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Finally signing the walls of the Sweat Room: 'That really is the finishing touch'05 June 2023An online ceremony, no party and then no signature in the Sweat Room: during the pandemic, many graduation traditions could not take place. Now anyone...
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Inspiring stories and ‘gezelligheid’ at the reunion and career day of South and Southeast Asian Studies30 May 2023Staff members, alumni, and students were greeted by a warm spring day to follow the various programmes during the reunion and career day of BA South a...
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room26 May 2023A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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CEO of Tata Steel: ‘We have a debt of honour as a company’22 May 2023Alumnus Hans van den Berg has never been that preoccupied with his career. But since he became CEO of Tata Steel Netherlands a year and a half ago, he...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’17 May 2023It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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Alumna Nadia Kadhim: From children’s rights to Forbes 30 under 3016 May 2023Alumna Nadia Kadhim started in 2017 as a corporate lawyer implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at one of the companies where she...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje15 May 2023Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts11 May 2023Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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International Relations’ alumni-student event: ‘Quality over quantity’ and other alumni advice for the job application process10 May 2023Practical advice, a panel discussion, and an informal networking reception: students and alumni from the MA International Relations can look back on y...
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Documentary film alumna Visual Ethnography on show at Pakhuis de Zwijger02 May 2023Wilke Geurds graduated from the Visual Ethnography master's programme last year with her intimate and vulnerable documentary 'F*ck Endo. More than jus...
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Nicolien Mizee new writer in residence at Leiden University01 May 2023Writer and columnist Nicolien Mizee will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence from autumn 2023.
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Alumni meet up in Japan. ‘Finally the chance to speak Dutch again’01 May 2023An impressive 60 alumni recently came to the Dutch Embassy residence in Japan to meet, network, see friends and practise their languages.