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Tim Meijers receives a Veni for research into obligations to future generations 23 July 2019
What do we owe to future generations? And how do we fairly share the costs of complying with these obligations , knowing that the world is full of ine...
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Course helps primary-school teachers with Islam-related dilemmas 22 July 2019
Primary-school teachers who aren’t Muslim themselves but do have Muslim children in their class sometimes face dilemmas and cultural or religious diff...
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities 17 July 2019
No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...
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The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy 04 July 2019
To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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From (no) sex in Japan to environmental policy: ICAS 11 is coming to town 26 June 2019
The walls of Paul van der Velde’s study at the International Institute for Asian Studies are full of neat rows of post-it notes. As organiser in chief...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future 19 June 2019
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Member of Parliament Tielen (VVD) visits the Faculty of Humanities 03 June 2019
Asia, Asia, Asia. That was what the working visit of VVD Member of Parliament Judith Tielen - at her request - was all about. In a two hour long progr...
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'It is important to have discussions about topics that not everybody agrees on' 29 May 2019
Today Mikhail Khordorkovsky visits the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time ...
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Refugees build a new future in Leiden 27 May 2019
Solafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leid...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at Museon 23 May 2019
The international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Timeline Humanities: 444 years back in time 21 May 2019
What better place to look back at 444 years of Leiden University than at the faculty where we actually study our history? To celebrate this special ye...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’ 16 May 2019
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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New Rembrandt Route takes in seven Leiden University buildings 13 May 2019
Seven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...
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Dunsa Masterclass – Right Wing Austrian Politics of Kurz 01 May 2019
On 15 April 2019 upon the invitation of SIB-Amsterdam- Dutch United Nations Student Association Monika Baár gave a masterclass on the contemporary pol...