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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy 17 January 2024
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy 16 January 2024
Leiden 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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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' 15 January 2024
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings 11 January 2024
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript f...
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers 08 January 2024
What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture on 12 January, Professor Mariken Teeuwen talked about the texts they...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines 03 January 2024
Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023 19 December 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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The battle over marriage in Indonesia 13 December 2023
The Indonesian government has been trying to enforce marriage and divorce laws for some time. These efforts are encountering resistance from both loca...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’ 12 December 2023
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most 11 December 2023
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult...
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LCCP Research Seminar Program Spring 2024 06 December 2023
The seminar is dedicated to the research and work in progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcome...
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes 05 December 2023
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet. PhD candid...
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life 05 December 2023
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren o...
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Dubai climate summit: 'Virtually all funds are underfunded' 30 November 2023
Dubai is teeming with world leaders these days at the United Nations' annual climate conference. What can we expect? We look ahead with university lec...