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Alumnus Marit Brun makes travel guides with a nod to anthropologyInterview 19 March 2025
Anthropologist Marit Brun captured Leiden’s student life during her studies, which won her the ‘Best Leiden photo’ competition. She now wants to conti...
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Alumnus Bart Jansen: ‘It’s up to us legal philosophers to make sense of these times’18 March 2025
Legal philosopher Bart Jansen teaches at universities around the world. In an interview two years ago, he spoke about his professional fascination for...
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Last chance to participate in the Humanities labor market survey17 March 2025
Did you graduate from the Faculty of Humanities in the period from 2020 to 2024? Then participate in our labor market survey!
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Academy for the rule of law: ‘Indispensable in populist times’03 March 2025
Around fifty civil servants and journalists have jointly delved into rule of law issues since the launch of the Academy for the Rule of Law, a Dutch c...
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Anniversary activity: visit Leiden University at the Impact Fair 2025!03 March 2025
Leiden University will share impactful research and teaching with policymakers, businesses and the general public at the Impact Fair in Utrecht on Thu...
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Online exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies27 February 2025
From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden Univers...
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Alumni meet in Brussels: ‘We’re at a crossroads in European history’19 February 2025
Alumni who live and work in Brussels met on 18 February at the annual Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event. As well as celebrating Leiden University’s 450t...
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LUC anniversary: 15 inspiring examples of local impact18 February 2025
In 2025, Leiden University College (LUC) celebrates its 15th anniversary with the theme 'Global challenges, local impact'. To kick off this anniversar...
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Gijs Zebregts: ‘I want to give hope to fellow sufferers of leukaemia’Humans of Humanities 18 February 2025
Gijs Zebregts had just graduated from International Studies when he was stricken with acute leukaemia. A stem cell donor brought relief. Now he is goi...
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Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests450 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...
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Thesis on homeless people's gendered experiences wins FSW Thesis Prize 202407 February 2025
With her thesis 'Gendered Experiences and Homelessness Trajectories: An Anthropological Fieldwork Study in The Hague, the Netherlands', Elleke Schreur...
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Alumnus Willem van der Muur: ‘I wanted to work somewhere I could make an impact’27 January 2025
Willem van der Muur worked at the Van Vollenhoven Institute as a PhD candidate from 2013 to 2019. After completing his doctorate he left for Indonesia...
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New album by Gabriel Paiuk27 January 2025
ACPA alumnus Gabriel Paiuk is releasing a new album, titled Degrees of Transparency, on the Unsounds label.
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants24 January 2025
The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2025. ...
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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access23 January 2025
The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini...