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First on-campus event for prospective students: ‘Dr. Black’s seminar was so interactive!’27 September 2021Touring the campus, meeting current students and taking part in an interactive seminar in the Lipsius building. After 1,5 years of online events due t...
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'20 September 2021On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document13 September 2021Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul06 September 2021Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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Graduation Day for BA International Studies Students03 September 2021Organised in three separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, over 200 students receiv...
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First batch of students BA Urban Studies receive diploma01 September 2021On Wednesday 1 September, the first thirteen students of the new BA Urban Studies at Leiden University, received their diplomas in person in The Hague...
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New courses on 'Violence'01 September 2021In the academic year 2021-2022 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer two courses for interested students who are e...
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy31 August 2021This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud ...
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'13 August 2021A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 202...
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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option12 August 2021‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challeng...
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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...