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King brings Japanese Emperor to Leiden UniversityState visit 19 June 2026Amidst great interest from locals and visitors, Emperor Naruhito and King Willem-Alexander paid a visit to Leiden University on 18 June. In the Hortus...
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From Classroom to Museum: curating Leiden's archaeological legacy in GalleriaExhibition 19 June 2026For decades, a collection of ancient Mediterranean ceramics and artefacts served as a teaching resource for Archaeology students at the Leiden Faculty...
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Call for Papers: Political Orality in Premodern and Modern Europe (and Beyond)International workshop at Leiden University | 18-19 March 2027 19 June 2026How did political actors speak when confronted with perceived threats to the existing order? And how did such speech, in turn, shape political outcome...
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Leiden Law School Contributes to Strengthening Children’s Rights in Malaysia19 June 2026From 8 to 12 June 2026, Leiden Law School contributed to a five-day programme in Malaysia dedicated to strengthening the implementation of the UN Conv...
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Experience the power of getting active together at the Leiden Health FestivalFestival 19 June 2026During the Leiden Health Festival, neuropsychologist Renske Krijt and exercise scientist Annemarie ten Kate are inviting visitors to get moving. Both ...
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Top 10 per cent of consumers cause trillions in environmental damageEnvironmental science 19 June 2026Those who consume the most also cause the most damage. The 10 per cent of the world’s population who consume the most cause up to $5.7 trillion in env...
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Marcellus Ubbink reappointed as Scientific Director of the LICAppoinment 19 June 2026Marcellus Ubbink has been reappointed as Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) until 1 July 2030. ‘In the coming years, I wan...
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Two professors of the Hebrew bible offered a seminar “The Biblical Covenant and its Afterlife” sponsored by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network18 June 2026The covenant arguably constitutes the core of biblical tradition: the Noachide covenant; the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Mosaic coven...
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Prof. Stephen Russell meets with the CareCentury Team to discuss “Maternal Care in the Ancient Near East”18 June 2026Recently, Prof. Stephen Russell (John Jay College, City College New York), a historian of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East gave a special se...
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Archaeology alumni awarded prestigious Shelby White and Leon Levy GrantArchaeology of West Asia 18 June 2026The Faculty of Archaeology is pleased to announce that alumni Dr Diederik J. H. Halbertsma (NINO, Leiden University) and Dr Michel de Vreeze (Durham U...
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Alumna Melita van der Mersch: ‘Health law is extremely dynamic’Alumni interview 17 June 2026Melita van der Mersch recently received a ‘Gouden Peer’ award for health law from ‘Mr. Online’. The seed for her interest in this field of law was pla...
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Julia Röhrig wins Daniël Heinsius prize for master’s thesis about states’ responses to EctHR rulings17 June 2026Julia Röhrig, a graduate from Universiteit Leiden’s Political Science master’s programme, has won the 2026 Daniel Heinsius Prize of the Flemish and Du...
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European ban on cigarette filters more promising than national measureResearch 17 June 2026Plastic cigarette filters are a major source of litter and microplastics pollution. Legal experts from Leiden University, commissioned by a Dutch mini...
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Order in chaos: mathematician looks for patterns in unpredictable systemsmathematics 16 June 2026What do chemical reactions, epidemics and vegetation have in common? More than you might think, says mathematician Mark van den Bosch (Leiden Universi...
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How do you prepare for the threats of tomorrow?16 June 2026As geopolitical tensions rise and the international landscape becomes increasingly volatile, the Netherlands faces a growing range of threats, from cy...