News
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Botany: a love you can’t force 22 May 2023
Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters talks about how people treat plants in general and weeds in particular.
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New Humanities Living Room focuses on 'feeling at home' 18 May 2023
Playing a game, picking a cutting for your room or just having a cup of coffee: it is all possible in the new Humanities Living Room in the Matthias d...
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Music and Words: The Austria Centre, the Practicum Musicae Orkest and Grensverleggend/Crossing Borders 17 May 2023
On Sunday, April 23, 2023, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey, Special Chair for Central European Studies, gave a special lecture alongside the Practicum Musicae...
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000 17 May 2023
On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Gl...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023
It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron 16 May 2023
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Pol...
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What influence did French really have on Dutch? 15 May 2023
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch....
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Test expert Coen van 't Veer: 'The Dutch final exam is a good measuring tool' 15 May 2023
Not passed your Dutch exam? Then there’s no HAVO (Higher General Secondary) or VWO (pre-university) diploma for you, says the Inspectorate of Educatio...
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Treating military matters as military science - a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day 12 May 2023
Recently, Engin Yüksel gave a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day and his observations on the Russo-Ukrainian war at the...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’ 11 May 2023
What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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International Relations’ alumni-student event: ‘Quality over quantity’ and other alumni advice for the job application process 10 May 2023
Practical advice, a panel discussion, and an informal networking reception: students and alumni from the MA International Relations can look back on y...
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What is news? 'Stories about current events create a sense of belonging' 10 May 2023
For ten months, PhD student Sanne Rotmeijer worked on the editorial boards of various news media on Curaçao and Sint Maarten. She also tracked how new...
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Philosophising by making films: ‘I’ve never understood the material so well before.’ 10 May 2023
There was a time when student Lelani Antar wanted to go to film school. She ended up studying International Studies, yet she didn’t quite say goodbye ...
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Summer full of summer schools at Humanities 09 May 2023
This summer, the Faculty of Humanities is once again offering a wide range of summer schools for staff and students. From acting to Indian linguistics...