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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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‘Nice tool but what are we supposed to do with it?’
Public agencies are keen to use new technology such as AI to speed up their primary processes. But the internal organisation is often a major stumbling block. SAILS researcher Friso Selten conducts research at the interface between data science and public administration.
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Let’s talk more about adversity’
How can we help our students build resilience and prevent unnecessary stress? And how do we break the taboo on failure? These and other questions are what study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff discussed at the staff symposium on student well-being at PLNT.
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Executive Board column: Let’s be alert to unacceptable behaviour
This is a difficult time. Above all, for all those directly involved in this horrible case – unacceptable behaviour by a professor and his removal from the University – the case we went public about on 18 October and that has been reported in the media. This is painful and tough for the complainants…
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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A call about: foreign business travel
As of 1 June, foreign travel is again permitted, albeit with certain restrictions. If you want to travel to a red or orange list area, the University’s International Incident Team (IIT) plays an important role. What do they take into account in your application? We asked Leo Harskamp, Head of Security…
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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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Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities
Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…
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Programme directors meet again: ‘We are all working towards the same goal: good teaching’
They are responsible for a wide range of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes but have more than enough in common to discuss: the programme directors and chairs. They met for the second time on 25 April to share knowledge and experiences and receive an update from Hester Bijl on strategic developments…
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PhD and Post Doc’s Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside of academia
Festival, Career Event
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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Gig economy and digital labour in Iran: what space for workers’ rights between public discourses and legal practices?
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Eliciting preferences for EU-level social protection in the context of global challenges
Seminar
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BOOK TALK: Offshore Attachments Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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Does the welfare entitlement of immigrants change the admission preferences of natives?
Lecture
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Lecture
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
- LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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From Colonial Morocco to the Promised Land: The Jewish Exodus and Its Complex Realities
Lecture
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Panel discussion Bias in AI, algorithms, and the tech sector - Young Alumni Network
Alumni event
- Student Well-being Staff Symposium - Translating student well-being from vision into practice
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Lecture
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Una Europa workshop: help shape the future of doctoral training programmes
Workshop
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Online webinar cyber security
Study information
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Legal Methodology
Research
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Getting Done With Snouck
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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John Rhoden and African-American Writers and Artists as Cold War Diplomats
Lecture
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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New SSH Sylvius labs: ‘The basis should be good’
Before the SSH labs in the Sylvius building will open their doors in the new academic year, there are still some obstacles to overcome. But when everything has been taken care of, the laboratories will be a place ‘where you can do almost everything you would ever want to do in your lab research.’
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Dialogue and experimentation to embed Recognition and Rewards within the whole University
A culture change is needed within the University in the area of Recognition and Rewards, and a start can now be made on bringing about that change. The Recognition and Rewards steering group has published a change vision and recommendations people can start to work with. Their advice has been welcomed…
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
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. In this edition…
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Interdisciplinary research: labour market on the move
Migration, globalisation, technological developments, climate change: the greatest challenges of our time all affect our labour market. But how exactly? And can we influence this? Professor of Economics Olaf van Vliet regards it as his job to reveal how things really are. ‘That way, we can work on solutions…