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‘In these times you need all the help and connections you can get’ 18 January 2021
Because they could really have used it during their own time as students. For many alumni, that’s their reason for signing up for the mentors network ...
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LIAS alumnus Dr Ruixuan Chen awarded Ernst Waldschmidt Prize 21 December 2020
Dr Ruixuan Chen, an alumnus of the LIAS and now assistant professor in Buddhist Studies at Heidelberg, has been awarded the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize. T...
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Mouse & Manuscript: a Collection of Interactive Lessons on Codicology and Oriental Manuscripts 18 December 2020
This week sees the first edition of the textbook Mouse&Manuscript published online. Mouse&Manuscript is a collection of interactive lessons on codicol...
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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’ 16 December 2020
Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Gee...
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Researcher Marte Luesink: ‘I’ve always been interested in crisis situations.’ 15 December 2020
Alumna Marte Luesink took both a bachelor’s in International Studies and a master’s in International Politics at Leiden University. Very quickly after...
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The Musical Work, Free Improvisation, and Live Electronics: Towards an Integrated Musical Paradigm. 07 December 2020
Composer, bass player and ACPA alumnus Ilya Ziblat Shay presented a paper at the Music Weekend and Midlands New Music Symposium, organised by Nottingh...
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UN Youth Delegate Dennis Jansen: 'We live as if there are ten earths' 02 December 2020
Alumnus Dennis Jansen was recently elected as Youth Delegate at the United Nations. For the next two years, he is committed to the area of Sustainable...
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‘In those days you could learn as much as you wanted at university’ 19 November 2020
Having flirted with Egyptology and Italian, Dieuwertje Kuijpers found her true calling in the Master’s in European Union Studies. She is now a freelan...
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Congratulations to the first Arts, Media and Society cohort! 23 September 2020
The Groot-Auditorium of the Academy building was recently stage to the graduation of the first cohort of the BA-track Arts, Media and Society. This im...
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands? 17 September 2020
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. W...
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From Leiden student to Australian Ambassador to the Holy See 15 September 2020
Chiara Porro from Australia studied International Relations and Diplomacy at Leiden University and has been Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See sin...
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ACPA alumnus Riccardo Giacconi has been awarded a LUF grant 04 September 2020
In November 2019 visual artist and PhDArts candidate Riccardo Giacconi obtained the doctoral degree with the research project The Variational Mode. Th...
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Leiden Humanities graduates more likely to find graduate-level job 03 September 2020
Our humanities graduates are doing well: 70% of our bachelor’s and master’s students find their first job within two months of graduation. And for 83%...
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International Studies students receive their diploma 28 August 2020
Organised in four separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, a total of 260 students r...
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Leading international politics site publishes article of student Aileen Schuurmans 18 August 2020
Aileen Schuurmans finished her MA International Relations this summer. She wrote an article titled 'How to Change the Story of the Pandemic with Daois...