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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation 12 September 2023
Carla 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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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers 05 September 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their resear...
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LeidenGlobal seminar series on interdisciplinarity offers a “license to creativity” 05 September 2023
In September, the LeidenGobal seminar series ‘Beyond Discipline and Place in the Social Science and Humanities’ will kick off. The series, targeted at...
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit' 01 September 2023
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’ 30 August 2023
Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the F...
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As old as the road to Rome: 'Fake news was already to be found in ancient times' 21 August 2023
Fake news a new phenomenon? Not according to Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan. In an NWO project, the associate professor and PhD student will delve i...
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023
A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...
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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed 01 August 2023
Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do tha...
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PhD candidates exchange experiences at small-scale summer school 01 August 2023
Excursions to Leiden museums, a flown-in American professor and a collaboration with PhD students from Cambridge: Leiden PhD candidates in early moder...
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Young researchers looking for partnerships in Indonesia 17 July 2023
A number of young researchers recently took part in a knowledge mission to Indonesia, aiming to build a lasting relationship with the country. How did...
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda 13 July 2023
In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry ma...
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Video: positive feedback on Leiden conference on global challenges 10 July 2023
Eighty academic papers, 270 participants and four roundtables on dealing with global challenges. The second conference of the interdisciplinary resear...
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language 03 July 2023
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach u...
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship 30 June 2023
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer A...
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Chair for Central European Studies finds new home at LUF 28 June 2023
The Austrian Studies Fund was established with a festive gathering in the Faculty Club on Friday afternoon, 23 June. This fund is the successor of the...