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14 November 2019

     
Rembrandt has come home
Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. A large number of his early Leiden works are own show at Museum De Lakenhal.

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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change

A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate change. 

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Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks

Textbooks in the Netherlands contain significantly fewer female than male characters and relatively few characters from a non-Western background.

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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’

Her book about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German historian Katja Happe will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November.

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Comic strip on rethinking disability

The researchers from the ERC Rethinking Disability project have shown how disability campaigners managed to place disability on the human rights agenda. Their research has now been converted into a comic strip.

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‘We need to be better prepared for war’

What makes peace missions succeed or fail? Which new technologies will determine the outcome of wars? Too little use has been made of knowledge of modern warfare.

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Four pressured months trying to solve society’s woes
 
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glue
 
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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metals
 
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‘Alcohol should be the new smoking’
 
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Rebuilding Palmyra in Minecraft
 
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator
 
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive
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All news articles of Leiden University
 
Leiden Classics
 
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing
 
Leiden through the eyes of...
 
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Dr Dennis
 
International students
 
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programme
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Working towards a safe work and study environment
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Apply now for the International Leiden Leadership Programme
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CV and application letter workshop
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Meet us in your country
 
International staff
 
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‘Spying’ on talented lecturers
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Push messages with urgent news in Leiden University app
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Show your support for the LGBTQ+ community by wearing purple on 13 December
 
Coming events
 
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18-21 November: Brazil Week 2019 LUCAS (Leiden)
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21 November: Lecture The Making of the Exhibition Shifting Image. In Search of Johan Maurits: (Leiden)
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25 November: Lecture Extinction Crisis: Can we save Africa's Rhinos? (The Hague)
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16 December Christmas Concert (The Hague) 
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Until 27 December: City Photographer exhibition at Oude UB (Leiden)
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All coming events
 
Laureates
 
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KNAW Early Career Awards for three Leiden researchers
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Eveline Crone new ERC Vice-President
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Honorary doctorate for LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn
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All Laureates and appointments
 
Books
 
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Islamophobia and Radicalisation
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Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies
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Leiden blogs
 
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Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog: Sanctioning conflict-related sexual violence
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The Leidener: Sint Maarten the Dutch Halloween tradition
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