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325 students received their Bachelor’s Diploma of International Studies on 30 August 2019. The students received their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden, in front of a large audience of family and friends. With more than 1100 people present, including 325 graduates, this was the largest graduation ceremony of the programme since its founding in 2012
On July 6, about thirty International Studies alumni met up at Café Luden for a reunion. Featuring talks by The Hague's deputy mayor Robert van Asten, Sarita Koendjbiharie, and of course plenty of drinks and bitterballen: it was a great success. Interested to hear what other International Studies alumni are up to these days? Watch the video below!
The International Studies programme would like to invite you to the Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2019-2020 by Prof. Eric Kaufmann. You can register through the link displayed on the right hand side of this page!
This year Leiden University, and therefore our faculty, celebrates its 444th anniversary. This calls for a special festive evening for students and staff of the Faculty of Humanities.
You’ve finished your bachelor’s programme! What’s next?
Did you start the BA International Studies in 2018? And have you just successfully completed your first year? Well done! We would like to celebrate this with you at our first propedeuse ceremony.
For PRINS 2019, the Rainforest Alliance (RA) presented the case ‘Eliminating deforestation from global commodity chains’. With this case, RA was seeking effective approaches and technologies that reduce both deforestation and economic exclusion of farmers in the supply chains of cocoa, coffee, tea and bananas. In addition, they sought ‘feasible, adequate and comprehensible certification criteria’ that could be directly integrated into RA’s new small-hold farmers’ programmes across the agricultural sectors listed above.
What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his Master’s in Russian and Eurasian Studies, in combination with a bustling traineeship for “Raam of Rusland”, a think tank, focusing on Russian and Ukrainian politics, economy and culture. How does he do it? In this interview, he elaborates.
For PRINS 2019, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF, formerly known as World Wildlife Fund) presented the case ‘Addressing the investment gap: exploring frontiers in sustainable finance.’ WWF was seeking solutions to complex questions around sustainable finance and development. This included a full-spectrum analysis of what drives the credibility and financial viability of sustainable finance mechanisms, examining cultural-historical, economic and political factors.