Newsletter  
18 June 2013  
 
 
 
 
 
  Michael Ignatieff appointed Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University
Michael Ignatieff, Canadian author, university professor and former politician, has been appointed Cleveringa Professor for the 2013-2014 academic year at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Professor Ignatieff will deliver the Cleveringa lecture on 26 November 2013.
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  Lectures for 30,000 students
From 10 June, the whole world can follow free lectures given by Leiden Professor of European Law Stefaan Van den Bogaert. He will be teaching an online course on 'The Law of the European Union: An Introduction'. More than 30,000 students will be following the digital lectures.
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  Oxytocin does not make women with a harsh upbringing more empathetic
The ‘cuddle hormone’ oxytocin does not make women who had a harsh upbringing more empathetic towards other people who are being excluded from the group. Extra oxytocin is effective in women who have had a more sensitive upbringing. These are the findings of PhD research by Madelon Hendricx-Riem.
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  Jan Kolen Director of LDE Center for Global Heritage and Development
Archaeologist Professor Jan Kolen has been appointed Director of the LDE Center for Global Heritage and Development (CGHD) with effect from 1 July 2013. This new inter-university heritage center is due to start in the autumn of 2013 within the framework of the strategic alliance between Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam (LDE).
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More news
New drugs: do the calculations first, before testing on patients
Leiden hosts meeting of European Rectors
Speech in Leiden by Polish Minister Sikorski
Image of the sun causes pupils to constrict

  View from abroad
Charles Jeurgens: 'Indonesian archives are a goldmine for historians’
 

  International students
Len Buis: 'I'm always on the side of the student'
Sign up for the Student Research Conference 2013
When worlds collide: the ISN Cultural Festival 2013
Summer school at the Academic Language Centre
 

  International staff
P&O News 21 May 2013
Invite your students to the Student Research Conference 2013
 

  Leiden classics
Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch Leonardo da Vinci
 

 
  Coming events
20 June: Lecture on Islamic Finance: an Alternative Ethical Niche
20 June: Workshop Getting ready for Horizon 2020  
21 June: Writing and literacy in early traditional China
21 June: Midsummer Night in the Hortus Botanicus
27 June: Practicum Musicae concert
28-29 June: The State, Violence and the Rule of Law in Korean-Japanese History
26-30 August: Summer School on International Children's Rights
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  Laureates
Three new Leiden members of KNAW
Thirteen VIDI grants for Leiden researchers
Mario van der Stelt and Laura Heitman have been awarded an NWO ECHO-STIP grant  
 

  Books
Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History with chapters by Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen
The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa, edited by Mirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van Dijk
 

  Blogs
Leiden Law blog: Are absolute privatisation bans allowed?
Leiden Psychology blog: The compensatory effects of food
Leiden Islam Blog: A week in the shadow of Taksim
 

 
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