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New academic student magazine kicks off with double issue: 'Had so many good submissions'31 August 2023A year ago, assistant professor Paz Gonzalez received a Comenius grant to start an academic journal for and by students. Now the first double issue of...
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’30 August 2023Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the F...
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Director of Operations Saskia Goedhard: 'Nice that the faculty is such a complex organisation'29 August 2023Saskia Goedhard was previously director of operations at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the UvA. Since April, she has brought her expertise to the F...
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Leiden Teaching Prize nominee 2023: ‘Every lesson somebody says something I never thought of’28 August 2023Two years ago, university lecturer Kirsty Rolfe was nominated for the Faculty Teaching Prize. Now she is in the running for the university equivalent....
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From child to artist: something for everyone during Days of Arts and Science28 August 2023From 11 to 17 September, Leiden will be all about art and science. What can the combination of these two domains do for us? And how can cooperation be...
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As old as the road to Rome: 'Fake news was already to be found in ancient times'21 August 2023Fake news a new phenomenon? Not according to Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan. In an NWO project, the associate professor and PhD student will delve i...
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world11 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 researchers03 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 Niger02 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 completed01 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 school01 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 2023-202421 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 Indonesia17 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...