News
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We can no longer look at the world as ‘the West and the rest’ 06 November 2020
Art historian and professor Kitty Zijlmans is on a mission: she wants to get rid of the notion that the West dominates the art world. To no longer put...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of language 26 October 2020
On 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’ 26 October 2020
Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!
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Urgent research projects funded by LUF 21 October 2020
Misleading graphs, the erosion of democracy and the weakening of bones as a side-effect of medication. Researchers are starting work on these very top...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity 15 October 2020
The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Blogging about the Middle Ages: love magic, face masks and video games 13 October 2020
Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about ...
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University 13 October 2020
Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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‘Working together on the basis of mutual respect is enriching and satisfying’ 29 September 2020
Since 2017 guest researcher Gerrit de Wit has been working together with Congolese linguists and the Boa community to develop the oral Boa language in...
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Simona Vezzoli: ‘By working together, Leiden, Delft and Erasmus researchers can generate innovative research’ 28 September 2020
Simona Vezzoli is one of two research officers at the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Research Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity. Based at the Lei...
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Nadine Akkerman uncovers hidden British voices 28 September 2020
For the next five years, thanks to a highly competitive European grant, Nadine Akkerman will be able to focus on voices from the past that might other...
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands? 17 September 2020
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. W...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030? 07 September 2020
Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden 07 September 2020
Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University, looks back on the 50th edition of the Colloquium of African Languages and Linguis...
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Student consultancy programme PRINS of great value to employers 31 August 2020
The university’s largest consultancy programme, International Studies’ PRINS, has been connecting international employers with humanities students for...
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Pilgrim conference: high time for an indigenous and more diverse perspective 24 August 2020
Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...