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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’19 April 2022To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden...
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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’14 April 2022On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the...
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!13 April 2022On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant11 April 2022Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens07 April 2022A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn...
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Ten lessons on making an impact: ‘What dilemmas will you face?’04 April 2022In the booklet ‘Research with Windows Wide Open’, eight professors in the social sciences and humanities advise colleagues who want to make an impact ...
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare29 March 2022The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s s...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia21 March 2022Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’18 March 2022How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers17 March 2022Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'10 March 2022During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science07 March 2022What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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Streaming the Sagas: a live role play in the North-European Age of Heroes21 February 2022Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing ag...
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards17 February 2022Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independe...
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A quick call about Ukraine: 'Putin wants to be taken seriously'15 February 2022Suddenly there they were, the Russian soldiers near the border of Ukraine. Since then, reports of tensions between Russia on the one hand and the Unit...