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Alumna Tessa Schiethart: 'If I could go back to my student days, I’d go right away'26 October 2022That Tessa Schiethart finished her bachelor's degree in International Studies with a thesis on Indonesian women's reasons for veiling was a coincidenc...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation20 October 2022Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduc...
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UN youth delegate Dennis Jansen gives young people a voice in the climate debate20 October 2022The goal of alumnus International Studies Dennis Jansen (24) is to make the voice of young people heard in the climate debate. In November he is going...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers18 October 2022Anke 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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Former CADS PhD student Stacey MacDonald in science programme Atlas on nature policy in Bonaire12 October 2022In the scientific television programme Atlas, social psychologist and former Cultural Anthropology PhD student Stacey MacDonald talks about her resear...
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IIASL alumni receive awards from the International Institute of Space Law29 September 2022The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) that took place last week in Paris was extremely successful for IIASL.
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Researching sustainable filmmaking approaches, while exploring Indigenous Futurisms through film practice19 September 2022ACPA alumna Dr. Itandehui Jansen is currently working on a new experimental film. The project researches sustainable filmmaking approaches, while expl...
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Alumna Sytske Besemer on living and working abroad15 September 2022This month's flash interview is with alumna Sytske Besemer, Criminologist, who works at a startup called Cradle. Sytske has specifically chosen to wo...
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How chemist Marc Tijhuis left business to change the world15 September 2022Halfway through his career alumnus Marc Tijhuis made a radical change: he left the corporate world to join the global battle against waste with the In...
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Leiden Revisited: Back to uni!Leiden Law School alumni event 2022 15 September 2022During Leiden Revisited, alumni from Leiden Law School were given the opportunity to relive their student days once more. This year, the event took pl...
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Ten years of International Studies: ‘During lectures I sometimes felt my brain was exploding with all the new insights.’14 September 2022The bachelor's programme in International Studies is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Ko Voskuilen was among the very first batch of students to fol...
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International Studies students receive their diploma02 September 2022On 2 September 2022, 300 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic P...
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New front office of Leiden University in Jakarta opened01 September 2022Last July, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University's Executive Board, opened t...
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana18 August 2022From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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Flash interview with alumna Liz Kool about her choice for a career with social impact21 July 2022Kool made a conscious choice to work for a non profit organisation. Recently, inspired by the pandemic, she also made a career switch.