2,207 search results for “history of the united national” in the Staff website
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Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Membership of foreign academies is incredible recognition'
When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutch university. Two years later, she is also the only Dutch member of the Austrian Academy and officially joined the British Academy on 7 October.
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Spending cuts and ‘low-hanging fruit’: What does this mean for you?
Organisation
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Sofie Hajer wins prize for research on balancing wind energy and biodiversity
How do you combine the growth of wind energy with the protection of vulnerable seabirds? With her master’s thesis on this delicate balance, Sofie Hajer won the 2025 Unilever Research Prize. Her work provides new insights into how ecology and policy can strengthen each other.
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Erasmus+ grant for virtual exchanges: 'We want to deliver ecologically aware global citizens'
Professor Dario Fazzi has been organising virtual exchanges for students with various American universities for a number of years. Now he has been awarded 400.000 euros from the Erasmus+ programme Cooperation Partnerships to further develop the virtual component of his teaching.
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The Principles of Representative Government: Thirty Years Later
Lecture, Workshop
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Can the Qing subaltern speak? Exploring Tibetan and Mongol history through the use of sub-provincial Chinese language archival sources
Lecture, China Seminar
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained
In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections promise to be the most closely contested in years, with the opinion polls showing very small differences and everything at stake, including for Europe. Alp…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Laura PlezierFaculty of Humanities
l.m.plezier@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nora JulmiFaculty of Humanities
n.p.julmi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277160
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Cecilia-Louise von IlsemannFaculty of Humanities
c.l.von.ilsemann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
s.rademaker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
f.colla.de.amorim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Daniel SchadeFaculty of Humanities
d.d.schade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272796
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505
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Alexandra PrégentFaculty of Humanities
a.pregent@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
a.u.warnecke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272679
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Sarah NelsonFaculty of Humanities
s.a.nelson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271268
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
e.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
m.e.l.david@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274118
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Morena SkalameraFaculty of Humanities
m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
f.p.lens@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009927
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
k.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271737
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
n.asghari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.c.p.van.uden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274992
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272686
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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276275
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Scientific Integrity for PhD candidates in Archaeology and the Humanities
Research
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’
How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving from a have-to to a want-to’
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Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955)
Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Corinne HofmanFaculty of Archaeology
c.l.hofman@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272449
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Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman in Wijnhaven: 'American men have real problems'
In a packed lecture hall at Wijnhaven, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman succinctly summed up the essence of his argument on Wednesday 17 September: ‘Running a good society is hard’. His lecture held up a mirror to economists and policymakers.
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The danger of unregulated online communications
Social media gives people a voice but also fuels online hate, especially against marginalised groups. PhD candidate Eva Nave: ‘While end-to-end encryption protects activists, it also enables criminal activity, creating a more accessible version of the Darkweb.’
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Major research project GUTS kicks off: How can this generation of young people grow up successfully?
After a big two-day conference, the Growing Up Together in Society consortium has officially begun. Researchers from seven universities will spend the next decade looking at how young people grow up as engaged and resilient adults. Leiden psychologists explain how they will do so.
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The Vanuatu climate case goes far, but not far enough
In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice says that states are obliged to protect the climate. Jolein Holtz, a climate and human rights expert, believes the Court is too vague about the impact for future generations: ‘A missed opportunity’.
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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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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: 'Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’
It poured down when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, three months before 9/11. The now 46-year-old American fought in Iraq, did research in Afghanistan and stands in Leiden today, defending his dissertation on…
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Annemarie SamuelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.samuels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271724
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…