News
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship 30 June 2023
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer A...
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Chair for Central European Studies finds new home at LUF 28 June 2023
The Austrian Studies Fund was established with a festive gathering in the Faculty Club on Friday afternoon, 23 June. This fund is the successor of the...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023
Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Dancing around the throne: networking in the time of King William I 26 June 2023
Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time. Joost Welten's latest book reveals h...
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Out now! LEAP # 3: Sense(s) 23 June 2023
The editorial board of the Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) is proud to announce the release of the third edition , titled “Sense(s)”!
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Browsing Chinese policy documents with AI: 'There is more public than you might think' 23 June 2023
Corona travel restrictions and increased political pressure: research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years. University le...
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Students go on virtual exchange to Virginia: 'This is the most fun programme there is' 22 June 2023
University lecturer Dario Fazzi and postdoctoral researcher Gaetano Di Tommaso set up a virtual collaboration with the United States last year thanks ...
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The choice is yours! Three introduction weeks for Leiden University students 20 June 2023
Leiden or The Hague? Dutch or English? These two questions decide which introduction week new Leiden University students should choose: EL CID, HOP or...
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students 15 June 2023
Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming research...
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’ 13 June 2023
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to ...
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Leiden's Austria Centre traveled to Berkeley, California for the Annual Convention of Austria Centers 13 June 2023
The fifteenth Annual Convention of Austria Centers took place in Berkeley, California, USA in May 2023. There, colleagues gathered from around the wor...
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations 12 June 2023
Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording...
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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference 12 June 2023
Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research pr...
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The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed 08 June 2023
Karwan Fatah-Black and Lauren Lauret are co-authors of Geketend voor Hollands Glorie (The Chains of Holland’s Glory) that studies the political and ec...
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An inside view from the International Relations MA 06 June 2023
'After my BA International Studies I decided to do the MA International Relations, and that proved to be a good choice,' Mats Radeck (23, Trier, Germa...