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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund28 February 2023
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities20 February 2023
Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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Dr Carwyn Morris awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant03 February 2023
Dr Carwyn Morris (LIAS) was awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant, as part of an international consortium with 19 colleagues.
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’31 January 2023
With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers31 January 2023
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war23 January 2023
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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What is there to do at Leiden University in 2023? Six events to look forward to20 January 2023
From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts all manner of events every year. To make sure these events ge...
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective13 January 2023
From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in ...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the newsThe year in the blink of the eye 22 December 2022
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-d...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’22 December 2022
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...