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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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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...
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Tim Meijers: 'There are so many questions I still want to ask’21 August 2020The fact that Tim Meijers ended up becoming a philosopher came as no surprise. Even as a child, the university lecturer endlessly asked questions to h...
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These are the nominees for the Faculty Teaching Prize 202020 August 2020Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students and a jury decides who receives the prize...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'19 August 2020In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Susanna Lindberg new Professor of Continental Philosophy18 August 2020On 1 September, Susanna Lindberg will start as Professor of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. Lindberg will teach and research in the areas...
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Practicum Artium: creativity at its best18 August 2020Practicum Artium is a joint programme by Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) that offers students the opportunity to develop their a...
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Concrete Islands in Alphaville17 August 2020Concrete Islands in Alphaville A Photo Gallery of Responses to two Seminal Artistic Explorations of Urban Technocracy and its Monstrous Highways