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Blog Post | An asset or a hassle? The public as a problem for public diplomats
It is undeniable that the public is central to the practice and study of public diplomacy. Indeed, this field is known as *public* diplomacy.
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How can we banish racism from education?
A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrators, diversity officers, students and staff discussed urgently needed measures.
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Inspirational start to faculty year
On Friday 5 September, to mark our 450th anniversary we celebrated the opening of the faculty year together with the Leiden Revisited alumni event. Combining both annual events was a huge success, especially as staff brought along their family, partner or friends.
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’
Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossils encountered in many faculty as well as external projects. ‘Flexibility, spontaneity, creativity, these are all parts of being an academic.’
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Call for Papers Conference: The "Others" amongst "Us"
The conference 'The
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Becoming and belonging? ‘Immigration procedures are less about identity and more about transaction’
What does it feel like to become a citizen in a new country? For her PhD research, Hannah Bliersbach immersed herself in the world of immigration. She interviewed dozens of new citizens in Germany and Canada and found that citizenship is, above all, a transactional process.
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De schaduwzijde van erfgoedbescherming
World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.
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Giant Robots, Big Ideas - Exploring the World of Mecha in Japanese Animation
From towering mechanical heroes to city-destroying battles, giant robots have become one of the most iconic images in Japanese animation. On 28 April 2026, Leiden University will host
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LCHP workshop Iamblichus on the Cosmos, the Human Soul and Theurgy
Debate
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Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art
Conference
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From War on Drugs to Criminal Governance: Mexico’s Security Dilemmas
Lecture
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference
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A Pursuit of Ontological Truth in Aristotle's Philosophy
PhD defence
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Preprint Culture. A Case in the Mediatization of Scientific Communication
Seminar
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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Student for a day International Studies
Study information
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Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World
Conference, workshop
- Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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How the Veto Powers of the Permanent UNSC Members are Destabilising Global Security
Lecture, LUCIR lecture + Q&A
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Kick-off meeting Health Humanities
Lecture
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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Codecheck
Workshop
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
- Summer School - Schools in Transition: Situated learning, Discipline and Monasticism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (5 ECTS)
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Use of natural resources for indigenous ceramic production in the Lesser Antilles during the Ceramic Age and Early Colonial Period
PhD defence
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Speculative Sounds, Speculative Fictions Reading Group: Inaugural Meeting
Course
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Genuine or fake? Authentication of Gandhara sculptures
VVIK Lecture
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
- International seminar: “Indonesian Heritage and Library Collections”
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From Cremation Ground to Temple Niche: The Evolution of the Fierce Goddess in Medieval India
VVIK Lecture
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Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan
Lecture
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Codecheck
Workshop
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Shipwrecks and Cultural Diplomacy
Lecture
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
- OSCoffee: A bird's eye view of Open Science Developments, Challenges and Future Directions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Masterclass: Why did Pope Gregory the Great make churches give up property? (Roy Flechner, University College Dublin)
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
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Student for a day South and Southeast Asian Studies
Study information
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Student for a day South and Southeast Asian Studies
Study information
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Student for a day South and Southeast Asian Studies
Study information
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Student for a day South and Southeast Asian Studies
Study information
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Contested Mobility: Free African Americans and the Law in the U.S. South, 1790-1830s
PhD defence
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Student for a day International Studies
Study information
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Student for a day International Studies
Study information
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Student for a day African Studies
Study information
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Geopolitical Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology Regulation
Book talk