490 search results for “north america” in the Staff website
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Travelers defense course for female staff members
Personal development
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Opening Exhibition Presenting with the City at Archaeology
Arts and culture
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Exhibition Presenting with the City at Humanities
Exhibition
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher
For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee Turkey and start again from scratch in the Netherlands. Re-entering the academic world was a challenge, but he rediscovered his love for the field in…
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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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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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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Two-day workshop Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)™
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Jean Monnet Seminar: CompaRe meets EUTAXGOV
Seminar
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Scientometrics Using Open Data
Research
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Healing the People: Popularizing and Printing Medicine in Edo Japan
Conference
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture
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Russia correspondent Eva Hartog: ‘Return to the Netherlands? No way!’
Russia correspondent Eva Hartog took a Master’s in Political Philosophy in Leiden in 2011. This former editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times sees this short period as a new chapter in her life. And she is once again contemplating her future now she can no longer ask the big questions in Russia.
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Frontlines of protection: Thinking and defining protection against disasters in times of environmental disruptions
Workshop
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Closing the Gap 2022 | Responsibility in Cyberspace: Narratives and Practice
Conference
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference