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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize08 November 2021
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanq...
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society14 October 2021Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan v...
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Aline-Priscillia and Ruşen nominated for an ECHO Award14 October 2021Working towards a more inclusive and diverse society, next to your studies. Humanities students Aline-Priscillia Messi and Ruşen Koç devote a consider...
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Rubicon grant for four Leiden researchers04 October 2021Four promising young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable th...
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Andrea Cortellari wins the best MA thesis prize in Turkish Studies18 August 2021
Andrea Cortellari, a 2020 graduate of the MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, wins the best MA thesis prize...
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NWO grant for PhD-project Frederique Visser05 August 2021Frederique Visser, winner of the Foundation’s 2020 Mr. Hugo Weiland Thesis, has been awarded a NWO grant to support her PhD-project 'Rhythms and Ruptu...
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These are the nominees for the Faculty Teaching Prize 202130 July 2021Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students and a jury decides who will receive the p...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’12 July 2021It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Hossam Ahmed receives Comenius teaching grant for Digital Humanities track28 June 2021A better integration of Digital Humanities into study programmes, so that students develop their digital skills as well as possible. That is what Hoss...
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs25 June 2021Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Langu...
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant21 June 2021Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure21 June 2021In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021
Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 202116 June 2021The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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Frederique Visser wins Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize 202016 June 2021This year, the second Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize of the Foundation for Austrian Studies has been awarded. This prize, in honour of the founder and long...