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Maps and atlases collection Bodel Nijenhuis available for online search23 October 2024With the addition of over 16,500 new catalogue records, the collection of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872) is now almost entirely searcha...
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Reconnecting in Leiden, 15 years after graduation17 October 2024During the first weekend of October, a group of fourteen Master of Arts in European Union Studies alumni returned to the place it all began, 15 years ...
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Alumnus and lawyer Roger Cox uses the law to enforce climate policy17 October 2024Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law ...
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre17 October 2024Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
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In Memoriam: Ruchama Noorda16 October 202415 March 1979 - 11 October 2024
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Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets16 October 2024Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?
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Sign the petition against the higher education cuts15 October 2024Universities will be hit hard by the announced cuts to higher education. Essential disciplines and jobs will disappear. And a fine will be introduced ...
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Did your family also study in Leiden?14 October 2024Did your grandfather or grandmother also study in Leiden? And your parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters...?
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Flash interview with alumnus Kees van der Staaij: I’m still a lawyer at heart14 October 2024Kees van der Staaij started studying Law at Leiden University in 1986, specialising in Constitutional and Administrative Law. He graduated in 1991.
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Banner exhibition graphic works of Harry van Kruiningen about the Epic of Gilgamesh09 October 2024The Epic of Gilgamesh was a lifelong inspiration to artist Harry van Kruiningen. This tale from Mesopotamia about the adventures of Gilgamesh, the leg...
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PR Coordinator LIFF Jetske Breedeveld: 'Going to the cinema between lectures'08 October 2024Alumna Jetske Breedeveld pursued both a Bachelor's in English Language and Culture and a Master's in Literary Studies at Leiden University. Her passio...
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Beatrice de Graaf to deliver the 53rd Huizinga Lecture01 October 2024On Thursday, December 12, 2024, historian and terrorism expert Beatrice de Graaf will deliver the 53rd Huizinga Lecture at the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leid...
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Public Administration celebrates its anniversary, professors reflect: '40 years young!'23 September 2024Public Administration has been around for 40 years, and that deserves to be celebrated. Before the festivities begin, four figures from the Institute ...
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal20 September 2024The exhibition ‘Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades’ at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alum...
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Personal Professional Skills Lab: a certificate for the development of FSW bachelor studentsFrom now on FSW students can follow a three-year elective, faculty programme with certificate for personal-professional development 20 September 2024In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-...