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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’ 21 November 2024If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days' 19 November 2024It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Nivja de Jong listed among 2% most influential scientists 14 November 2024Professor Nivja de Jong has been included in the list of most influential scientists by Elsevier Data Repository. This list of scientists with the hig...
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Professor of Dutch History Henk te Velde to be new interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 12 November 2024Professor of Dutch History prof.dr. H. (Henk) te Velde will become interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University for a two-year term ...
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Faculty Board Column: Looking Ahead Together in Challenging Times 11 November 2024To underline the urgency: Our faculty faces a significant financial challenge. With a structural reduction of €5 to €6 million in annual income, dark ...
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First experiences with digital testing platform Ans 11 November 2024In the second semester of this academic year (February 2025), the Faculty of the Humanities will switch to Ans for digital exams. Several lecturers ha...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: September 2024 07 November 2024When I posted the post below on the LUCSoR Twitter account a few months ago, I didn’t fully realise how aspirational that final sentence would be: ‘ra...
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Law track launched for master's in Governance of Migration and Diversity 07 November 2024The master's programme in Governance of Migration and Diversity has expanded to include a Law track (LL.M.). Law students can now enrol in this master...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague 04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’ 04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize 04 November 2024Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...
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Claudia Robustella: 'I've learned to accept myself and my mental health issues' 04 November 2024During her student years, Claudia Robustella struggled with her mental health. Thanks in part to the help of her study coordinator Rosa van Straten, s...
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Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture 30 October 2024What does forced migration have to do with the way a humanist aesthetics was forged after World War II? A Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' 28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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‘American politics gives Europeans a glimpse of what lies ahead’ 24 October 2024It’s impossible to avoid, even in the Netherlands: the US will soon be going to the polls. Where does it come from, this fascination with US elections...