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Beyond The Last Utopia? A Student Blog Series About the History of Human Rights06 February 2018As 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 shipyards06 February 2018North 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' teaching26 January 2018Sinologist 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 2018Since 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 2018Have 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 Century12 January 2018On 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 demand14 December 2017On 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...
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‘Japan and Leiden aren’t so far apart after all’04 December 2017A delegation from Leiden University visited Japan from 18 to 26 November to facilitate cooperation in research and teaching. The delegation also atten...
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LERU universities generated 100 billion euros for the European economy01 December 2017In 2016, the 23 members of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) generated a collective economic value of €99.8 billion in Gross Value A...
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Monika Baár part of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Scheme29 November 2017Monika Baár is among the 17 scientists who have been invited to participate in the 6th edition of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Sche...
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From Leiden to Tokyo: Cleveringa around the world28 November 2017On or around 26 November every year, Cleveringa meetings are organised for Leiden alumni throughout the world. Including in Tokyo, where Professor of ...
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Academics and lecturers develop teaching material on Islam21 November 2017A number of different course curricula were presented at a training conference on ‘Islam in the Class’ op 17 November. The course materials were devel...
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Lisette Atsma: how a Korean and Asian Studies alumna became an ICT specialist20 November 2017She studied Korean and Asian Studies and, four years after graduating, is now working as a specialist for an ICT secondment company. This is the story...
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Two different approaches at the Diversity symposium14 November 2017One of the speakers at the Diversity symposium on 22 November is Estela Mara Bensimon, highly honoured professor of Higher Education in the US. A seco...
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Call for papers: Modalities of Displacement in South Asia07 November 2017‘Displacement’ has emerged as a keyword in studies of South Asia, across research in historical, anthropological, geographical, and cultural studies. ...