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How killer -T-cells migrate towards virus-infected cells
Joost Beltman (LACDR, Leiden University) has provided novel insights in the way T cells migrate towards virus-infected cells. This was accomplished by a combination of experimental research in the group of Ton Schumacher (Dutch Cancer Institute, NKI) and computer simulations in collaboration with Rob…
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Opinion: Renaming ministries plays crucial role in shaping political agenda
Three new ministries have been formed in the Netherlands: Asylum and Migration, Housing and Spatial Planning & Climate and Green Growth. Of course, this is not merely an administrative act. These ministries carry a strong and political charge and play a crucial role in shaping a government's political…
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Struggles of student life are central at OpenUp! symposium
The life of a students is not always easy and many students find it difficult to share their problems with each other. For that reason, the study advisers and coordinators of studies of Campus The Hague organise the symposium OpenUp!. This event was awarded with the Van Bergen Prize.
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1575th student receives Honours College certificate
On the eve of Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, the 1574th and 1575th Honours College students received their honours certificates. In a crowded Scheltema, people celebrated ‘that so many students have had the opportunity to broaden their horizons.’
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Hague city councillors on working visit: ‘The Hague is becoming a real student city’
What does the University mean for The Hague? And what are researchers and students learning from the city and its residents? The Hague city councillors visited Campus The Hague on 27 September and spoke to administrators and researchers. ‘From Schilderswijk to Benoordenhout: we are a university for…
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
PhD defence
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet oder Hekuba and the Question of a Philosophy of History
PhD defence
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Screening in low resource settings
PhD defence
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Prosthetic Joint Infection, new diagnostic and treatment strategies
PhD defence
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The impact of bacterial and uterine factors on subfertility
PhD defence
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Breaking the witches' spell
PhD defence
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Improving antimicrobial prescription in primary care: a multi – dimensional approach to antimicrobial resistance
PhD defence
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Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection
PhD defence
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
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'Why aren't those children at school?'
The new privacy laws make it more difficult to combat human trafficking: under-age victims are often not registered. In her lecture, Cleveringa Professor Corinne Dettmeijer called on everyone to be on the alert. 'We don't want to live in a society where people are treated as throw-away objects.'
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University from September 2014 till February 2015.
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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New Foundations for Separation Logic
PhD defence
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Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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The Market of Health, Vigor and Beauty in the Dutch East indies: The Role of Irregular Physicians and Pharmacies
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Juul EijkFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Abbas Siavash AbkenarFaculty of Humanities
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Erik KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
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Rinske de Kok-Baan
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene Urrutia Schroeder
Faculty of Humanities
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Hyojin PakFaculty of Humanities
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Yasmin Saghafi Ameri
Faculty of Humanities
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Timothy de ZeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision
Lecture
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…
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‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’
‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘Their job is to bridge the gap between the sherds that they find and people’s everyday lives. What do ceramics from the past say about people’s eating…
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Astronomers capture first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has taken the first-ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. The researchers used The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope for this, known as ESO’s VLT. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely…
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden
On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were presented with practical examples, such as speech research with voice recordings of suspects. Forensic phonetics is a young, rapidly developing discipline…
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Forum Antiquum Lectures Spring 2023: The Revisionist Muse: Recent retellings of Greco-Roman myths from a female perspective
Lecture
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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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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Studying the United Nations: From Cyberspace and Peacekeeping to the UN's Public Image and Future
As an interdisciplinary institute in the field of Security Studies, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) covers various topics in its research, one of which is the United Nations and the impact of this global organization in the world.