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Documentation of International Symposium What Methods Do 28 June 2024
The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination...
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Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems 27 June 2024
The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes ...
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’ 25 June 2024
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except ...
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Out now! LEAP # 4: Subject: Matter 21 June 2024
The editorial board of the Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) is proud to announce the release of the fourth edition, titled “Subject: Matter”!
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means 20 June 2024
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does i...
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New interview series PARC: composer and sound artist Siamak Anvari 18 June 2024
Siamak Anvari (Tehran, 1981) is a composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. Three weeks prior to his PhD defence on 25 June and the presenta...
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Rubicon awarded to neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad 18 June 2024
Neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad has been awarded a Rubicon grant to conduct research on cortical and allelic determinants of age-related cognitiv...
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Sharing insights about paths and careers as philosophy graduates 18 June 2024
Last month, Symposion, the study association for Philosophy students, organised this year's student-alumni career event. Four alumni joined the event ...
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How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust 17 June 2024
To cover up their deportation plans which targeted Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis re-opened schools. In her inaugural lecture, historian ...
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CFP Monotheisms in the Medieval Islamic Thought 17 June 2024
The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH) is hosting a two-day in-person conference on the topic of monotheism in medieval...
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Three questions for the student psychologist 17 June 2024
With the final weeks of the year in full swing, many students are experiencing stress. This is where a chat with the student psychologist can bring so...
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New milestone for the Humanities Campus 17 June 2024
The development of the Humanities Campus is entering a new phase. On 13 June, the Municipal Council approved both the zoning plan and the visual quali...
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Naomi Rebekka Boekwijt: ‘This novel is a plea for human assistance’ 17 June 2024
Philosophy alumna Naomi Rebekka Boekwijt returns to Leiden University on 20 June to present her latest novel Stemmen (Voices) in Plexus. ‘I wanted to ...
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Kate Bellamy: ‘Exciting to put P'urhepecha community in touch with written heritage’ 13 June 2024
Many members of Chicago's P'urhepecha community did not even know they lived a stone’s throw from some of their own historical heritage. Researcher Ka...
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers 11 June 2024
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project withi...