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Tsolin Nalbantian receives Comenius grant: 'We must bridge the gap between education and society'02 August 2021In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, ...
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Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’02 August 2021In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realis...
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Open for Registration: Leiden Global Lecture Series for PhD and Research Master students29 July 2021
Discipline and Place in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, with these fields taken to include archaeology and law, is an annual lecture series fo...
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Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy'26 July 2021Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’09 July 2021How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate...
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Your PhD, what next? PhD Career Event 202107 July 2021
Do you already know what comes next after your PhD? Are you wondering how to accomplish the transition from academia to the labour market? Join our Ph...
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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification28 June 2021On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We...
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’28 June 2021A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal w...
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‘Every year new highs for PRINS consultancy programme'28 June 2021The World Food Programme, Philips, the European Space Agency. An overwhelming list of organisations that Sarita Koendjbiharie, as founder of the PRINS...
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Digital skills at History18 June 2021In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an i...
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Back to Rabat10 June 2021The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden in...
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'Misunderstood immortality' wins Capstone Conference 202129 May 2021‘’These are such mind-boggling topics!’’, a student exclaims. It is May 21st, and over fifty Humanities Lab students are gathered in a Teams room. The...
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Feeling stuck with your thesis or writing assignment? You’re welcome to ask the Humanities Writing Center for help21 May 2021Academic writing: it’s something that all students have to face. And it can be really quite difficult. The writing coaches at the Humanities Writing C...
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KNAW subsidy for the project ‘Religious studies in secondary education'12 May 2021Markus Altena Davidsen and colleagues Michaël van der Meer, Maurits Berger and Kim Beerden received a subsidy from the KNAW-Pilotfund. They will use t...
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’11 May 2021How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other studen...