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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world 11 August 2023Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (X...
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers 03 August 2023Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards off...
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...
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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed 01 August 2023Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do tha...
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PhD candidates exchange experiences at small-scale summer school 01 August 2023Excursions to Leiden museums, a flown-in American professor and a collaboration with PhD students from Cambridge: Leiden PhD candidates in early moder...
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Book presentation 'Coping with Versnel' 26 July 2023At a festive book presentation on the 21st of July in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities Leiden professor emeritus Henk Versnel received a copy ...
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Launch D&I Calendar 2023-2024 21 July 2023The Faculty of Humanities is proud to launch its new D&I Calendar for the academic year 2023-2024. This calendar is an effort to build awareness and c...
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On the road with museum lover Jelte Liemburg: ‘I finally got to hold a mammoth tooth’ 20 July 2023Former student of history at Leiden Jelte Liemburg, aged 29, has set himself the unusual challenge of visiting every single one of the 500 museums in ...
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Young researchers looking for partnerships in Indonesia 17 July 2023A number of young researchers recently took part in a knowledge mission to Indonesia, aiming to build a lasting relationship with the country. How did...
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda 13 July 2023In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry ma...
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Dutch state returns stolen artefacts: ‘Make sure to tell the full story’ 11 July 2023The Netherlands returned 478 artefacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka this week, on the advice of a Dutch committee. Rightly so, says Leiden professor Pie...
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From International Relations to combatting financial crime 10 July 2023Vivian Ng came back to Leiden last June to finally sign the walls of the Sweat Room. Graduated in 2020 during the pandemic, she missed out on this won...
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Video: positive feedback on Leiden conference on global challenges 10 July 2023Eighty academic papers, 270 participants and four roundtables on dealing with global challenges. The second conference of the interdisciplinary resear...
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Check out the new International Studies alumni video 07 July 2023What are International Studies Alumni doing after graduation? Get to know Guido, Paulien and Lennart. They all studied International Studies at Leiden...
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PRINS is back again: ‘I am proud of what we have achieved’ 06 July 2023After twenty weeks of hard work, third-year students of International Studies wrapped up the ‘Practising International Studies’ (PRINS) consultancy co...