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Utrecht: Unexpected allies and food activism in quarantine
This blogpost is a reflection of research assistant Marilena Poulopoulou on the food relief initiative she took part in between May and August 2020 in the city of Utrecht.
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'
The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre in 2019. A woman with a deep awareness of historical places, she sees it as more of a series of coincidences, but the…
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Enthusiasm for PRINS 2022
This year’s edition of PRINS, the International Studies’ consultancy course, proved to be an inspiring event for most of its participants. Students, coaches and representatives of organisations are looking back on this rollercoaster of a course and reflect on why the PRINS experience is so special.
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Philosopher of law Ali Kösedag: Hague heart, Leiden mind
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 fourth instalment: alumnus and philosopher of law Ali Kösedag (1992): ‘Philosophising about equality before the law in the Netherlands at an early-morning…
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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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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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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No moderation in tone at Trump's inauguration
The brand-new American President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on 20 January. There was little sign of conciliation and he was liberal with the truth, in the opinion of a number of Leiden academics. One professor is more positive: 'He wants to take on radical Islam.'
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis
No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14th and 15th centuries. Can historians learn anything from the coronavirus crisis? And what can we learn at the moment from historians? These are questions…
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Online Dies Natalis for Alumni 2023
Alumni event
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PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching
Course, Hackathon
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Healthcare interpreting today and tomorrow
Lecture
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The Hague Space Diplomacy Symposium
Conference
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LLRC conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching
Conference
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Career College: To PhD or not to PhD?
Career and apply for jobs
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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Cleveringa Meeting The Hague
Alumni event
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
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Johan Van Manen’s Tibetan and Himalayan Collection: The Challenges of Multi-media Research
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Teaching in Practice (UTQ module)
Didactics
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GP in Spain in times of corona
What’s the situation like in Spain in these times of corona? Dr Jan Otto Landman (Medicine, Leiden, 1979) has a GP practice in Torremolinos and Fuengirola, Southern Spain, and since 16 March he has been writing blogs about corona on the Facebook page of his practice. He has covered issues such as the…
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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Workshop: Entrepreneurship with Sjoerd Louwaars and Vahit Güzel the founder of Choco & Things
Career and apply for jobs
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Towards Healthy Societies
Conference, Network event
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
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Images as Data: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Data Loaders Workshop
Workshop Series
- Workshop: UNESCO AI and Open Science
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Language use and language attitudes among Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
- LUGO Discussion: Sustainability in Leiden University
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Workshop Competences in Humanities
Career and apply for jobs
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
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CompaRe: Smart and lean integration: finding regional solutions to global challenges
Conference
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Speeddate Humanities
Study information
- YAL Listening Session @Archeology & CML
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
Lecture
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Workshop CV & Cover letter
Course
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop Series
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
- YAL Listening Session @FSW
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
- Scheduled maintenance storage Infrastructure