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‘The question is more important than the answer’08 August 2019Francesco Ragazzi loves to talk about international relations. But what makes him really happy is if his students question the discipline. This has wo...
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Veni grant for Mahmood Kooriadathodi: Can Islam be Matriarchal?29 July 2019One of the major stereotypes about Islam is that it is very male-dominant and women-oppressive, but is Islam really that patriarchal? Mahmood Kooriada...
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NWO grant for Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen29 July 2019Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen have been awarded funding from the NWO's Free Competition Humanities. They received the grant for their researc...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars25 July 2019Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...
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Tim Meijers receives a Veni for research into obligations to future generations23 July 2019What do we owe to future generations? And how do we fairly share the costs of complying with these obligations , knowing that the world is full of ine...
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Judith Naeff researches Arab ideals and disappointments with Veni grant22 July 2019University Lecturer on Middle Eastern cultures Judith Naeff, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, will receive a Veni grant of 250,000 euros. Th...
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities17 July 2019
No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers16 July 2019From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Prestigious Japanese Fukuoka Prize for Leonard Blussé27 June 2019Leonard Blussé, emeritus Professor in the History of European and Asian relations, will receive the prestigious Japanese Academic Fukuoka Prize. Bluss...
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Historian Jeroen Duindam receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first class17 June 2019On June 14th, Jeroen Duindam, Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities, was awarded an exceptionally high distinction for his achievements in...
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MA Translation awarded European Master’s in Translation label07 June 2019The MA Linguistic’s specialization in Translation has now been admitted to the prestigious European Masters in Translation (EMT) Network.
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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the Colony03 June 2019University lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. Th...
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Dorota Mokrosinska receives Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton28 May 2019Dorota Mokrosinska, University Lecturer of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy has been selected for a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty ...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers23 May 2019From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW23 April 2019Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...