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International Studies

The Final Year: Reflections and Emotions (2022)

Ana Oleart Rabanal, recent graduate of the B.A. International, reminisces about her third year in the program.

Technology & Society · Leiden University

The LU Human Scanners Controversy: is there a better way to think about IT and control?

Two years since classroom scanners were placed at Leiden University to monitor room usage, what have we learnt about the implications of collecting data in public spaces and what can we (and the University) do?

International Studies · Leiden University

What role should universities play in society? In politics?

University Social Responsibility is a recent concept. We know about Corporate Social Responsibility as an attempt to take the hard edges off free market capitalism, but USR?

International Studies

Word from the Chair: Ten Years of the BA International Studies

2022 is a major anniversary year. In September 2012 the first students signed up for the BA International Studies in The Hague. The expectation was that the new programme should ideally attract around 250 students a year.

Politics · Social Justice & Human Rights

Word from the Chair: Everyone is a gamechanger

On 21 April the Four Freedoms Awards were presented in Middelburg. Four what? I hear you say. The ‘thinking person’s Oscars’, or the ‘poor person’s Nobel’, the FFs draw their inspiration from Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms speech’ on 6 January 1941.

An Ancient Civilization Alive Today

Lecturer Natalia Donner gave a critical tour of the Aztec exhibition in the Volkenkundig Museum in Leiden. One of her students reports about the excursion and the central question: how to frame objects from an ancient civilization that is still alive but marginalized today?