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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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From Leiden Pilgrim to American president
Before founding their American colony, the Pilgrim Fathers first lived in Leiden in the early 17th century. This group has no fewer than nine American presidents among its descendants. The University played an important role in the Pilgrims’ life in Leiden.
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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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Timo Kos on the cuts and elections: ‘We’re fighting for the future of our university’
The university may seem a bit subdued in the run-up to the Dutch elections on 29 October. The media has barely mentioned education as an election issue, but behind the scenes the university is lobbying hard, says acting President of the Executive Board, Timo Kos. ‘We’re fighting for the future of our…
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Beat the Professor PubQuiz
Festival, We are Science week
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Spionnen op de Noordzee
Debate
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
- Feestelijke opening Gorlaeus Gebouw
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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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E-Values for Anytime-Valid Inference with Exponential Families
PhD defence
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UMADA Project Launch
Conference
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Beat the Professor PubQuiz
Festival, We are Science week
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Genuine or fake? Authentication of Gandhara sculptures
VVIK Lecture
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Multiple Scales: theory and applications
Conference
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - December 2024
Lecture
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
- Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
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Roundtable 'The Dynamics of Contemporary Coercive Statecraft'
Debate
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Archived
PhD Research Projects:
- Volume 8 (2013)
- Volume 2 (2007)
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AFITE
The EU fundamental right to ‘freedom of the arts and sciences’: exploring the limits on the commercialisation of academia (AFITE) AFITE is an interdisciplinary five-year research project. It is funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), as part of its Vidi scheme. Its principal…
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
- Volume 5 (2010)
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The Visuals of Empire
Lecture, The Visuals of Empire
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Reconstructing non-standard varieties and their speakers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation of plant functional traits on global scales
PhD defence
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Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History
Lecture, Seminar
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AFITE/Una Europa conference ‘A Three-dimensional Initiative on Academic Freedom’
Conference
- Materialising Prehistoric Societies in Western Asia
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Workshop ‘Disinformation and Human Rights in Context’
Conference
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When Dionysus Lands on Erin: Greek Tragedy on Irish Grounds
PhD defence
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - January 2024
Lecture
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HiSoN Summer School 2025
Conference, Summer School
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European-wide ecosystem responses and their vulnerability to intensive drought
PhD defence
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- Introduction to Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Sustainability and energy: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
From energy transition to the nitrogen crisis: artificial intelligence can be of great help. Researchers from the three universities in Zuid-Holland are seizing the opportunity. Three of them talk about collaborative research in the AI for Energy and Sustainability focus group within the Zuid-Holland…
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Rethinking Publishing: Alternative Outputs and Platforms
In recent years, the term alternative publishing has gained momentum within open science communities - a response to the slow, paywalled, and sometimes opaque world of traditional academic publishing. But what exactly does alternative publishing entail, and why is it needed?
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.