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The Pursuit of Competence: Why our students need more meaningful challenges, not less.
The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) is closely connected to the education of our biopharmaceutical students, providing both courses and immersive internship projects. Among these is the Bachelor Research Project (BOO), which offers many students their first real scientific experience…
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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One in five prisoners overlooked by professionals
Prisoners deserve better professional support when preparing to return to society. PhD candidate Amanda Pasma: ‘You can’t imprison everyone for life. Society will have to give prisoners a second chance.’
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten.
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now?
Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the significance of the case, the specific details of the ruling and what we can expect to happen next.
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Japanese Literature Reading List
From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Leiden Research Support: ‘We aim to be the one stop where researchers get their questions answered’
From forwarding promising calls and arranging budgets to assisting in legal issues and keeping track of important deadlines: to associate professor Roxanne Kieltyka, the research support offered by project managers Inge Rietveld en Christina Schlüpen is fundamental. ‘The combination of our expertise…
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A vision for the future of human rights and multilateralism
Lecture
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Truces and Rumours of Truces: Hamas's Pragmatism as Expressed Through Its Ceasefires
Lecture
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Cheia de Axé (Full of Axé): Spirituality, Resistance, and Repair in Pernambuco’s Afro-Brazilian Traditional Communities
CADS Research Seminar
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Film screening: The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace in Aceh
Film screening
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Modelling Social Dynamics on Social Media: Networks and NLP
LUCDH Lunch Lecture
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Democracy beyond elections: Workshop with Cleveringa Professor Landemore
Lecture, Workshop
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Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia
Conference
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
Lecture
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Lunch Talk Asia Research Cluster and Futuring Heritage Project
Lecture, Lunch Talk
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
m.e.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278546
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The Strategic Logic of Proxy Warfare: Addressing Policy for Competition
Book presentation
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A university conversation on Israel/Palestine
Debate
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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Countering online hate speech: How to adequately protect fundamental rights?
PhD defence
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Introducing the Multistakeholder Global Governance Project
Lunch Seminar
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Book presentation: 'Radicalized Conservatism in Israel' by Mateo Cohen
Book presentation
- Doing Fieldwork with the Police: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
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Shadowboxing: Legal Mobilization and the Marginalization of Race in the Dutch Metropole, 1979-1999
PhD defence
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Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars
Lecture
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Why is the museum a topic in the current context?
Lecture
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Iran Between War and Tyranny: What Comes Next?
Debate
- Effective Public Risk Communication: Raising Awareness without Causing undue Fear
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The Telescopes and Instruments of Tomorrow
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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New dimensions of the cellular response to DNA damage
PhD defence
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Trees and Securitization: The Politics of Afforestation in Israel's Negev/Al Naqab | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Transformation and sublimation of interstellar ices: insights from laboratory experiments and astronomical observations
PhD defence
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The interaction between Arousal and Cognitive Control
PhD defence
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Open Science Week at Archaeology: Let's talk about publishing
Festival
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Optimizing Solvers for Real-World Expensive Black-Box Optimization with Applications in Vehicle Design
PhD defence
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Solving the Gravitational N-body Problem with Machine Learning
PhD defence
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Getting personal: Advancing personalized oncology through computational analysis of membrane proteins
PhD defence
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The Monroe Doctrine Refurbished? The US-Latin American relations under Trump 2: Exploring possible scenarios
Lecture
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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The opportunities for urban food self-sufficiency through green roofs: Modeling, Optimization, and Policy Scenario Analysis
PhD defence
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Sarah de Lange, new professor of Dutch Politics: ‘We should not take our democratic constitutional state for granted’
‘Dutch politics are changing, but they also are characterised by stability; that tension fascinates me.’ Sarah de Lange studies, among other things, the Dutch party system, and specifically how the rise of extremist parties influences democracy. She will start as a professor in Leiden in mid-October…
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Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you'
The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge their own paths and grow by trial and error.