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January 2023

From law student to successful entrepreneur: Yousef Yousef

When law student Yousef Yousef declined the invitation to join the Law Faculty’s talent group, a professor stopped him at the entrance to the KOG and asked if he hadn’t made a mistake. ‘I replied that I was going to focus on the business which was going to change the world.’

Invitation Dies Natalis 2023

Celebrate with us the 448th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 8 February, live in the Pieterskerk or online. A simultaneous translation of the ceremony will be available in English and the entire ceremony will be livestreamed.

Leiden University and Unicef extend cooperation on children’s rights

Leiden University and Unicef have already been working together for ten years to increase and share information on children’s rights. Professor of Children’s Rights Ton Liefaard explains what has already been achieved and what he wants to achieve in the next five years.

Join our Leiden alumni event in Brussels

All Leiden alumni working and/or living in Brussels are welcome at the Leiden alumni event on Thursday 23 February 2023. For more information and to register, please click the link below. And feel free to invite your fellow Leiden alumni in Brussels!

News from your university

More news

► Why electric vehicle batteries are good and bad for the environment

► 'Shame in the workplace can lead to stress, conflict and even burnout'

► People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago
► Law alumna Charlotte Vrendenbarg: ‘I get energy from students’

► Improving safety assessment of nanoparticles

► European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'

► Specialized immune cells carry potential for new cancer immunotherapies

► Professor Bleda Düring interviewed for podcast Tides of History

►Feminist fatwas: How female Islamic scholars influence the religious landscape in Indonesia

► Is repetitive exposure to Salmonella a risk factor for colon cancer?

► More news

Events

► 'The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI'
19 January | Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden | Public Lecture

► Advocates, Critics or Partners? The Shifting Relationships between Civil Society and International Criminal Mechanisms
26 January | Wijnhaven The Hague

► Career opportunities PhD's outside academia (LUCL)
27 January | Leiden

► The European Court of Human Rights reading between the lines
31 January | KOG Leiden | Lecture Rick Lawson

► Machine Learning for Medical Imaging
6 February | Online | SAILS Lunch Time Seminar

► Why Poetry? A Sufi Response

7 February | Leiden | Lecture

► Leiden University Dies Natalis 2023
8 February | Leiden & Online

► From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland

8 February | Leiden & Online | Lunch webinar

► Widening the horizon of outer space law

9 February | Leiden & Online | PhD Defence Tanja Masson-Zwaan

► Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages

9 February | Leiden | Workshop
► Alumni event in Brussels
23 February | Brussels

► Pop-up ArcheoHotspot

1 March | Leiden

► All events

Life Long Learning

► Sustainability Transition: Global Challenges, Local Actions
17 January Start | Online | MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

► All Leiden MOOCs

Podcasts/ Books etc

► Are the brains of males different from those of females? | Podcast

► A digital platform-driven COVID-19 vaccine drive amidst a digital divide: Lessons from India | Leiden Law Blog
► When Corporations Disrespect Women's Human Rights: Access to Good Quality Remediation | Leiden Law Blog

► How sensational is Indonesia’s new Criminal Code? | Leiden Law Blog

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