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Professional female footballers have to play like a man 06 December 2021
Women’s football is steadily gaining attention. It’s as though the sport is becoming emancipated. And yet in conversations with professional female fo...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education 29 November 2021
Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust 26 November 2021
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant 26 November 2021
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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New LeidenGlobal activities for Leiden2022 12 November 2021
With Leiden2022 drawing nearer, LeidenGlobal is busy developing extra activities to demonstrate the knowledge that is present in Leiden and to create ...
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’ 11 November 2021
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Pol...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia 09 November 2021
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...
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Students create creative language lessons for primary and secondary education: ‘Not enough attention paid to languages’ 08 November 2021
The earlier you introduce children to a language, the sooner they can be captivated by it and see that there is more than just Dutch and English. That...
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Humanities as the heart of Leiden in 2022: get to know the team 28 October 2021
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. During this year, Leiden will be the European stage for knowledge, with a programme filled with ...
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction 27 October 2021
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...
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Writing history together in the Transvaal 18 October 2021
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture 12 October 2021
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust ...
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Tsolin Nalbantian receives Comenius grant: 'We must bridge the gap between education and society' 02 August 2021
In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, ...
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems 16 July 2021
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scrip...