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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award07 April 2022Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of ...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia21 March 2022Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Dissertation Joost Grootens awarded as one the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021.21 March 2022PhDArts alumnus Joost Grootens’ book 'Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information’ has ...
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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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Nicole van Os wins Academy Kiss01 March 2022Nicole van Os won the Academy Kiss 2022. Van Os, study coordinator and advisor who also chairs the Delegation of Workers' Organizations in The Local C...
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Charlotte van der Voort wins Leiden Thesis Prize09 February 2022The winner of the Leiden University Thesis Prize has made an original and substantial contribution to argumentation theory. This is what Annetje Ottow...
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Warja Tolstoj wins Ted Meijer prize02 February 2022Warja Tolstoj, alumna Art History, has been awarded the 2021 edition of the Ted Meijerprijs. Named after the former director of the KNIR (Royal Nether...
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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers10 January 2022Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros...
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie20 December 2021Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honou...
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Tazuko van Berkel new member The Young Academy09 December 2021The Young Academy has gained a new Leiden humanities scholar as a member. University lecturer Greek language and literature Tazuko van Berkel will be ...
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 202108 December 2021The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christian...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education29 November 2021Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award23 November 2021Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and...
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Marcel Cobussen receives Best Speaker Award12 November 2021On November 9, Marcel Cobussen received the Best Speaker Award of the 2021 Conference on Sound, Sound Studies, and Soundscaping.
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 202111 November 2021Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.