News
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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 World 29 November 2018
Did 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 NAPOLETANI 09 November 2018
ACPA alumna Nicoleta Paraschivescu has released her CD -PARTIMENTI NAPOLETANI, a musical complement to her book Paisiellos Partimenti: Wege zu einem p...
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Work and thrive in an international environment 04 October 2018
Three years after the very first cohort of the Leiden University Bachelor of International Studies graduated, approximately 40 alumni and staff got to...
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Students International Studies receive their diploma 31 August 2018
The students received their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden, in front of a large audience of family and friends. With more than 1,000 p...
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships 10 August 2018
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and...
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First BAIS Alumni Reunion Memorable Success! 13 July 2018
On a sunny Saturday on June 9th, the first Alumni Reunion of the BA International Studies took place in The Hague. Organised in Café Schlemmers, a st...
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Leiden University Fund awards grants 12 June 2018
Over thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad' 04 June 2018
Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compell...
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers' 04 June 2018
The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...
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Non-standard career path: from studying Japanese to making offices greener 29 May 2018
The Linked In profile of alumnus Arne Driessen describes him as a ‘serial entrepreneur’. After studying Japanese he ended up working for a translation...
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Rutte in Leiden: ‘Only studying is such a waste of opportunity’ 15 March 2018
From political confessions to life lessons from his own student time. On 14 March, Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave candid answers to questions from Lei...
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How Romana became a trainee at the Dutch Embassy in Amman 08 March 2018
Romana Osman (24) knew one thing for sure: she wanted to work at an embassy in the Middle East. However, finding a position turned out to be rather ch...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students 06 March 2018
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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The Leiden Connection - screenwriter Gerard Soeteman looks back 14 February 2018
Gerard Soeteman (1936) created a furore as a screenwriter of films that became classics (Dutch films: Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje, de Aanslag), bu...