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Robert Zwijnenberg: ‘Don’t just talk but dare to get your hands dirty’ 21 July 2020
Rob Zwijnenberg, Professor of Art and Science Interactions, uses daring experiments to get his students to think about social issues. "People who I in...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research 15 July 2020
Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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'Migration and integration policies for the future only work with knowledge from the past.' 06 July 2020
An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’ 03 July 2020
Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...
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Looking for a job with impact – Check the webinar! 29 June 2020
Marliese Vollebregt (BA International Studies, MA International Relations) works at JINC, a Dutch NGO focusing on equal opportunities for children. Af...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’ 05 June 2020
It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’ 04 June 2020
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer 28 May 2020
FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enab...
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Sara Polak warns about social media: ‘What do you do with those tweets by Trump?’ 25 May 2020
Sara Polak, American Studies expert and University Lecturer investigates how American presidents deal with the media and how new, social media influen...
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Open Call How do you experience a quieter city? 18 May 2020
How do you experience a quieter city? Or a silenced city? Our cities are normally filled with noise. The corona crisis has changed that. Few or no peo...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation 14 May 2020
Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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‘Once you really learn to listen, a whole new world opens up’ 08 May 2020
Marcel Cobussen, professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, has made listening his speciality. From the sounds of a microwave to chirruping b...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project 28 April 2020
A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories 23 April 2020
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Share your RECORDINGS with the Journal of Sonic Studies 16 April 2020
......documentation of the sonic impacts of COVID-19. Many of you have heard the sounds of Wuhan residents chanting “Keep it up, Wuhan!” or Italians s...