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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event21 April 2022Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Back in Brussels! A lively alumni event19 April 2022After two years, it was great to be back in Brussels again. Many thanks to all alumni and students who were present during the academic discussion on ...
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Speckmann Awards 2022 for Simay Çetin, Nova Folkersma, Marta Mas Castella, Iris Molenaar and Emma van der Plas19 April 2022Alumna Simay Çetin received the award for her Master thesis: ‘Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexuality am...
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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’19 April 2022To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden...
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Flash interview with alumna and European Commission lawyer Helena Loutas-Paraskeva19 April 2022Following our Leiden Brussels Alumni Event, I (external officer M. Blaauw, ed.) met our very own Leiden Law alumna Helena-Loutas Paraskeva. An Austral...
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Alumnus Thomas King: 'Cycling home after a borrel feels like a thing of the past now'13 April 2022Meet Thomas King, alumnus BA International Studies: ‘I’m currently living in London which is a really amazing experience! I’m a British citizen and I ...
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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’12 April 2022Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Autism with borders31 March 2022Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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UBL acquires rare Chinese Miao album28 March 2022Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'17 March 2022Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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Flash interview with alumna Kartica van der Zon15 March 2022Did you know that PhD candidates are also alumni of your alma mater? High time to put a PhD alumna and her research in the spotlight. Besides, this mo...
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague07 March 2022The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about th...
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’03 March 2022Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented...
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Advocating for Human rights in Brussels: catching up with Calum Thomson17 February 2022Many students see themselves working at an NGO in Brussels after graduation. Alumnus Calum Thomson (26) is doing just that. In 2021 Calum started work...
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?16 February 2022Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor i...