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'Heroic Humanities', in honour of Isabel Hoving
Conference
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With kind regards: September 2022
Lecture
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Why Humanities? Cristiana Strava on Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture
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Update: Executive Board responds to government cuts
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly (see updates below) look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Lecture on the book The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Lecture
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Bibliometric Data Sources and Indicators 2024
Research
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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A grammar of Ashéninka
PhD defence
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Booklaunch 'Security Studies: An Applied Introduction'
Lecture, Paneldiscussion
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…
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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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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian
PhD defence
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
- Toogdag 2024
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Why Humanities? Arthur Crucq on Art as a "Leftist Hobby"
Lecture
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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New Foundations for Separation Logic
PhD defence
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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Vitality Week 2023: Get your shot of vitamin resilience
Course
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Alumna Sytske Besemer on living and working abroad
This month's flash interview is with alumna Sytske Besemer, Criminologist, who works at a startup called Cradle. Sytske has specifically chosen to work for a company with societal impact. And she is about to move again, this time to Zürich.
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about the effect the drugs can have on depression, anxiety and PTSS, but at the same time they have some doubts. ‘The hype is bound to crash before long.’
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Michiel Westenberg advocates prevention for social anxiety: ‘Why wait until the damage has been done?’
Shyness is perfectly normal, Michiel Westenberg stated in his farewell lecture. But that doesn’t mean that social anxiety shouldn’t be identified and addressed in good time. ‘Serious shyness has strong genetic roots; you don’t just get over it.’
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
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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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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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Japan and the Netherlands in a Global Context: Transnational Intellectual Currents of the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium
- Healthy University Week 2023
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
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Leiden University-Zurich University Workshop: Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
Workshop