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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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Leiden University receives Prime Minister's Award from Korea for Korea Studies program04 December 2023Ambassador Hyoung Chan Choe of South Korea paid his first visit to Leiden University Nov. 22, where he was received by President Annetje Ottow and Pro...
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'01 December 2023In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own v...
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KNAW Early Career Awards for two Leiden researchers21 November 2023Young Leiden researchers Alisa van de Haar and Marleen Kunneman have received a KNAW Early Career Award. The prize, awarded annually for outstanding a...
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Call for nominations Jewish Studies Thesis Prize 202309 November 2023
The Leiden Jewish Studies Association is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" produced at Leiden Univers...
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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023The winners are Marta Bielinska and Caspar Jacobs for their paper “A Philosophical Introduction to Hidden Symmetries in Physics.” 08 November 2023The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer30 October 2023A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant t...
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'23 October 2023When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks universi...
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A meaningful view of diversity? You'll find it in art20 October 2023What does it mean to be a migrant in a big city? According to assistant professor Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, artists have the answer to that question...
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Silence as a form of activism: 'It is precisely by being silent that you sometimes keep the conversation open'20 October 2023We talk too little about silence, thinks university lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven. He has been awarded a Veni grant to investigate the role of sile...
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Professor bids farewell with roadshow in Indonesia: 'One big celebration of recognition'12 October 2023Whereas most outgoing professors are offered a congress, Nico Kaptein's former students and PhD students took a bigger approach. They treated him not ...
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Database full of 3D models: 'Maybe it will help us deal with restitution more inclusively'09 October 2023Scientists' computers are now full of complicated 3D models, but no standard has yet been developed for exchanging the data. A new database should cha...
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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 202315 September 2023Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation12 September 2023Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foun...
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us'11 September 2023Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive ...