329 search results for “global slavery” in the Staff website
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Together the universities from Leiden and Paramaribo tackle ecological and social challenges
Research on flora and fauna with attention for economic interests and partnership with the local population. This is all bundled in a cooperation programme of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Leiden University. Working together on the basis of equality is key. ‘A thorny challenge, but one…
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‘Look beyond your own discipline’
Good research means looking beyond disciplinary boundaries, said Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Remus Dame in his inaugural lecture on 10 May. Processes that take place on DNA shouldn’t only be researched in a test tube but also in living cells, for instance.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Facilitating Challenging Classroom Conversations
Course, Lunchbyte
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Inclusive Education: Facilitating Challenging Classroom Conversations
Lunchbyte XL
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History Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
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Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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Hybrid Experience Day Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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Michiel and Jort: best friends, political rivals
With the Dutch general elections just around the corner, it’s not always easy when political differences exist within your circle of friends. How do you not lose sight of each other in political discussions? We asked best friends Jort Schaafsma and Michiel van der Velde, both students at Leiden Law…
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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:…
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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EU Integration Strategy: The Way Forward in 2022
Debate
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Webinar: Is LUC for me?
Study information, Webinar
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Colonialism and the Age of Revolutions (1780-1830)
Conference
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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Finding Your Way (In and Out of the Art World): A Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Lecture
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Preventing Future Ukraines: Conflict Prevention in Europe
Debate
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Diversity symposium 2021: small steps can increase inclusion
‘Culture change takes time,’ said Vice-Rector Hester Bijl at the closing panel of the University’s Diversity Symposium on 26 January. She talked about the road to a diverse and inclusive university. The symposium provided plenty of concrete examples of small steps that can already be taken.
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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Interdisciplinary collaboration in Leiden: discover the interdisciplinary research programmes
Event for all Leiden researchers