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New LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity15 October 2020The start of this year saw the opening of the LDE Centre for Governance, Migration and Diversity. The Centre looks at public administration and policy...
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University13 October 2020Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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Update Programme Standards07 October 2020
Follow-up steps are currently being taken in the Programme Standards project. The Programme Boards have been asked to prepare an action plan for each ...
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Ewout and Nicole discover the world with Area Studies06 October 2020Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies or International Relations: all examples of studies that are part of Area Studies at the Faculty of Humanities...
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Gijsbert Rutten new Professor of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch05 October 2020As of 1 July, Gijsbert Rutten is Professor by special appointment of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch at Leiden University. Rutten, who also works...
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Guest lecturing in Costa Rica from your own home: Early medieval English in Central America17 September 2020Working during Corona brings along various challenges but also unexpected opportunities. Thijs Porck, university lecturer medieval English at the Leid...
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’14 September 2020On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city...
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Leiden Humanities graduates more likely to find graduate-level job03 September 2020Our humanities graduates are doing well: 70% of our bachelor’s and master’s students find their first job within two months of graduation. And for 83%...
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Lotte Fikkers wins Faculty Teaching Prize 202002 September 2020Lotte Fikkers, university lecturer in English literature, received the Faculty Teaching Prize at the opening of the faculty year. ‘She is clearly very...
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Registration open for LeidenGlobal lecture series 'Discipline & Place'01 September 2020
‘Discipline and Place’ is a lecture series offered by LeidenGlobal to PhD and Research MA students in the Fall of 2020. It gives students an opportuni...
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Student consultancy programme PRINS of great value to employers31 August 2020The university’s largest consultancy programme, International Studies’ PRINS, has been connecting international employers with humanities students for...
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International Studies students receive their diploma28 August 2020Organised in four separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, a total of 260 students r...
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‘The sound of the city became the score for a musical instrument’25 August 2020Do the sounds that surround you as you cycle through the city sometimes annoy you? Don’t worry, because we can actively change the situation, says sou...
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Pilgrim conference: high time for an indigenous and more diverse perspective24 August 2020Historians and experts in American studies from Leiden University are holding an online international conference about the arrival of the Pilgrims in ...
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A warm welcome to first-years: working with one and a halve meters24 August 2020Everything is different this year because of the corona measures; introduction weeks, student life and education. In order to give new students a prop...