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Gianclaudio Malgieri at the Privacy Symposium 2024 in Venice 02 July 2024
Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at eLaw, was invited to speak at the third edition of the prestigious 'Privacy Symposi...
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’ 02 July 2024
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circul...
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Using mobile technology for self-directed language learning 01 July 2024
Self-directed learning is more suitable for intermediate and advanced language learners than for beginners.
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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery 01 July 2024
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that estab...
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Students work on a cold case: ‘We look in a different way than the police’ 01 July 2024
Sixteen master’s students from a variety of disciplines are helping The Hague Police to find new clues in a cold case. ‘The photographs are like the o...
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Renske Gilissen Professor by Special Appointment of Suicide Prevention 01 July 2024
Every day, five people die by suicide in the Netherlands. Suicide is a complex phenomenon and consequently many questions remain about how to reduce t...
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Leiden master’s students in Labour Law compete at Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition in Vienna 01 July 2024
From 20 to 23 June 2024, the prestigious Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition took place in Vienna. Students from Leiden Law School also participated.
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Poems and thoughts: creative honours course 'A Taste of Leadership' leaves you wanting more 28 June 2024
What do you derive your self-esteem from? Not a question you would quickly expect in a course on leadership. Lecturer Michel Don Michaloliákos opted f...
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Documentation of International Symposium What Methods Do 28 June 2024
The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination...
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Parenting choices and parenting styles important in transmission of extremist views within families 28 June 2024
Do children growing up in a jihadist or right-wing extremist household develop the same extremist views as their parents? That depends in part on broa...
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Researcher teaching in the classroom: ‘We need to imitate nature more closely’ 27 June 2024
How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens Lyceum in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students abou...
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Connecting the Doelen complex to the Thermal Energy Storage in 2025 27 June 2024
Leiden University is working hard to make its buildings more sustainable, also on the Humanities Campus. An important step in this context is the cons...
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'One in five bacteria we tested were capable of breaking down plastic' 27 June 2024
Leiden PhD candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly twenty percent of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade plastic, though they n...
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Meijers’ impact still felt in Leiden 70 years after his death 27 June 2024
Eduard Meijers, former rector magnificus of Leiden University, is known as the founder of the Dutch Civil Code. A symposium held on 24 June 2024 refle...
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery 27 June 2024
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building fe...