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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geologyExhibition at Oude UB 05 February 2025Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theo...
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago450 jaar 03 February 2025An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February. Just like i...
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’16 December 2024Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the ...
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’27 November 2024The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture. She held up a mirror to those p...
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Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’07 October 2024‘What more could I want?’ University and education historian Pieter Slaman is still deeply touched to have been awarded the LUS Education Prize for be...
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this11 September 2024Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD ca...
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery28 May 2024Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. In their own wa...
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The Dutch were masters of forgeries and fake news in the seventeenth century22 March 2024A book with a fake printer, a pamphlet with a treaty that does not exist and an execution print with a supportive crowd: just some examples of forgeri...
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress15 February 2024The varied mix of dress styles and many shades of black will no longer be seen at PhD ceremonies: permission was recently given for all members of the...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons28 November 2023From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western rememb...
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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University!16 November 2023In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are going to celebrate this with our students, staff, alum...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history24 November 2022It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer21 September 2022Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointe...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time20 September 2022The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance10 May 2022On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staf...