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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork 24 January 2020
Descriptions of different languages help us understand what speakers of different languages share worldwide. At the same time, having descriptions of ...
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Orpheus Instituut acquires prestigious library Ton Koopman 23 January 2020
The Orpheus Instituut acquires the prestigious library of Ton Koopman. The focus of the collection is 17th- and 18th-century music, its cultural conte...
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Colonisation and migration in New-America 16 January 2020
Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) 13 January 2020
Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views 09 January 2020
The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Jeroen Touwen new Vice-Dean of Humanities 06 January 2020
Jeroen Touwen has been appointed Vice-Dean and portfolio holder for bachelor’s programmes at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 January 2020...
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LeidenGlobal course for Research Master's students and PhD candidates 17 December 2019
LeidenGlobal course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students 09 December 2019
Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019 06 December 2019
The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in t...
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New elective in practical rhetoric 02 December 2019
In February 2020 Jed Wentz will start the new course 'Practical Rhetoric: public speaking according to historical sources'. Registration is now open!
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Four top courses for Humanities 27 November 2019
Four bachelor courses are rewarded as Top courses.
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’? 25 November 2019
Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong 15 November 2019
Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Being a part of the network of Leiden graduates across the world 01 November 2019
The students of European Union Studies visited Brussels this October, and it was another successful and worthwhile trip for those students in the MA I...
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Commissie-Van der Staaij presenteert revisie Reglement van Orde 31 October 2019
Op 30 oktober presenteerde de Commissie tot Revisie van het Reglement van Orde, onder voorzitterschap van Kees van der Staaij (SGP), haar bevindingen ...