252 search results for “smit diaspora” in the Staff website
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Wives of professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement
PhD candidate Agnes van Steen researched the history of the Leiden women’s rights movement (1860-1990) and found that the university produced many feminists.
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Powerful new Leiden 'super antibiotic' may overcome resistance
The prestigious journal Science Translational Medicine has published a study by researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) on a potent new antibiotic that can overcome resistance. ‘The idea was to tweak the original antibiotic and create a next-generation drug’, says Nathaniel Martin, professor…
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How a game can show that working together is essential in the nitrogen crisis
The Netherlands is embroiled in a complex nitrogen crisis. Berent Baris wants to use his NitroGenius game to demonstrate the complexity of this crisis.
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Protest against higher education cuts: ‘This government is turning its back on the world’
Over 20,000 students, lecturers, administrators, support staff and many others protested on 25 November against the plans to make billions of cuts to higher education. Students and staff from Leiden University also travelled to The Hague to voice their objections to the disastrous plans.
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past
Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.
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European support for Dutch-Flemish project in the fight against disinformation
Dutch and Flemish partners, including Leiden University, are joining forces as the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) in the fight against the spread of fake news, and have received the support of the European Commission.
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Celebrating 20 years of Sino-Dutch environmental research
This week we welcomed a high-level delegation from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) to Leiden’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML).
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Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people'
Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do you get there as a scientist? And, more importantly, what was his message? In eight questions, Rutger explains what he does and why.
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Put your idea about education innovation into practice with a Comenius grant
Research
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Eight professors receive double appointment simultaneously
Delft, Nov. 15th, 2022 – Today, eight professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta professors’ at Leiden University, LUMC, TU Delft, Erasmus University and/or Erasmus MC. With an appointment of two or more of these five academic institutions, they combine technology and healthcare in…
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Tracing Shumi: Politics and Aesthetics in Modern Japanese Literary Discourse and Fiction
PhD defence
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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Minderheidskabinetten in Nederland en Denemarken
PhD defence
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Dimensions of student participation: Participatory action research in a teacher education context
PhD defence
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Characterization of age-associated immunity in atherosclerosis
PhD defence
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Low-temperature spectroscopic studies of single molecules in 3-D and on 2-D hosts
PhD defence
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Educated Muslim Women in a Non-Muslim World: Navigating Identities in Sendai, Japan
PhD defence
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Asia Academy #05: Sanctioning North-Korea
Lecture
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Liveblog: Leiden University strikes against government cuts
Staff from Leiden University are starting the Dutch universities’ staggered strike against the government cuts on 10 March. Follow the strike in this liveblog.
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Movie Screening: Gail and Bharat (2025), directed by Somnath Waghamare
Movie Screening | SSEALS
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Leiden Science rings in 2025 with inspiring speeches and happy winners
An impressive speech by Dean Jasper Knoester, a lecture by top researcher Mario van der Stelt about brain messengers, and the presentation of the faculty awards. 2025 begins on a hopeful and festive note, with a toast to a year of fruitful collaboration within and beyond the faculty.
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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The Comenius Education Scholarship. What is it and how do I get one?
Lecture, Training afternoon
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
PhD defence
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Information session Comenius grants
Informatiemiddag
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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Peace, Democracy, and Media Conference 2025
Conference, Just Peace Festival
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Fireside Peace Chat with Arnold Stepanyan
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
- Fireside Peace Chats: The Zainichi Korean community, the division, and peace movement
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Queer migration: lessons from the past and present, thoughts for the future. A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
Conference, A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists
Seminar
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On the Abuse of Photographs by Kevin Lewis O’Neill
Lecture
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Just Peace Dialogue: Imagining Peace
Just Peace Festival
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Opening of faculty year & Leiden Revisited
Alumni event
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Comenius Scholarship: What is it and how do I get one?
Lunchbyte XL
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Jade from the Other Mountain: Chinese Fan Fiction Based on English Source Texts
PhD defence
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The Intertopian Mode in the Depiction of Turkey-originated Migrants in European Cinema
PhD defence
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Exile and a digital elsewhere
Film screening + Q&A
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
Workshop
- LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Psychology End of Year Celebration
Festival, Viering
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Just Peace Dialogue: Climate and Peace
Just Peace Festival
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000
Conference
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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LUC Major Choice Declaration Deadline
Study information, Major Choice Event