And what will those museums look like once the scales have been balanced and restitution claims have been honored?…

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Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecution. In practice, however, this has little effect. A tougher stance is needed, argues Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science at eLaw – Center…

The EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative – EU Cyber Direct – is partnering with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and joining forces with research institutions and civil society organisations around the world to organize the third edition of the Closing the Gap Conference. This two-day, in person, conference…

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Please join us for our next LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Corine Gerritsen (PhD candidate LUCDH & LUCAS) on Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CET). Compared to video games of today, early digital games are technologically and visually constrained. However, that does not hamper their…

He announced this news in a tweet earlier this month: 'Delighted to announce that I've been appointed Full Professor of Global Security and Technology'. So let's get more closely acquainted with Dennis Broeders (46), who explains why the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) is ideal for him,…