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ACPA alumnus Clarence Charles on functions of calypso music as a cultural expression 04 July 2022
Charles wrote an article 'Assimilating Afro Caribbean Carnivalesque Culture' for the publication 'Understanding América. The essential contribution of...
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Succesful first edition of the MA International Relations Alumni Career Networking Event 04 July 2022
Students, staff members and alumni of the MA International Relations programme gathered together on the first student-alumni career networking event t...
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Diversity in society: ‘We are looking for a new approach to an existing phenomenon’ 04 July 2022
What is the best way for us as a society to deal with all the different forms of diversity? Professor Marlou Schrover will use the EuroScience Open Fo...
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Renovation of South Cluster is well underway: photo report 01 July 2022
Concrete pillars without a roof, windows without glass, storeys without walls. It’s clearly evident that the South Cluster is being dismantled. Take a...
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One last time 'AskBetty': 'The best part was being able to teach people something' 01 July 2022
Betty de Jonge is a household name in our faculty. As the person behind AskBetty, she knew how to answer every question about Office. Starting this mo...
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Journal of Sonic Studies 23 online 30 June 2022
The editors of the Journal of Sonic Studies are proud to announce that its 23th issue is online.
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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University 30 June 2022
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them...
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‘Artists seek and research another dimension of science’ 27 June 2022
In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the ...
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‘The ancient Egyptians were concerned with more than just death’ 23 June 2022
When we think about ancient Egypt, the first things that come to mind are usually mummies and sarcophagi. According to researcher and Rijksmuseum van ...
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Out now! LEAP # 2: (Mis)Reading Nature 23 June 2022
LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course....
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’ 20 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics ...
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GDPR error? Report it! ‘We’re not here to rap people on the knuckles’ 20 June 2022
Starting four years ago, the same privacy laws apply throughout the European Union: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law also affect...
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century s...
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Russian writer Maxim Osipov coming to Leiden University 17 June 2022
Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the...
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Students advise international organisations: 'I mainly learned how to communicate' 17 June 2022
Twelve weeks of hard work later, the big moment has finally arrived: the third-year students of International Studies are ready to complete the 'Pract...