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North Korea: Disentangling a Gordian knot 21 March 2018
The announcement by US President Donald Trump on 9 March in response to the invitation for a summit meeting with the North Korean supreme leader Kim J...
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‘Do the Russians want to participate in the electoral performance?’ 15 March 2018
Although it is already certain that Vladimir Putin will win the Russian presidential election on 18 March, it is still significant for him, argues Rus...
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Rutte in Leiden: ‘Only studying is such a waste of opportunity’ 15 March 2018
From political confessions to life lessons from his own student time. On 14 March, Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave candid answers to questions from Lei...
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'Stephen Hawking put abstract science on the map' 14 March 2018
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (76) passed away on 14 March at his home in Cambridge, having been a long-term sufferer of the muscular disease ...
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Jet Bussemaker: ‘Emotions always run high in discussions on female emancipation' 08 March 2018
At the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on 8 March, former Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker expressed her surprise at the commotion again raised by ...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students 06 March 2018
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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The Leiden Connection - screenwriter Gerard Soeteman looks back 14 February 2018
Gerard Soeteman (1936) created a furore as a screenwriter of films that became classics (Dutch films: Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje, de Aanslag), bu...
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Why both fascists and liberals idolise Nietzsche 13 February 2018
The doctrine of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is complex, contradictory and open to a range of different interpretations. As a result, his le...
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Beyond The Last Utopia? A Student Blog Series About the History of Human Rights 06 February 2018
As a result of the MA-course History of Human Rights, dr. Paul van Trigt and students who participated in the course wrote a series of blogs concernin...
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Dutch ships built by North Koreans in Polish shipyards 06 February 2018
North Korean labourers are still being forced to work in the European Union. According to researchers, including Professor of Korean Studies Remco Bre...
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Florian Schneider on the success of his 'role-playing' teaching 26 January 2018
Sinologist Florian Schneider was awarded the LUS Teaching Prize, officially making him this year’s best Leiden University lecturer. Schneider was comm...
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Remco Breuker on North Korea: ‘We have actually run out of time’ 19 January 2018
Since it was announced that North Korean President Kim Jong-un is ready to launch an intercontinental nuclear missile, fear of a nuclear war is growin...
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Got an old mobile left over? Play the Funky Phone Challenge! 16 January 2018
Have you got an old mobile phone lying around? If so, you can hand it in at Funky Phone in Lipsius. The phone will be recycled and you get to play an ...
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Propaganda Art- From the 20th to the 21st Century 12 January 2018
On January 25th, artist Jonas Staal will defend his dissertation which explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.
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Slavery Reparations: The difficult flowering of an unconstructive demand 14 December 2017
On the 13th of December 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo came to Leiden to discuss the long history of the demand for reparations for slavery. In the basement of...