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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group 24 October 2022
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Gr...
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns 24 October 2022
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It...
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor 20 October 2022
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she ...
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Graduation Ceremony MA International Relations 20 October 2022
On Wednesday 19 October 2022, the graduation ceremony for the International Relations MA programme took place. In the Teylerszaal of the Academy Build...
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Call for Applications docARTES 20 October 2022
Apply now for docARTES- doctoral programme 2023 - 2024
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea 20 October 2022
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explai...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’ 19 October 2022
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers 18 October 2022
Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at ...
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature 17 October 2022
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will p...
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Tijmen Pronk creates MOOC: 'It is our responsibility to share knowledge' 13 October 2022
What actually goes into the development of a massive open online course, a MOOC? University lecturer Tijmen Pronk developed the course 'Introduction t...
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize 13 October 2022
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Assessor talk: Anne Wellink succeeds Ebrar Kaya as assessor 13 October 2022
Being a student member of the faculty board? Ebrar Kaya fulfilled this role last year as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. In September, Anne Wel...
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Marlou Schrover on her second appointment as LDE professor 13 October 2022
Professor Marlou Schrover will receive a second appointment as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor. In addition to her current position as professor of Mig...
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Debate on World Cup Qatar: Boycott it or seize opportunity for attention? 13 October 2022
The FIFA World Cup will get underway in Qatar this November – an event that has attracted much discussion in recent years. This discussion is not only...
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films 11 October 2022
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten d...