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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’16 December 2020Controversial 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 2020Alumna 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 2020Composer, 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 2020Alumnus 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 2020Having 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 2020The 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 2020At 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 See15 September 2020Chiara 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 grant04 September 2020In 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 job03 September 2020Our 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 diploma28 August 2020Organised 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 Schuurmans18 August 2020Aileen Schuurmans finished her MA International Relations this summer. She wrote an article titled 'How to Change the Story of the Pandemic with Daois...
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Online reunion: five years of BAIS Alumni18 August 2020Recently, the BAIS Alumni Association organised their yearly reunion. Due to the current circumstances, there was a twist: the reunion – as many event...
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'28 July 2020The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of ...
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Alumna Akke de Hoog: ‘My work is teaching me how to think in terms of opportunities’10 July 2020Akke de Hoog (26) helps asylum seekers whose application has been rejected to plan their future and voluntary return to their country of origin. Her m...