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Simona Vezzoli: ‘By working together, Leiden, Delft and Erasmus researchers can generate innovative research’28 September 2020Simona 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 voices28 September 2020For 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 2020At 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 2020Leiden 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 Leiden07 September 2020Maarten 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 employers31 August 2020The 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 perspective24 August 2020Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...
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Robert Zwijnenberg: ‘Don’t just talk but dare to get your hands dirty’21 July 2020Rob Zwijnenberg, Professor of Art and Science Interactions, uses daring experiments to get his students to think about social issues. "People who I in...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research15 July 2020Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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'Migration and integration policies for the future only work with knowledge from the past.'06 July 2020An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’03 July 2020Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...
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Looking for a job with impact – Check the webinar!29 June 2020Marliese Vollebregt (BA International Studies, MA International Relations) works at JINC, a Dutch NGO focusing on equal opportunities for children. Af...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’05 June 2020It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’04 June 2020The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer28 May 2020FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enab...