4,250 search results for “impact” in the Public website
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Working in intensive care: ‘You can make a real difference here’
Many alumni are frontline health workers and are working day and night to treat thousands of corona patients. Intensivist Michael Frank (53) is one of them. As head of intensive care at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht, he is steering his department through the corona crisis.
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Retirement is not an option for ‘an old warhorse’ like Osinga
He has had to accept early retirement due to his military profession, or ‘FLO’ (Functioneel Leeftijdsontslag) as it is more commonly referred to within the Dutch Ministry of Defence, but the words ‘retirement’ or ‘winding down’ do not appear to be part of Frans Osinga's vocabulary. His appointment at…
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No moderation in tone at Trump's inauguration
The brand-new American President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on 20 January. There was little sign of conciliation and he was liberal with the truth, in the opinion of a number of Leiden academics. One professor is more positive: 'He wants to take on radical Islam.'
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LUC Student Wins Nobel Peace Prize Essay Competition
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…
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Leiden Law Cast #6: Geerten Boogard on (local)elections & political upheaval
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?
Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed thousands of handwritten letters from the eighteenth century, mainly written in German and French. His personal mission is to visualize the daily lives…
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public in so many different ways. This is the first Public Prize awarded by the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hugo says with a smile:…
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First scientific images Euclid telescope exceed all expectations
Space telescope Euclid is capable of unravelling the secrets of the universe. That is what the images published by ESA today show, according to astronomers working with the telescope's data. The images exceed all expectations. Scientists within the Euclid consortium, including astronomers Henk Hoekstra…
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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Exploring Our Roots
Terra Symposium
- Public graduation presentation, Hussein Aldin
- Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Towards a functionalist theory of language contact. With special reference to Romani, and with implications for the architecture of the language
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
- More-than-Planet Symposium
- The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
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The Leiden-Birmingham lectures: Comparative Cross Modal Linguistics
Lecture, Workshop
- Conference: Law & AI
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Ozan Candogan
Lecture
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The EU’s Response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives
Conference
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Testing and Assessment (UTQ module)
Didactics
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Film Screening: Foragers
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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Your rights and freedoms on the World Wide Web
Debate
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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Roundtable: Is the Russia-Ukraine War a Global War? / Workshop: Archives and Methods
Conference, INVISIHIST Pre-Conference
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - April 2024
Lecture
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities
Debate, Symposium
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China Fashion Power - Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer
Lecture, China Seminar
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Ozan Candogan
Lecture
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Development matters - Longitudinal pathways in brain and behavior
Conference
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Leiden Translation Talk 5 April: Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran
Lecture
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Peel Slowly and See
Festival
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What a glow in the dark squid tells us about the human gut microbiome
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Student for a Day - MSc Crisis and Security Management, spec. Governance of Radicalism, Extremism, and Terrorism
Study information
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Experience Day International Bachelor in Psychology
Study information
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Student for a Day - MSc Crisis and Security Management, spec. Governance of Radicalism, Extremism, and Terrorism
Study information
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Metals, energy and geopolitics, a complex mix
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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PhD Workshop: Scholarship and Politics
Workshop
- Roundtable: The making of disability / the making of migration
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How to make green hydrogen
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.