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Registration open new minor Violence Studies22 April 2022In the academic year 2022-2023 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer a new minor for students who are interested i...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers21 April 2022Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’21 April 2022The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event21 April 2022Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience07 April 2022A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge...
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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award07 April 2022Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of ...
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Break the familiar routine of papers and write a blog post! ‘This way you can be more involved with the subject’25 March 2022Exam, paper, exam, paper. A familiar, though sometimes little unexciting, routine for students. That is why Film and Literary students Sietske de Haan...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'17 March 2022Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'10 March 2022During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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Grand opening of POPcorner The Hague17 February 2022With an opening speech, a panel discussion on the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven and a push on the red button outside the building itself, POPcorner The H...
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Charlotte van der Voort wins Leiden Thesis Prize09 February 2022The winner of the Leiden University Thesis Prize has made an original and substantial contribution to argumentation theory. This is what Annetje Ottow...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University03 February 2022The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today24 January 2022Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not g...
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3472 students filled in the National Student Survey24 January 2022As many as 3,472 students from the Faculty of Humanities have filled in the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2021. This represents a 46%...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden10 January 2022The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...