Meet Roos ter Elst - she will be Student well-being counselor for International Studies. That means she'll be doing a lot of activities around students’ state of being and (online) community building. A very useful person to get to know, obviously! In this mini-interview she'll tell a bit more about herself.
Please meet Prof.dr. Maurits S. Berger, your new lecturer for the course "Introduction to International Studies". He is a lawyer and Arabist. He holds the Sultan of Oman chair of Islam and the West at Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and is a senior research associate with the Clingendael Institute for International Relations in The Hague. He has worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam, and as a researcher and journalist in Cairo and Damascus. It's an honour to have him as a lecturer for International Studies!
During the 2020 graduation ceremony, 2019’s two Most Outstanding Students provided their Alumnus speech via video. Imogen Stevens and Karen Chica Gomez congratulated the new graduates on their achievement, and reflected on the past year as they have moved on from International Studies.
On this web page you will find a link to a cloud where all photos made by Leiden University during the graduation ceremony can be found and downloaded for personal usage.
The university’s largest consultancy programme, International Studies’ PRINS, has been connecting international employers with humanities students for six years. Founder Sarita Koendjbiharie: ‘Students of International Studies offer the holistic view that complex social issues need.’
Organised in four separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, a total of 260 students received their Bachelor’s Diploma of International Studies on 28 August 2020 at the graduation ceremony in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden.
Recently, the BAIS Alumni Association organised their yearly reunion. Due to the current circumstances, there was a twist: the reunion – as many events that are currently being organized – took place online. This was a perfect solution for a Bachelor programme that finds its students from all over the world; there were people present from various time zones.
In this year’s PRINS course, so many things were different from previous years. The International Studies consultancy course for third-year BA students took place in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meant that all programme elements were carried out online – including the closing ceremony on June 18.
Participating in a demanding academic course during the Covid-19 pandemic was a challenging experience for everybody involved. This was certainly the case for PRINS, the International Studies consultancy course in which student teams develop solutions to research questions from organisations and companies. Students, research coaches and clients, including aQysta and Amnesty International, reflect on this year’s PRINS edition.
Dear alumni,