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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance Day05 May 2020This year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan M...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories23 April 2020Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career03 March 2020Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration21 January 2020Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the...
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood13 January 2020New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in O...
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’25 November 2019Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November...
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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’11 November 2019Her book ‘Veel valse hoop’ (Much False Hope) about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German his...
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‘Rembrandt has come home’04 November 2019Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. There are still numerous other activities such as lectures, the University...
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator21 October 2019Emeritus professors Dirk van Delft and Frits Berends both channelled their inner Sherlock Holmes as they delved into the life and work of the great ph...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition10 October 2019A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor01 October 2019
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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Never too young to learn: Leiden University in the 3 October parade30 September 2019For the first time ever, a float from Leiden University is taking part in the Grand Parade during the Relief of Leiden or Leidens Ontzet. October 3 is...
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer23 September 2019He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy:...
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How Leiden became 'the wonder of Europe'31 July 2019Curiosities from the anatomical theatre, swords from the fencing school and 17th-century portraits of the University's founders. The new University Ro...
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Exhibition looks at turbulent history of Njord rowing club29 May 2019Antique wooden oars, hard-fought medals and iconic photos from rowing history. An exhibition at Oude UB spotlights key figures and moments from the 14...