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Food for Thought lunch meeting: Politics and society in the aftermath of the 2025 elections
Lecture, Food for Thought
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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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Chinese nationalism in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
PhD defence
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Geef ouders en kinderen een stem en vergroot de kans dat kinderen weer thuis worden geplaatst
Het Leids onderzoek naar gedwongen uithuisplaatsingen van kinderen heeft veel stof doen opwaaien. Op een congres bespraken meer dan 250 mensen het onderzoek verder om zo de situatie voor ouders en kinderen in de toekomst te verbeteren.
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Shii Law of War Booty: What Imamis and Zaydis Say about the Division of the Khums
Middle East Studies Lecture
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‘Migration’, ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Social Mobility and Integration of Amsterdam Jews: The Ethnic Niche of the Diamond Industry, 1850-1940
PhD defence
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Foreign Yet Domestic Liberties: The Imperial Imaginary of the ACLU and the U.S. Colonial Empire, 1920-1941
PhD defence
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Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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The European Union’s Role in Security and Global Affairs: A review of the Danish EU Council Presidency and ways ahead
Lecture
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Causation in Aristotle’s Philosophy: Ensuring the Continuity and Coherence of the Cosmos within a Teleological Framework
PhD defence
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’
In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a large part unnoticed. In a series of interviews we are catching up, giving the floor to our new colleagues. We kick off with Dr Tuna Kalayci, who joined…
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clustering algorithms and performance evaluation metrics applied to samples of the Tell El-Yahudiya ware typology
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
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Connect & step up: Overview of the concrete actions to improve our local data repository service, DataverseNL, as a FAIR-enabling service
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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Strengthening Resilience in Youth: What We Learned from the Food for Thought Lunch Meeting
During the Food for Thought lunch meeting on 2 December, colleagues from across the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs gathered for the SSH Sectorplan theme Resilience in Youth to exchange insights and strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration.
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’
Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control?
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Talk: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politics of Emotion in the Pamphlets of the De Hondt Affair During the Small Brabant Revolution (1787)
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
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Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk: “The Early Modern Discovery of the Roman limes along the Danube and its impact on 16th-Cen. Austrian Architecture”
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
PhD defence
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Debtors in Possession: A Legal Comparative Study of the Role of Debtors in US, EU and Dutch Restructuring and Insolvency Law
PhD defence
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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Far- Right Alt-Tech Social Media Movement
PhD defence
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Show me the money: the magic of the marketing and finance interface to drive financial performance in hospitality operations
PhD defence
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Following Fate or Falling in Love: The second marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and
Lecture, China Seminar
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
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A Special Territory: Visions of Hong Kong and its People
PhD defence
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Setting the Standard
PhD defence
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The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World
Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
PhD defence
- Herta Mohr lecture
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information