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How worshipping your grandfather ensures your social status 17 July 2024
In Ancient Egypt, prominent families engaged in ancestor worship to maintain their high standing. Renata Schiavo researched this link between religion...
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University 17 July 2024
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Alumnus Marlon Titre: ‘Film is often the start of a conversation’ 17 July 2024
Marlon Titre (1982) studied at Royal Conservatoire The Hague, did his PhD and studied at Leiden University, earned several other qualifications and is...
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Stephanie Noach wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize 16 July 2024
University lecturer Stephanie Noach has won the Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. She is receiving this prestigious prize for ...
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’ 16 July 2024
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping ...
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia? 15 July 2024
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and S...
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The dean Mark Rutgers speaks at penultimate session of flash campaign 15 July 2024
After the new government announced its plans to cut expenditure on academic education, the Faculty of Humanities launched the flash campaign ‘Stop the...
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Integrative learning to improve connection with labour market: 'Digital skills are badly needed' 15 July 2024
Many humanities graduates find work in digital heritage, but a good pedagogical model to match education is lacking. University lecturers Karin de Wil...
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 2024 10 July 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research:...
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Ready for the digital future: The Humanities Hub 08 July 2024
The future is digital. That is why the new Humanities Hub for Digital Research Skills, and Media (in short: Humanities Hub) will soon open its doors i...
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Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great' 05 July 2024
The History programme has been working for several years to make the curriculum more diverse and inclusive. With a Comenius grant, university lecturer...
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Death and the Digital Realm 02 July 2024
Event co-sponsored by the IAPDD, Leiden University, and the Australian Research Council project “Digital Death and Immortality”
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’ 02 July 2024
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circul...
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Documentation of International Symposium What Methods Do 28 June 2024
The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination...
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Connecting the Doelen complex to the Thermal Energy Storage in 2025 27 June 2024
Leiden University is working hard to make its buildings more sustainable, also on the Humanities Campus. An important step in this context is the cons...