Newsletter

16 March 2017

‘Morocco Institute crucial for better understanding of Arab world’
The renewed Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) was opened officially on 1 March in Rabat.

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LERU lobbies in Europe for fundamental research and innovation

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on 7 March in Brussels.

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Vice-Rector Hester Bijl: 'More personalised learning'

She has held office for over a hundred days, and is enthusiastic about what she has seen of the University thus far.

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The placebo effect: first world congress in Leiden

Medicines can work even without an active ingredient. The first international scientific conference on placebos will take place in Leiden from 2 to 4 April.

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Students help Facebook in battle against fake news

Leiden master's students of Journalism and New Media are going to help Facebook bar fake news from social media.

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European Research Council: ten years of leading research

The European Research council (ERC) was founded ten years ago today. The ERC is an important agency for research funding, including to Leiden University.

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Anime as a source of human knowledge

Japanese animated films are often fantastic to watch. What's less well-known is that anime often has a political message.

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More news
 
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Ambassador Latvia visits Leiden University Library
 
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Leiden University offers teacher training programme for status holders
 
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Changes that threaten heritage
 
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business
 
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Big data on a small scale
 
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Summer Schools 2017: from Biopharmacy to Papyrology
 
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All news articles
Leiden Classics
Morocco through Dutch eyes
View from abroad
Studying in Rabat
International students
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March Mentor Network month
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International students as election observers in Leiden
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Open Day: ‘The programme is what's most important'
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From decentral selection procedures to ICT projects
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Honours Class students defend plans for society
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Meet us in your country
International staff
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Tax return 2016 due before 1 May
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Third party work beside your job? Fine, but...
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Call for Lorentz-eScience competition 2018
Coming events
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17 March: Seminar on the Rights and Challenges of LGBTIQ Children
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21 March: Seminar ‘Brexit and the colonial determinants of the deserving/undeserving poor’
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23 March: Leiden Alumni Meeting in Barcelona
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5 April: Conference on Diversity and Inclusiveness
 
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All coming events
Laureates
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Annelise Reid wins Speckmann Prize 2017
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Best Spanish doctoral thesis in soil science
Books
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Human trafficking and trauma in the digital era, by Mirjam can Reisen and Munyaradze Maware
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Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations, edited by Carsten Stahn, Jennifer Easterday and Jens Iverson
Leiden blogs
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Leiden Arts in Society Blog: Courtroom Sketches
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African Studies Centre Leiden Blog: Counter voices in Africa
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Leiden Anthropology Blog: A discourse of displacement: the local infrastructure of populism
This month in the Leiden Asia Year
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17 March: Collecting Asia Symposium
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18 March: Chinese and Japanese calligraphy workshop (First of Three)
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19 March: Classical concert by Maki Tasaka, Natalia Pιrez Rodriguez, Viktoria Nikolova & Adina Rojas Oprean
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All coming events in the Leiden Asia Year
Leiden research in the spotlight
Asia: From local expertise to knowledge of a continent
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