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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia08 February 2017On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the f...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China06 February 2017No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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Barend Beekhuizen wins the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize06 February 2017
Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has won the 2016 AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) dissertation prize!
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 201602 February 2017With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize27 January 2017Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article "Chinese Gold-decorated Paper and the Pers...
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Election as Honorary Member of the LSA16 January 2017Prof. Dr. Willem Adelaar has been elected as Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
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Nomination for Barend Beekhuizen20 December 2016Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has been nominated for the annual AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) disser...
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Hall of Fame 201609 December 2016Many 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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Leonard Blussé wins ‘Special Book Award of China’22 November 2016Professor emeritus Leonard Blussé of the Leiden University Institute for History has won the ‘Special Book Award of China’. The Chinese government awa...
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Colm O'Flynn wins Best Thesis Award at SAIS Bologna07 October 2016Leiden alumn Colm O'Flynn joined the second MA programme at SAIS Bologna in 2015, and with good result: his final thesis was named the best of the ye...
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Marion Boers wins Humanities Education Award 201607 September 2016Art history lecturer Marion Boers was awarded the Humanities Education Award at the opening of the academic year this afternoon. Every year, the most ...
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‘Today’s refugees are tomorrow’s Dutch citizens’05 September 2016From virtual education to a friendly meeting place where refugees and Dutch students can get to know one another. Investing in refugees is in the inte...
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize30 August 2016Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his articl...
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Louis Sicking receives NWO grant for Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe30 August 2016Louis Sicking's Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe was awarded an 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant from NWO. What can we le...
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International Studies students receive their diplomas26 August 2016No fewer than 194 students received their bachelor's diplomas in International Studies on Friday 26 August.