News
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Kim Beerden: 'The programme accreditation was good for the team spirit.' 22 October 2020
Accreditations. All study programmes have to deal with them and once every six years they cause a good amount of tension. How do you survive the asses...
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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity 15 October 2020
The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Blogging about the Middle Ages: love magic, face masks and video games 13 October 2020
Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about ...
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William Michael Schmidli: ‘Regardless of the vote count, Trump will not leave the White House easily’ 08 October 2020
With only a month until the 2020 United States elections, William Michael Schmidli, University Lecturer of American history, reflects on the latest de...
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The Dutch Revolt through Italian eyes 01 October 2020
Italian historiographers in the 16th and 17th centuries wrote remarkably often about the Dutch Revolt, better known as the Eighty Years' War (1568-164...
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The United Nations at 75: what are the challenges for the future? 25 September 2020
The United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. With the corona crisis and rising nationalism, there’s not much cause for celebration. W...
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Pilgrim conference: high time for an indigenous and more diverse perspective 24 August 2020
Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...
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‘The Rooseveltian Century’: one of the best MOOCs according to New York Magazine 11 August 2020
According to New York Magazine, the massive open online course (MOOC) ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ by Professor by Special Appointment Giles Scott-Smith...
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Funding for three new Humanities’ PhD candidates 04 August 2020
Three new PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will receive funding from the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and NWO. The aim of the gr...
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‘Lectures with the teacher talking for 90 minutes are completely outdated’ 16 July 2020
Historian Robert Stein is a lecturer in Medieval History. He was recently awarded the Senior Teaching Qualification. What did he learn from the STQ tr...
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The enemy is brutal and violent. How do you put a human face on them? 13 July 2020
Raymond Fagel, university lecturer in General History, wrote a book about his research on Spanish commander Mondragón. He spared Zierikzee during the ...
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Alumna Akke de Hoog: ‘My work is teaching me how to think in terms of opportunities’ 10 July 2020
Akke de Hoog (26) helps asylum seekers whose application has been rejected to plan their future and voluntary return to their country of origin. Her m...
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'Migration and integration policies for the future only work with knowledge from the past.' 06 July 2020
An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...
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Honorable Mention for PhD Candidate Sam de Schutter 30 June 2020
Sam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.
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The life of nomads in turbulent times 25 June 2020
In recent years, the Walad Djifir from Chad found themselves in a turbulent environment due to the unrest in Nigeria, Libya and the Central African Re...