Category: Announcement

February 2018: Candlemas Evening

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Candlemas is an evening of music, poetry, readings and other contributions from our own members. Guests will be welcomed with coffee or glühwein and you will be free to wander amongst the pianos until the programme starts! During the interval we will serve a buffet supper and drinks.

Date: Saturday, Feb. 3rd, starting at 7 pm
Place: “Emilie van Leenen Piano’s”, Lammermark 59, 2312 CM, Leiden
Price: €15

More information [here]

October 2017: Round table with Dr. Stan Brouns

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Dear alumni, We are proud to announce a new round table event at which you get the chance to listen to an eminent speaker in a small and intimate setting and ask questions. As we all agree to keep what was said inside the room to ourselves (Chatham House rules), everyone is free to express themselves.

The speaker is Dr. Stan Brouns, a renowned expert on CRISPR/Cas genome editing and microbe/bacteriophage interactions, topics which are almost daily in the news. Dr. Brouns has been contributing to public discussion rounds and his presentation titled ”How microbes keep their CRISPR memory up to date“ will be aimed at non- experts. Further details on his work can be found on his homepage: https://www.brounslab.org.

Please register by replying to Johannes Hohlbein (j.hohlbein {at} gmail.com). The event will be limited to 12 participants.

Place: Den Haag, Benoordenhout, further details upon registration
When:  Thursday, October 26th, 2017; starting at 7.30 pm
7.30 – 8.30 pm: Small reception
8.30 – 9.30 pm: Talk by Dr. Stan Brouns with discussion afterwards
Price: €10 for drinks and nibbles to be paid upon arrival

More information can be found [here].

 

November 2017: Annual Dinner

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Dear alumni, We are proud to announce our next event, the Annual Dinner with guest speaker, Dirk Brengelmann, a distinguished diplomat whose career includes appointments to Haiti, London, Washington and Brazil. Between 2010 and 2013 he was NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy in Brussels. Herr Brengelmann has been the German Ambassador to the Hague since August 2016.

Date: Friday, Nov. 3th, starting at 7:30 pm
Place: The Penthouse, Haagse Toren, The Hague
Price: €60 for members + €60 for one guest, €75 for non-members.

More information can be found [here] and click [here] for the registration form.