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Work and thrive in an international environment04 October 2018Three 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 diploma31 August 2018The 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 friendships10 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 2018On 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 grants12 June 2018Over 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 2018Professor 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 2018The 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 greener29 May 2018The 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 2018From 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 Amman08 March 2018Romana 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 students06 March 2018A 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 back14 February 2018Gerard Soeteman (1936) created a furore as a screenwriter of films that became classics (Dutch films: Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje, de Aanslag), bu...
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Out into the world, camera in hand: Tulasi Das became a filmmaker01 February 2018Leiden alumna Tulasi Das moved to England to pursue a career in film, was accepted onto the BBC Trainee Scheme and now works in London as a researcher...
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Maarten Asscher as mentor: ‘It's at the periphery of your own discipline that things happen'11 January 2018Alumnus Maarten Asscher (60) is mentor of the month. He studied Law in Leiden and has worked as a literary publisher, senior official at the Ministry...
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Highlights of 2017: our most read articles18 December 2017An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...