1,030 search results for “this week s discoveries” in the Staff website
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
PhD defence
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
PhD defence
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
- LACDR Townhall meeting & LACDR New Year's drinks
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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Graduation ceremonies Advanced Master's Leiden Law School 2020
Graduation ceremony
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Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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Combatting violence against children: what are the lessons learnt?
In the context of the 2021 Day of General Discussion of the UN Committee on Rights of the Child, this time dedicated to alternative care, Defence for Children in collaboration with Leiden University has contributed with a paper on the 2019 Dutch Inquiry Committee on Historical Child Abuse in Alternative…
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Managing humanity's insanity: Becoming truly human within planetary boundaries
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Leiden University Green Office / L.A.S. Terra Movie Night
Arts and culture
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Symposium in honor of Adamantia Panagopoulou's PhD defence
Conference
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Lecture, Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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International Women's Day workshop: Freedom and refugees
LeidenGlobal Workshop
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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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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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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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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No exams or lectures, but building a radio telescope with empty paint cans
No more lectures and exams for the Radio Astronomy course taught by Michiel Brentjens. The corona crisis is a moment of reflection that has changed his whole way of teaching. Instead of being in front of the class, he lets his students build a radio telescope with paint cans.
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PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff
Training
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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world
It is becoming increasingly common to collect data from children and young people through digital means. The impact of this so-called ‘dataveillance’ on children, who are monitored from birth via smartphones and Fitbits, is great.
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. P.D.S. Dijkstra
Valedictory lecture
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
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Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China’s New Economy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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European security in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Debate
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Graduation Ceremony Advanced LLM International Children’s Rights
Graduation Ceremony
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The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?
Festival
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Graduation ceremony bachelor’s programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Leiden Law School and the Mexican Supreme Court strengthen collaboration
Leiden Law School and the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Mexican Supreme Court (CEC-SCJN) have signed a memorandum of understanding, to carry out joint activities in the field of constitutional law and children's rights.
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Graduation ceremony bachelor's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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Illuminating the Journey of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H.
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Mariëlle Bruning on waiting lists in Dutch youth care
How many children are waiting for help from youth services in the Netherlands at any given time? And exactly how long do they have to wait?
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two female students from South Africa to come and study in Leiden.
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.
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The Political Economy of an Enigma: Exploring Vietnam's Domestic Dynamics and International Role
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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The construction of China’s national interest: Between top-down rule and societal ideas
PhD defence
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CEES webinar: Women's political representation in Central and Eastern Europe
Lecture
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Subsidie voor Shelley van der Veek om peuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren
Het onderzoeksproject heeft als doel ouders te helpen hun kleuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren door het bevorderen van sensitieve voeding tijdens de fase wanneer peuters kieskeurig met eten worden.
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Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet oder Hekuba and the Question of a Philosophy of History
PhD defence
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EU Seminar and debate on the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize
Debate, Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture