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Trends in social assistance, minimum income benefits and income polarization in an international perspective
Social assistance and minimum income benefits are important instruments as a safeguard against low income and poverty. There have been major developments in minimum income benefits both in developed and developing countries over the last decades. Our study collects several empirical studies regarding…
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About
The World Cultural Council (WCC) is an international organisation based in Mexico. Since 1984 the WCC has held an annual Award Ceremony granting prizes to outstanding scientists, educators and artists whose breakthroughs in the fields of knowledge, learning and research have contributed positively to…
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Programme standards
The Programme Standards project sets out guidelines on how to structure the education offered at the Faculty of Humanities. The project aims to distribute the teaching effort in a transparent way and to organise the programmes so that the best possible teaching can be provided in an efficient manner,…
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Leiden University hosts Young FIDE Seminar for junior EU lawyers
Last Wednesday, on 12 May 2021, Leiden University hosted the virtual Young FIDE Seminar. This online event brought together junior EU law scholars and practitioners to discuss the three topics of the main XXIX FIDE Congress, which will take place from 3 to 6 November 2021 in The Hague and of which Leiden…
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NWO Open Competition funding for research into distracted consumption
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 400.000 euros in funding to Lotte van Dillen, associate professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Organizational Psychology. With this grant, Lotte van Dillen will investigate how daily distractions influence our dietary consumption habits and glucose…
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Armin Cuvyers Visiting Fellow in think-tank of Commission President Juncker
Between January and April 2017 Armin Cuyvers (Assistant Professor of European Law) will be a Visiting Fellow at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the in-house think-tank of European Commission President Juncker.
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Successful authors’ workshop on the EU fundamental right to academic freedom
On 9 June 2023, the workshop on ‘Academic Freedom and its Philosophical Underpinnings in EU law’ took place at the Academy Building, Leiden. It was organized in the framework of the Vidi research project The EU fundamental right to ‘freedom of the art and sciences': exploring the limits on the commercialisation…
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Pieter van Cleynenbreugel and Maarten Aalbers attended EU law conference at Católica Porto University
On March 18 2016 Pieter van Cleynenbreugel and Maarten Aalbers discussed recent developments in EU internal market law and EU state aid law at the International Colloquium on EU Law.
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The development of the Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Greek
Ancient Greek was spoken in a large number of different dialects. Although we do not find direct evidence for syllabic liquids in any of our sources, comparative evidence shows that these sounds must have been present in Proto-Greek, and that they were retained until comparatively recently in the prehistory…
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Italy’s green light to ship boat migrants to Albania
Italian PM Meloni’s election promise to limit the number of boat migrants entering the country looks like being fulfilled with help from Albania. A deal was recently approved that provides for two reception centres for asylum seekers in Albania. Dr Mark Klaassen, an expert in immigration law, questioned…
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Digging Holes Abroad. An Ethnography of Dutch Archaeological Research Projects Abroad
ASLU 27 Sjoerd van der Linde (2012)
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Explosive Violence: Research into the Nature and Extent of Incidents with Hand Grenades in The Netherlands
The illegal use of hand grenades has generated a lot of public interest over the last few years but very little is known about the nature and extent of these incidents. This research project is trying to fill that gap.
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Melanie Fink speaks at TARN Conference in Maastricht
On 5 December 2019 Melanie Fink, researcher at the Europa Institute, spoke at the Conference organised by The Academic Network on EU Agencies & Institutional Innovation.
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The Europa Institute organizes online case law dinner on the German PSPP-judgment
Earlier this month, the Europa Institute organized an internal discussion on the German PSPP-judgment. For the first time, the German Constitutional Court declared acts of EU institutions as manifestly excessive and thus as ultra vires acts under German constitutional law. During an online debate, various…
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Vasiliki Kosta appointed Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center of New York University (NYU) School of Law
Vasiliki Kosta has been appointed Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center of New York University (NYU) School of Law after a competitive selection process.
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Vasiliki Kosta speaks ‘on the principle of proportionality in EU law’ at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid (Centro
Vasiliki Kosta participated in the García Pelayo Seminar of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid entitled: ‘Discretionary Powers and Judicial Review: What Destiny for the Principle of Proportionality?’
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The Europa Institute organises its first ‘Meet the Author’ event
On Wednesday 2 November, the Europa Institute held its first ‘Meet the Author’ event. In the context of this new event series external academics come to Leiden to discuss a recent publication by their hand. The event typically starts with a conversation between a member of the Europa Institute and the…
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Political Factors Affecting European Union Legislative Decision- Making Speed
PhD defence
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Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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NO-ESKAPE New Strategies for Overcoming the ESKAPE Pathogens
Natural product inspired antibiotics to address resistance
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IBL PhD and PostDoc Association (IPPA)
The IBL PhD and Postdoc Association, also known as IPPA, seeks to create a platform for PhDs and Postdocs at the Institute of Biology Leiden to interact with one another. IPPA arranges social gatherings approximately four times each year, which include food and drinks, with the goal of integrating PhDs…
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Microfoundations of Debt Crises (MIDEBT)
How do citizens think about government debt? This project investigates the political roots of government debt crises by exploring the drivers of citizens’ preferences towards fiscal policies.
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Student engagement in blended learning in higher education
In what way can teachers support and enlarge student engagement in a blended learning context?
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Organisation
The staff members of the Methodology & Statistics unit are members of various boards and committees.
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Rudolph Cleveringa
On 26 November 1940 Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa (1894-1980) gave his now famous protest speech.
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Political Science
The Institute of Political Science is a vibrant department with nearly 70 academic staff in Leiden and nearby The Hague.
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Imagining Justice for Syria: Water Always Finds Its Way
On 29 april 2020, Beth Van Schaack defended her thesis 'Imagining Justice for Syria: Water Always Finds Its Way'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. C. Stahn.
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The African Union in the United Nations
Madeleine Hosli, Professor of International Relations at Leiden University, together with two other authors, wrote a chapter in Group Politics in UN Multilateralism. This chapter assesses the composition and functioning of the African Union (AU) within the United Nations.
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Programme
Programme
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The mechanism of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of eukaryotic cells
We aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms involved in the transformation of eukaryotic cells by Agrobacterium.
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Organisation
The Cognitive Psychology Unit is organized as follows:
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White Skin, Savage Masks: Specters of Native Americans and the Revisiting of History
How to related figures of savages to conceptions of history?
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Policy Note Insecurity in Burkina Faso – beyond conflict minerals: The complex links between artisanal gold mining and violence
Policy Note Insecurity in Burkina Faso – beyond conflict minerals: The complex links between artisanal gold mining and violence
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Eye gaze behavior in socially anxious individuals
Are there any differences in gaze behavior between high and low socially anxious individuals? What factors influence the relation between social anxiety and gaze behavior?
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FragmEndoscopy: Medieval fragments in early modern book spines
During the early modern period, many medieval manuscripts were cut up into strips of parchment which were reused to reinforce the bindings of newly printed books. Until recently, these reused pieces of medieval manuscripts only came to light when the early modern book binding was damaged and/or subjected…
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The reintegration of high profile ex-offenders
The reintegration of high profile ex-offenders frequently receives great political and public attention. While this attention, more often than not in the form of negative sentiments, may be understandable from a moral perspective, it raises several important questions: how do such offenders reintegrate…
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Why are some civil servants more committed to professional norms than others?
This project aims to explore, in general, what explains civil servants’ attitudes and behavior, and, in particular, why some civil servants are more committed to professional norms and public service values – such as impartiality, equity, efficiency, and innovation – than others.
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Cosmos Malabaricus
This programme aims to make the digitized archival sources of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Archives more accessible to Indian and international scholars and to the widest possible audience, in particular to the people of Kerala.
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The (pre)historic distribution and habitat of the elk in the Netherlands
The project aims to explore Eurasian elk's role in the ecosystems of the past and its relationship with humans through analysis of its distribution and habitat in the Netherlands.
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Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions.
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Meijers Lecture and New Year’s Reception 2022
On Tuesday 11 January 2022, the Meijers Lecture and the New Year's reception took place at 16.00 hrs.
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A bibliometric review of COVID-19 research in the crisis and disaster literature
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressing question is how this global health emergency impacted the research agendas of the field of crisis and disaster science. This article reviewed contributions in ten important crisis and disaster journals in the two and a half years following the COVID-19…
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Digital tools for sign language research: towards recognition and comparison of lexical signs
On the 9th of April, Manolis Fragkiadakis successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Manolis on this achievement!
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LLX round table on recent preliminary reference by German Federal Constitutional Court
Recently, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) issued its second preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Following its earlier reference on the European Central Bank’s bond buying programme Outright Monetary Transactions, the German court now…
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Performing the Sublime. Theatre & Politics in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
The project will clarify that in the search for these new means the treatise On the sublime of ps.-Longinus played a crucial role. However, the project will also place the theatre performances in a broader social and political perspective. These public events and the theatre performances suggest that…
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A new window on the Universe
Rottgering
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network…
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An empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman Empire
The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in the provinces of the Roman Empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration.