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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 crime10 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 challenges10 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 video07 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...
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Teachers share tips and tricks at the Education Showcase06 July 2023But how do you do it? At the annual Education Showcase, lecturers at the Faculty of Humanities could talk to their colleagues about teaching methods a...
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers06 July 2023Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch R...
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Photo impression of conference on the Good Friday Agreement06 July 2023On 25 May, Schouwburgstraat hosted an conference on the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. This event brought together a panel of speakers...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 202304 July 2023Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery04 July 2023In a speech on Keti Koti (meaning ‘the chain is broken’ and the name given to 1 July, the day marking the abolition of slavery) the Dutch king, Willem...
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language03 July 2023Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach u...
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship30 June 2023If 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 LUF28 June 2023The 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 lecturers27 June 2023Two 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 I26 June 2023Showing 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...