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Successful Leiden edition of Constitutional Law Conference04 March 2025Since 1973, scholars of constitutional law have gathered for the annual Constitutional Law Conference. This conference is organised alternately at a l...
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De Hoe?Zo! Show teaches children that science is anything but boringChildren 04 March 2025Why is water wet? What is ADHD? In De Hoe?Zo! Show, curious 9-and-10-year-olds get answers to their questions. PhD candidates take to the stage to dem...
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‘Grassroots projects can help democracy’04 March 2025Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrig...
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Anniversary activity: visit Leiden University at the Impact Fair 2025!03 March 2025Leiden University will share impactful research and teaching with policymakers, businesses and the general public at the Impact Fair in Utrecht on Thu...
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‘Strengthen the position of the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands’Oratie 03 March 2025Relations within the Kingdom of the Netherlands are imbalanced, says Professor by Special Appointment Wouter Veenendaal. The Caribbean autonomous coun...
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Online exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies27 February 2025From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden Univers...
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Four Leiden University researchers awarded Vici grantsResearch grants 27 February 2025From research on the first human ancestors to leave Africa to mathematical models in random disturbances. For Leiden researchers have been awarded a p...
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Christa Tobler speaks at the University of Tasmania (Australia) about age discrimination26 February 2025During a visit to the University of Tasmania on 26 February 2025, Christa Tobler organised a staff seminar on the topic ‘Do we need a UN Convention on...
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Customisation: balancing rules and reality25 February 2025When general laws and regulations no longer fit individual situations, can customisation offer a solution? In the special issue ‘Maatwerk' (customisat...
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Strike on 10 March: join the teach-outs at schools and public organisations25 February 2025Leiden University staff will be starting the national staggered strike against the cuts to higher education on 10 March. The Leiden and The Hague Acti...
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Finally solved: how the body's own marijuana spreads through the brain24 February 2025Since its discovery thirty years ago, it remained a mystery: how does the body’s own marijuana move between nerve cells in the brain? Mario van der St...
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Congratulations, Dr. Sarah Coombs!PHD DEFENCE 24 February 2025On 21 February 2025, Sarah Coombs successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University in which she analysed the impact of research conducted by ...
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Leiden Law School hosts LDE workshop on migration justice in the Americas21 February 2025Leiden Law School will host the LDE-Majority World Workshop titled ‘Contemporary Migrations in the Americas: Cross-Atlantic Dialogue for Socio-Spatial...
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Preserving Bonaire’s Heritage: The Proteha mi Project21 February 2025The "Proteha mi" project, an initiative by the Bonaire Archaeological Institute (BONAI), has been awarded significant grants under the Faro Initiative...
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Exploring the materials and heritage involved in the Belt and Road Initiative21 February 2025Dr Maikel Kuijpers, a staff member at the Faculty of Archaeology and a guest researcher at the Centre for Environmental Sciences (CML), is participati...