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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’450 jaar 11 February 2025Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
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Step by Step to the Future: A Conversation Between Two Deans10 February 2025As one prepares for the final sprint, the other stands ready at the starting blocks: in just a few weeks, Dean Mark Rutgers will pass the baton to his...
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Sjef Barbiers new Managing Director of INT10 February 2025Professor Sjef Barbiers will be appointed Managing Director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) with effect from 1 September 2025. He will s...
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Call for Papers: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-185007 February 2025
Keynote speakers: Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo SUNY) and Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
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Sharing Digital Humanities Knowledge07 February 2025If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around,...
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’06 February 2025The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were in...
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New podcasts on Islam in South and Southeast Asia05 February 2025
As part of the final project for the Islam in South and Southeast Asia course (taught by Dr Verena Meyer), students were tasked with creating podcasts...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: February 202505 February 2025By the time you read this message, it will already be February. But since this is our first newsletter of the year, I still feel compelled to wish all...
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’03 February 2025If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. T...
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language31 January 2025In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. A...
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’28 January 2025Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said ...
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Prof. Eva Pfanzelter joins Leiden as the Visiting Professor in Central European Studies at Leiden27 January 2025For the spring semester 2025, the Austria Centre Leiden and the Institute History are excited to welcome Prof. Eva Pfanzelter to Leiden for her term a...
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New album by Gabriel Paiuk27 January 2025ACPA alumnus Gabriel Paiuk is releasing a new album, titled Degrees of Transparency, on the Unsounds label.
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Call for abstracts Symposium: "Absence as artistic strategy in contemporary art" , 11 June 202527 January 2025The symposium will be held on 11 June 2025 from 10.00-17.00 and is organized as a starting point for the publication of an edited volume – a selection...
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Bringing aid to Ukraine: ‘Now others were also benefitting from my studies’Person of the Year nominee 23 January 2025Russian Studies master’s student Fien Lurvink was nominated as Leidsch Dagblad’s Person of the Year for her charity work as chair of the Keep Them War...