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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize 24 October 2024
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Vidi grant for The Future of Dying 24 October 2024
Amidst the growing availability of advanced life-lengthening medical interventions, both healthcare professionals and patients are recognizing that le...
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Mark Lindenberg and Ieke van Dam winners of the Metje Postma Awards 23 October 2024
'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Master’s students Brechtje de Jong and Ilse de Weert win KNMP Studentenprijs 2024 22 October 2024
Brechtje de Jong, a Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences master’s student, and Ilse de Weert, a Pharmacy student, have won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2024. They r...
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Nina Schmal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2024 21 October 2024
Successfully completing a master’s thesis in Political Science is no small feat. Not only is this for most students the most extensive and in-depth re...
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Saga Sjöberg and Thijs Brinksma win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes 2024 21 October 2024
All students receiving their bachelor diploma in Political Science last week had a reason or two to celebrate. Two of them especially so: they won the...
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Democracy in action: Horizon grant for policy-oriented research on grassroots culture and democracy 21 October 2024
Dr. Sara Brandellero and Dr. Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues from Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society will lead a collaborative research proje...
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos 17 October 2024
This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behavio...
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Larissa van den Herik sworn in as Deputy Judge 16 October 2024
Larissa van den Herik, Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, was sworn in as a Deputy Judge at ...
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award 10 October 2024
This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Maste...
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Honorary doctorates for Eliot Higgins, Kelly Chibale and Bonnie Honig 08 October 2024
Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder an...
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Professor Joanita Vroom investigates medieval Greece with The Packard Humanities Institute grant 07 October 2024
In 2024, Professor Joanita Vroom received a substantial grant from the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) in support for her Hinterlands of Medieval C...
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’ 02 October 2024
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. ...