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Five Leiden professors elected to KNAW18 April 2018The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Leiden professors from different disciplines as new members. Two of the new member...
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Bas van Rijn wins the Cornelis Tiele MA Thesis Award 201813 April 2018The Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) has decided to award the Cornelis Tiele MA Thesis Award 2018 to LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn for ...
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Ariadne Schmidt appointed professor of the Cultural History of Leiden06 April 2018Ariadne Schmidt will be appointed professor by special appointment of the Magdalena Moons chair at Leiden University. From 1 September 2018 she will ...
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Former Leiden Colleague Sven Vleeming honored with ‘Festschrift’21 February 2018On February 2nd, 2018, Professor Sven P. Vleeming of Trier University was presented with a ‘Festschrift’ to celebrate his retirement last summer. The ...
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Leonie Henkes wins the OIKOS thesis award14 February 2018Leonie Henkes will be honored with the OIKOS Thesis Award 2017!
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Hall of Fame 201722 December 2017Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, t...
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Jenny Audring runner-up for The Sebeok-Love Award22 November 2017The Sebeok-Love Award is awarded annually by the editorial board (a selection of articles is shortlisted by editors) of Language Sciences, for the bes...
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Ton Koopman wins Edison Achievement Prize17 November 2017Emeritus Professor Ton Koopman has been awarded the 2017 Edison Classical Achievement Award. He was presented with this prestigious Dutch music award ...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden09 November 2017Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award06 September 2017Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s...
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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year04 September 2017One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place. Plast...
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Veni award for Anna Dlabačová31 July 2017The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to four Humanities researchers at Leiden University. One of them i...
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches28 July 2017The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...
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NWO KIEM Grant for LUCAS researchers05 July 2017Together with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and creative partner Big Orange, Laura Bertens, Sara Polak, Yra van Dijk, and Thony Visser will investiga...
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3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award01 June 2017The international World Cultural Council (WCC) has awarded Nadine Akkerman, Victoria Nyst and Alicia Schrikker with Special Recognition Awards given t...