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Master’s Open Day at the Faculty of Humanities18 March 2019On Friday 15 March, more than 750 students from the Netherlands and abroad visited the Master’s Open Day at the Faculty of Humanities to explore their...
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View the Humanities Master’s Open Day presentations15 March 2019Many thanks for visiting the Master’s Open Day on Friday 15 March! We hope that you enjoyed the day and that all your questions were answered.
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Studying abroad: Erik and Donna are doing an internship in Uganda04 March 2019Erik van der Zanden and Donna de Weijer, both MA African Studies students, traveled all the way to Uganda’s capital Kampala in order to start their in...
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Giles Scott-Smith appointed Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History04 March 2019The Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History is sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, and the new position ...
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Meet our spring fellow: Christian Müller01 March 2019LUCIS is happy to welcome Christian Müller to Leiden from mid-April to mid-May.
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A New Network for Queer History at Leiden25 February 2019Ann Marie Wilson and Andrew DJ Shield have been recently awarded a Leiden Global Interactions SEED grant to support the launch of a new platform for s...
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Record number of visitors to Bachelor's Open Day: ‘My mum misses me already’25 February 2019What can you expect from studying in Leiden or The Hague? Which programme should you choose? Should you join a student association and will you need t...
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A real professor in front of the class08 February 2019A lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...
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A world without American domination?07 February 2019America’s dominance of the world stage is coming to an end. These were the words of Professor Amitav Acharya in his guest lecture in The Hague on 5 Fe...
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This August: summer school Philology & Manuscripts from the Muslim World16 January 2019In August 2019, LUCIS will again organise a summer school on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world. Are you interested in handwritten materi...
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Andrew Gawthorpe wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 201809 January 2019At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded.
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World29 November 2018Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle ...
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 201828 November 2018Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for ...
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Bachelor Religious Studies top program according to 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2019'23 November 2018The bachelor program Religious Studies has, besides also Linguistics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, been awarded by the 'Keuzevakkengids Universite...
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Keuzegids recommends three ‘top study programmes’ at Leiden University15 November 2018The Leiden bachelor’s programmes in Linguistics, Religious Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies have received the accolade of ‘top study programme...