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Leiden victims of WWII given a face21 November 2017Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, s...
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Cleveringa lecture to focus on Jewish Professor Meijers28 September 2017Historian Marjan Schwegman is the new Cleveringa Professor. Her lecture on 27 November will focus on Eduard Meijers, the Jewish professor who was dism...
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How Leiden University reopened after the war01 May 2017Students were able to continue their studies in September 1945 after the University had been closed for several years during the Second World War. Thi...
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Student in war time20 April 2017Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. H...
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Doctors and citizens under fire in conflict zones25 November 2016It is time for the international community to put a stop to war crimes – especially against medical personnel, argued international chair of Doctors W...
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Cleveringa professor Joanne Liu to give extra lecture25 October 2016Cleveringa professor Joanne Liu, international president of Artsen Zonder Grenzen, will give an extra lecture on 24 November. The subject will be how ...
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Doctor Joanne Liu to be new Cleveringa lecturer22 August 2016
Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, is the Cleveringa professor for the 2016-2017 academic year. She will deliver the ann...
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How Sir Winston Churchill became a Leiden Honorary Doctor09 May 2016Leiden University awarded Sir Winston Churchill on 10 May 1946 an Honorary Doctorate in Law. Churchill's speech of thanks showed typical British humou...
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Field of honour full of life05 April 2016The four thousand war victims buried at the Netherlands Field of Honour at Loenen include a number of Leiden students who were in the Resistance. The ...
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Donner warns against a weak European Union26 November 2015The refugee crisis and terror threats call for better European cooperation, was the message from Piet Hein Donner in his Cleveringa lecture on 26 Nove...
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Cleveringa lecture: ‘Values under threat from disintegrating European collaboration’17 November 2015
Collaboration within Europe is currently at a low ebb. This is threatening to undermine our freedom and the rights that are anchored in the European l...
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Four short films about four centuries of freedom at Leiden University04 November 2015
Four videos tell the story of the history of Leiden University. The films were premiered on 2 November during the Leiden Film Festival.
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Hetty Cohen-Koster was present at Cleveringa’s speech30 April 2015
'I belong here.' This is what the young Jewish law student Hetty Koster felt when she attended the memorable protest speech given by Professor Cleveri...
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Devouring movies and novels for Cleveringa course17 February 2015
World War II is never over for those who have lived through it. This is the conclusion of Cleveringa Professor Carol Gluck and her students after read...
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Thomas Bäck holds Cleveringa lecture in Calgary, Canada16 January 2015On 26 November 2014 Prof. Dr. Thomas Bäck gives the Cleveringa lecture at the University of Calgary in Canada entitled: Innovation: Can we use princip...