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In Memoriam: Rudolf E. de Jong (1958–2024) 15 March 2024
On Friday 16 February 2024, Rudolf E. de Jong passed away unexpectedly in Cairo. Since 2012, he was the director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute ...
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Santino Regilme Wins International Studies Association's Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention, 2023-2024 14 March 2024
Salvador Santino Regilme received an honorable mention from the Human Rights Section at the International Studies Association (ISA) for his book, Aid ...
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’ 14 March 2024
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying i...
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages 12 March 2024
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Afric...
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’ 11 March 2024
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that mo...
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Liselore Tissen appointed ambassador for network of congress ambassadors 08 March 2024
External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen has been appointed ambassador for Leiden City of Science. As the youngest member and the only non-professor in ...
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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy 07 March 2024
With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-centur...
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.' 06 March 2024
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Ed...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play 05 March 2024
A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form 05 March 2024
In her “Jews and Judaism” lecture class, Dr. Sarah Cramsey’s students produced 7-minute long podcasts instead of final papers.
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco 05 March 2024
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (Nimar) in Rabat at the end of February. For a whole host of disciplines...
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In memoriam: Juan José Jaime Aloísio Archidona Ramírez (1992 - 2024) 04 March 2024
On Monday 26 February the terrible news reached us that our gifted former Egyptology student – and former student assistant at the Leids Papyrologisch...
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ 04 March 2024
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy 29 February 2024
Western civil servants openly struggle at times with their own government’s policies on the war in Gaza. In protest, civil servants in various countri...
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages' 29 February 2024
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother La...