News
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William Christie - Honorary Doctor proposed by the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts 19 February 2015
The Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts will be proudly awarding an Honorary Doctorate within the upcoming 440th Dies Natalis.
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Jan Oster wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 02 February 2015
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the first Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Must...
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Start project A New History of Fishes 28 January 2015
The NWO just announced the results of the Vrije Competitie proposals. Paul Smith, professor at the French department is, as a member of LUCAS, one of ...
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Vrije Competitie Grant for Lisa Cheng and Anikó Liptak 07 January 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded LUCL researchers prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Anikó Liptak a Vrije Competitie gr...
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Dorota Mokrosinska receives ERC Starting Grant 16 December 2014
Assistant professor Political Philosophy Dorota Mokrosinska has received the ERC Starting Grant for her project Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical St...
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Marian Klamer receives NWO Vici-grant 01 October 2014
Linguist Marian Klamer, associated with Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, is one of the 31 scientists to receive a NWO Vici-grant for her rese...
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Leiden Humanities ranks high in QS World University Ranking 17 September 2014
Humanities Faculty Leiden occupies a 49th place in the field of Arts & Humanities in the QS World University Ranking. Especially the subject areas Lin...
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Jeff Fynn-Paul named co-recipient of Spanish government research grant 09 September 2014
In August it was announced that Jeff Fynn-Paul was named co-recipient of a 15,000 EUR grant given by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitivid...
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NWO Veni grant for Thomas Fossen 07 August 2014
Dr Thomas Fossen (Institute for Philosophy) has been awarded with an NWO Veni grant for his research project 'Critical moments: How do events affect h...
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Researchers Humanities receive Veni grants 01 August 2014
Three scholars of the Faculty of Humanities, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Thomas Fossen, and Tsolin Nalbantian, have received a Veni grant to implement their rese...
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Marie Curie – ITN Project ‘ForSeaDiscovery’ 23 July 2014
Catia Antunes is one of the main partners in the ‘ForSeaDiscovery – Forest Resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Disc...
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VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’ 08 July 2014
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VI...
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Fulbright award for MA student Çağlar Köseoğlu 18 June 2014
Çağlar Köseoğlu, MA student Literary Studies, has received the Fulbright Graduate Student Grant intended for students who want to study for a master’s...
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Yannis Kyriakides awarded first prize in International Rostrum for Composers 06 June 2014
Yannis Kyriakides, PhD student at Academy of Creative and Performing Arts , has received the prestigious International Rostrum for Composers award, in...
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Roberta D'Alessandro granted Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia 04 June 2014
Professor Roberta D’Alessandro, Chair of Italian Language and Culture at the Leiden University, has been awarded one of Italy’s highest honors: she is...