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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library15 February 2022With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted ba...
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Opposing the French participle clause10 February 2022The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perha...
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam07 February 2022‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University03 February 2022The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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Markus Davidsen wins 2021 Impact Prize24 January 2022Markus Davidsen, assistant professor of Religious Studies, is the winner of the 2021 Impact Prize. He is receiving the prize of 1,000 euros for the ma...
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"Storia de Nhas Pais" interviews’ collection officially handed over to Rotterdam City Archive07 January 2022
A collection of interviews from the oral history project "Storia de Nhas Pais" ("Story of my Parents") was handed over to the Rotterdam City Archive o...
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Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network created10 December 2021Last week, the 'Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network' was created, based on the network event 'Leiden Anthropology of and in Asia' on 8 December 2021. ...
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Professional female footballers have to play like a man06 December 2021Women’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 education29 November 2021Two 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 Holocaust26 November 2021In 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 grant26 November 2021The 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 process23 November 2021With 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 Leiden202212 November 2021With 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 2021Holocaust 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 Indonesia09 November 2021The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...