Events Archive

LUC presents: The Vagina Monologues

Leiden University College The Hague presents LUC The Vagina Monologues 2012, a performance of the play by Eve Ensler. On April 26, 27 and 28, you are invited to join us at the Branoul Theatre, for an evening of discoveries and heartfelt moments.


4 November: Dreamworld of Empire: Citizenship, Patriotism, and Race, c. 1900

In this lecture, Duncan Bell explores a range of ideas about patriotism and citizenship that circulated in British and American political debates during the opening years of the twentieth century. In particular, Duncan  focuses on ideas about 'isopolitan citizenship' and 'race patriotism'. Moreover, he argues that the much of this racial-imperial discourse was distinctly utopian in form, suggesting that if the Anglo-Saxon 'race' could unite politically it would dominate the twentieth century, bringing peace and to the earth.


14 October: Personal Law and Gendered Citizenship in India

Narendra Subramanian’s talk at the LUCRC brings India into critical focus for the evening. Discussing issues pertaining to ‘Gender Inequality and Personal Law’, Professor Subramanian’s talk will allow students of the LUC and members of the community to come together to inquire into how the largest democracy in the world has negotiated legal, cultural and personal laws since its independence from colonial rule.


Friday 16 September: The Authority of Democracy and Human Rights

LUC is delighted to start its new season of visiting professors with the eminent Raymond Geuss, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, who is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. This lecture is the second in our series, ‘Philosophy in the World ,’ which was inaugurated by Simon Blackburn last year.


11 May: Who’ll pay reparations on my soul?

Much current debate about the imperative to repair historical wrongs turns on the assumption that state reparation works to benefit the victims of atrocity by way of acknowledging wrongful acts, recognising ensuing harms, and ameliorating victim suffering.


4 May: Fighting Terror

After the atrocities of 11 September 2001, countries that had been in the vanguard of promoting human rights and accountability for their violation resorted to measures to combat terrorism that were wholly irreconcilable with their previous position.


20 April: Social Inequality in Latin America

In spite of notorious advances in the well-being of its population during the last decades, Latin-America remains among the most unequal regions of the world. What's the meaning of this inequality and why should it represent a problem?


13 April: On the Causes of War

‘Isn’t it obvious why war occurs?’, many people would say. ‘It is in the nature of ‘sovereign’ states that they would, from time to time, resort to force to address their problems.’ That is indeed so. But this does not explain why a particular war occurs at a particular time or why, among some sovereign states, war has come to be effectively ruled out.


16 March: Plato's Problem about Justice

Why should I be just? At times, the strictures of justice seem to require that I act contrary to my own (perceived) self-interest; if so, and if I have reason to do only what is good for me, then I have no reason to be just—certainly at least not for the sake of justice.