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Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

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Course, Summer School

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

Lecture, China Seminar

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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…

Webinar, Q&A, discussion

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,…

Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT translate words and expressions used metaphorically. This still regularly goes wrong, resulting in far too literal, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible…

Generative AI presents journalists with new options for image use but also raises ethical questions.

Technology and privacy, trust and mistrust. A discussion about this broke out when the University installed scanners and students protested. On Wednesday 2 February experts from Leiden University will explore this topic at the eponymous symposium. We called Roy de Kleijn, as a computer scientist and…

An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this manually. And that is a real chore. Archaeologist Alex Brandsen has now used deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to develop a search engine…

Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier than previously assumed.

Júlia is a PhD Fellow in Digitalisation and Public Policy at The Hague Centre for Digital Governance.

Hanum Atikasari is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Emma Everaert works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Education & Child Studies of Leiden UniversityShe works on the NRO project ‘How effective is training executive functions as an impulse for academic skills?’.

Daphne is a PhD candidate within the project One Among Zeroes |0100|: Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam. Currently.

Miguel Mira is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research investigates the intersection of cinema and virtual reality with a focus on narratology.

Clodagh Murphy is a PhD candidate on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, exploring the collaborative production of Queen Elizabeth I's English scribal letters.

Marcel Keurentjes is a historian who is specialized in Non-Western History, Cold War history and in Game studies. Currently he is working on his PhD about Cold War themed video games.

Öykü Kurtpınar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University. Research Title: Innovative Air Mobility.

Holly Riach is a PhD candidate working on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Mustafa Colak is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Francianne Dos Santos Velho is a lecturer and external Ph.D. candidate at the Academic Language Center and Centre for the Arts in Society, respectively.

Andrei Poama’s interdisciplinary research covers ethics in public policy, democratic theory, criminal justice, AI technologies in governance, and experimental legal philosophy, focusing on public value, punishment, and electoral ethics.

Helen Westgeest is a Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Marcel IJsselstijn is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Sarah Giest is a Professor of Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability at the Public Administration Institute of Leiden University. She has been developing an interdisciplinary research agenda and teaching on using a policy lens to look at technical, environmental and social solutions…

In March 2020, Kimia Heidary joined Leiden Law School's Department of Business Studies to begin her PhD research on online price discrimination. Before coming to Leiden University, Kimia obtained her bachelor's degree in Law at Utrecht University (2016), a master's degree in Persuasive Communication…

Jonathan Silk is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He specializes in Buddhism in its Asian contexts, primarily from a historical point of view. He has a special interest in Buddhist scriptures.

Gert Oostindie is Professor Emeritus of Colonial and Postcolonial History at Leiden University and former Director of the KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

The central question of my research is: Which syntactic properties do all languages have in common, which properties are variable and which associations are there between these syntactic variables? The goal of this research is to contribute to a theory of natural language that explains the range and…

Lecture, COGLOSS x GLOBALISE Webinar

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…

PhD defence

From 13 to 16 July, Leiden will host the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), the largest multidisciplinary scientific conference in Europe. Lars van Doorn from Leiden Law School will give a presentation.

Professor of Modern China Florian Schneider researches what people do with technology and what technology does with people. Social media, for example. And then mainly in China.