827 search results for “modern” in the Student website
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From Microbes to the Cosmos: A Journey Through Science
Lecture, Pint of Science
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
Lecture
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Global Fishing in the North Atlantic: Archaeological research on Basque fisheries in Canada and Ireland
Conference
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Arthur Docters van Leeuwen Annual Lecture
Lecture
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What are We Remembering When Nothing Happened?
Lecture, Museum Talks
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Education Blog Archaeology: Alex Geurds on bildung in our bachelor
In this series the Vice-Dean and portfolio holder of education in the board of the Faculty of Archaeology will reflect on the state of education. Posts can range from shedding light on current national shifts in the university landscape to arguments as to why it’s important to be timely with designing…
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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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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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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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(CANCELLED) Incorporating Scientific Materialism in an Islamic Worldview: The Perspective of Abdullah Cevdet
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Histories Connected
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The Israel-Hamas War in Islamist Discourses
Discussion
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Night Talk Series: Digital Nationalism in China
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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India in the World: Interaction with Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda
Lecture, Event
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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The study of ancient cities provides us with new urban ideas
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
Lecture
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Lecture
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The Panama Canal: unveiling the transition to Panamanian Management
Lecture
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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Leiden Humanities Faculty Symposium
Symposium
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
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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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Master's students
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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War and Power by Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien
Guest lecture
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Measuring the edge of Infinity
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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PhD workshop: Epistemologies in PhD Research
Workshop
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Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955)
Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar