Academia & Education

Social Justice & Human Rights

Academic Panel on Palestine: Freedom of Expression, Freedom to Exist

On November 23rd 2021, Students for Palestine organized an academic panel on Palestine, specifically the intersection of activism and the university. Participating students report on the event and explain why academia and politics do not exist in isolation.

Students for Palestine • 24-01-2022

Economics

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (part II)

In this sequel, Marat Markert advances three arguments why misunderstanding money, banking and the monetary system might have repercussions beyond the pages of a textbook, and what to do about it.

Dr. M. Markert • 06-12-2021

Economics

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (Part I of II)

The journalist Henry Louis Mencken once quipped: “Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong.”

Dr. M. Markert • 25-10-2021

Social Justice & Human Rights

Reimagining the University from Below

"Decades of budget cuts and market incentives are threatening the role of universities: to stimulate critical thinking," argues Judith Naeff. It is time that staff and students take action together.

Dr. J.A. Naeff • 15-10-2021

Politics · Social Justice & Human Rights

Academics sound the alarm: towards a normal academic standard

On 6 April 2021 academics across the Netherlands protested against on-going austerity in higher education. Leiden University lecturers explain why.

Dr. J.A. Naeff • 21-04-2021

International Studies

Perspectives in the Time of Corona

We are certainly living in very uncertain times, but one thing seems to be clear: we will face one of the harshest economic, social, and health crises of our times.

F.J. López • 29-04-2020

Technology & Society · International Studies

Digital Education: Fast and Furious?

A few years ago I made a MOOC - a Massive Open-Access Online Course – for Leiden University on the Coursera platform. Its called The Rooseveltian Century, re-interpreting US history in the 20th century through the lives of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • 08-04-2020

International Studies

Joost Augusteijn's reflections on International Studies as former Chair of the Programme

When I became Chair of the International Studies programme in February 2016, I already knew it as a lecturer, who had taught History Europe from its inception, and as Director of Education of the Institute for History with responsibility for staffing many courses in the programme.

Dr. J. Augusteijn • 05-03-2020

International Studies

Break down the barriers @International Studies

Barriers between us appear to have reached insurmountable heights. Whether we are talking about sex and gender, race and ethnicity, or other characteristics we all have, the world sometimes feels like a battleground.

Dr. J. Kamphuis • 11-09-2019

Blogs

Academic Panel on Palestine: Freedom of Expression, Freedom to Exist

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (part II)

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (Part I of II)

Reimagining the University from Below

Academics sound the alarm: towards a normal academic standard

Perspectives in the Time of Corona

Digital Education: Fast and Furious?

Joost Augusteijn's reflections on International Studies as former Chair of the Programme

Break down the barriers @International Studies