News
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Get Started campaign kicks off: Make students aware of the importance of the library 05 September 2022
Assignments, work groups, deadlines and the first exams in sight! The Get Started campaign of Leiden University Libraries aims to help new students to...
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International Studies students receive their diploma 02 September 2022
On 2 September 2022, 300 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic P...
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Leiden researchers organise first Week of Ancient Writing 02 September 2022
This month marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. NINO, the Language Museum, Things that Talk and th...
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An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that 01 September 2022
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was suppos...
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Neurolinguists investigate the brain: not two, but three options for brain functional categories 01 September 2022
Based on the results of a language-switching experiment, PhD candidate Fatemeh (Simeen) Tabassi Mofrad MA and Professor Niels Schiller have discovered...
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Urban Studies students conduct practical research into the Humanities Campus: ‘It needs lots of green spaces and light’ 01 September 2022
Over the past few months, Urban Studies students have been helping to think about the realisation of the Humanities Campus. To test their knowledge in...
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Writer in residence Maxim Osipov: ‘Writing is the development of truth’ 29 August 2022
Since criticising the war in Ukraine, Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov has fled Russia. Come September, he will be Leiden University’s wri...
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’ 29 August 2022
Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest prog...
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In Memoriam: Prof.dr. Henk Bodewitz (1939-2022) 24 August 2022
On August 18, 2022, Henk Bodewitz, distinguished Indologist and emeritus professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University, passed away in his hometown of Ut...
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Students from all around the world discover The Hague 22 August 2022
A day at the beach, games, a visit to an embassy and a pub crawl. The activities at HOPweek help new students get to know not just The Hague but each ...
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Exhibition unveils Central Asian part of Silk Road 22 August 2022
An exhibition at Oude UB takes visitors to the historical Silk Road. Old maps, clothes and jewellery reflect the rich heritage of the cities of Centra...
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‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance 22 August 2022
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you m...
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South Cluster construction work continues over the summer 12 August 2022
The construction work on the South Cluster is going ahead throughout the summer. See the photo's and the video below!
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects 11 August 2022
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and fo...
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Mentor network for students and researchers affected by war in Ukraine: 'These are our colleagues' 11 August 2022
When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, normal life there came to a halt. To ensure that affected students and researchers can continue th...