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On 7 February 2025 Leiden University celebrated its 450th anniversary.

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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’
450 jaar 11 February 2025

Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests
450 years 10 February 2025

Workshops, tours, talks, music, an AI photobooth, interviews, a special poem and the launch of the LUF Children’s Fund. Alumni celebrated their alma m...
Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’
Special birthday 07 February 2025

An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freed...
Honorary doctorates for Eliot Higgins, Kelly Chibale and Bonnie Honig
08 October 2024

Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder an...

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