1,147 search results for “independence movement and decolonization” in the Staff website
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Defending Nature’s Rights: Paradoxes and Challenges
Masterclass
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Israeli Right One State Reality
Discussion
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Open Science Coffee: Direct publishing as an answer to problems in scholarly publishing
Lecture
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YAL Outreach Training
Course
- Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Webinar: A pleasant work environment: tips for connecting communication
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Webinar: what keeps you from giving feedback?
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Research Night: Re-wriggling the Museum
Arts and culture
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Chinese Labor Migration to the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, China Seminar
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Environmental Humanities LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants
Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery)
Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, scientists, civil servants and other professionals discussed how South Holland can become healthier. The Healthy Society Map makes it clear where there are…
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar
Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations (LUCIR) is widely regarded as an expert on civil wars and conflicts. Her new book, Rebels and Conflict Escalation,…
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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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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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’
Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by no means the case for everyone with chronic pain, as PhD candidate Gita Nadinda discovered. What does this mean for healthcare?
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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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FGGA experts on freedom: 'We are only truly free when everyone feels free'
On 5 May, we celebrate the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and the fact that we have been able to live in freedom ever since. But what does freedom mean, and how does it relate to our safety? Various FGGA experts draw connections with their own fields of expertise.
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ISGA received highly positive external research evaluation
In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…
- Healthy University Week 2023
- Media Outreach Training for Young Researchers in the field of Climate and Energy
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Exploring Challenges to U.S. Constitutional Norms
Lecture
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Birth of beautiful brides: Rise and transformation of the female gender roles and responsibilities among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya
Lecture
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Racial Capitalism, Sexuality and Labour: Experience of Young Northeast Women in the Spa Industry in Hyderabad, India
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Introducing the Leiden Academia in Motion programme
Lecture
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VVIK Lecture | Uncovering the Manuscript History of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita: Tracing and Reconstruction
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Narratives of Vulnerability
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Guest lecture by 113 on suicide prevention
Lecture
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Loyalty Trap: Federal Civil Servants Under Trump
Lecture, Event
- LACG Meetings
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OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
Lecture
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Book Launch Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Participatory Action Research: possibilities and challenges in the humanities
Course, Terra Incognita Masterclass
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Seminar and book discussion Frank Gerits
Lecture, Seminar / book discussion
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LACDR Spring symposium 2023
Symposium
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LCN2 seminar September 2024
Lecture