724 search results for “museums collections and society” in the Staff website
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought?
Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…
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Asia-Europe Cooperation on Inclusive Digital Societies
Webinar
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A podium for science
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…
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Towards Healthy Societies
Conference, Network event
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Framing China: Performativity and Narrative in Museum Displays of Chinese Porcelain
PhD defence
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From storeroom to public display. 18th century interiors in the Museum Houses of the Hendrick de Keyser association.
Alumni event, Lecture
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Museum Talk with Gary Schwartz: Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century
Lecture
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Policy on Professorial Appointments
Our professors are the cornerstone of the University, and the bar is set high. They are recognised for their research, teaching and academic leadership skills. Our policy on professors explains how the University helps professors meet these high expectations.
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Obituary: Alumnus and cabaret artist Paul van Vliet (87)
Social
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AI: the judge of speech
AI can help in the online detection of hate speech, but whether the technology would always make the right choices is debatable. Students Tofigh Hasen Nezhad Nisi (Tax Law) and Terra Rolfe (Governance, Economics and Development, LUC) published an article on this topic in Leiden Science Magazine. In…
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Keynote Speech: "Citizen Diplomacy, New Diplomatic History, and Questions of Historical Agency"
Lecture, 7th ENIUGH congress
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Step-by-step plan towards more impact
An important question being asked, both in the academic world and in society, concerns the impact of our research and education. By providing a well-supported answer, we not only create a strong position for our research, we also increase our chances of success in applying for research grants and retaining…
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'Unions have less clout if a call to strike receives little support'
Recently more than five hundred workers at metal companies in Dutch cities Zwolle and Kampen went on strike. Their aim is better pay and the workers have now been on strike for twelve weeks. Just how effective is striking in collective bargaining?
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The American Indian Historical Society
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Events Office: our services
The Events Office can take the following off your hands:
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Museumnacht Boerhaave - Adventerous Microbiology
Festival
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Worlds to Discover: The Qayrawan Collection
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- News
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IBL Spotlight - Science Communication & Society
Lecture
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Symposium: Multi-Level Leadership for Collective Good
Conference
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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brussels’ as bureaucratic, even undemocratic, bypassing its citizens. And many of us buy into that image. Nikoleta Yordanova, Anastasia Ershova and Aleksandra…
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lecture: Challenges of Teaching Controversial Issues in a Post-Conflict Society
Lecture
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MyTimetable
MyTimetable is Leiden University’s timetabling publication tool.
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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Call for proposals: Leiden European City of Science 2022
Research
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Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March 2023
The Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March seeks to inspire conversations around new state-citizen relations in the social domain. At this conference, international researchers discuss core questions at the heart of the new NWA Crafting Resilience project.
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Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March 2023
The Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March seeks to inspire conversations around new state-citizen relations in the social domain. At this conference, international researchers discuss core questions at the heart of the new NWA Crafting Resilience project.
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Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 2-4, Leiden
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Graphic techniques: the linoleum cut
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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exhibition of European design drawings from the Rijksmuseum in the Design Museum in Den Bosch
Alumni event, Lezing
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Knowledge Extraction from Archives of Natural History Collections
PhD defence
- New application deadline (May 27) for Graduate Masterclass: The Classical Body Exposed by Byvanck professor Carrie Vout
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Last chance to join the Graduate Masterclass: The Classical Body
Education
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Mark Leiser appointed International Research Fellow
Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor in Law and Digital technologies at eLaw, has been appointed an International Research fellow at the Coordinated Research Center in Information Society and Law of the University of Milan in Italy. The aim of the Center is to conduct research on issues related to the…
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Strategic plan
In our new strategic plan (Innovating and Connecting – 2022-2027) we focus on stronger connections: between disciplines, with society and within our university community.
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Ghazwan Yaghi nominated for UAF-award
Human resources
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Leiden Classics: Humbert de Superville, founder of the Print Room
Dutch artist and visionary David Humbert de Superville (1770-1849) was the founder and first director of the Print Room at Leiden University. An exhibition and symposium are now being organised in his honour. What makes him so remarkable?
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2024 Congress of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores
Congress
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Meet the Societal Advisory Board
The Faculty of Humanities wants to take a stand in the middle of society with its research and education. That’s why last year, in the middle of a pandemic, the Societal Advisory Board was founded. What are the members’ plans?
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The Roman World Between Global Society and Local Cultures
Conference
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
Conference
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Unique collaboration between knowledge institutions and municipality of Leiden
The city of Leiden has a unique combination of knowledge institutions. To ensure this knowledge flourishes and the city gains the maximum benefit from it, the Leiden City of Knowledge partnership was launched five years ago. A new partnership agreement will be signed on 11 November.
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Liveable planet lunch meeting: Food Citizens? Collective Food procurement in European cities
Lecture
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Five activities to look forward to this semester
A fresh semester means a fresh faculty calendar. There is plenty to do at the faculty again in the coming months. Five interesting activities are listed below.
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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New front office of Leiden University in Jakarta opened
Last July, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University's Executive Board, opened the new front office of the Leiden University office in Jakarta. The office - located on the grounds of the Dutch embassy - has a dual role. Firstly, it…
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Advocates, Critics or Partners? The Shifting Relationships between Civil Society and International Criminal Mechanisms
Conference, Discussion
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PhD candidate Monitoring Open Science Policies and Practices
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Centre for Science and Technology Studies