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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy29 February 2024Western civil servants openly struggle at times with their own government’s policies on the war in Gaza. In protest, civil servants in various countri...
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages'29 February 2024On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother La...
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation20 February 2024How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy01 February 2024Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
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Old/New Histories that Continue to Matter: M.A. History Students use Leiden Austria Centre programming as they study the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe30 January 2024Nearly eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, we continue to learn more about how the Holocaust “happened” in central and eastern Europe. In...
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art23 January 2024The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Kors...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'18 January 2024A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news20 December 2023So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also ...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’12 December 2023What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’11 December 2023Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa06 November 2023Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African cont...
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175 years of the Constitution: ‘Its dryness makes it a success'03 November 2023175 years ago, the Netherlands took great strides towards parliamentary democracy with a revamped Constitution. Where does the Constitution stand today?