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University strengthens ties with Indonesia02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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Alumnus Chris Colijn on his traineeship at a think tank, his master’s degree and advice for other graduates01 July 2019What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his master’s in Russian and Euras...
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Refugees build a new future in Leiden27 May 2019Solafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leid...
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Alumni event South and Southeast Asian Studies: an inspiring afternoon20 May 2019On Saturday 11 May 2019, the BA South and Southeast Asian Studies programme held an Alumni Event for former students. All current students and staff w...
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Alumni stand for European Parliament17 May 2019Fourteen of the candidates for the European parliamentary elections on 23 May studied at Leiden University. We ask four of them about their motivation...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’16 May 2019Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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New Rembrandt Route takes in seven Leiden University buildings13 May 2019Seven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...
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International Studies helped Nassim Abba broaden his horizon: ‘Everyone brings their own outlook with them’27 March 2019Nassim was in the first cohort of students who began the bachelor’s programme in International Studies in 2012. His foreign classmates changed his out...
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‘Everyone who wanted to work in Brussels has got a job in Brussels’22 February 2019On the day that Leiden University celebrated its 444th birthday, we organised drinks for our alumni who live and work in the Brussels area.
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’20 February 2019Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 157504 February 2019Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...
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Being an Indonesian PhD in Leiden: what is that like?24 January 2019Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme....
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Every European citizen trilingual?15 January 2019
Leiden University linguist Lisa Cheng speaks two Chinese languages, as well as English and Dutch. She is a strong supporter of the European Commission...
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World29 November 2018Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle ...
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CD release PARTIMENTI NAPOLETANI09 November 2018ACPA alumna Nicoleta Paraschivescu has released her CD -PARTIMENTI NAPOLETANI, a musical complement to her book Paisiellos Partimenti: Wege zu einem p...