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‘Lectures with the teacher talking for 90 minutes are completely outdated’16 July 2020Historian Robert Stein is a lecturer in Medieval History. He was recently awarded the Senior Teaching Qualification. What did he learn from the STQ tr...
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Teachers on remote teaching: ‘You really have to act as a moderator06 July 2020As a result of the current coronavirus outbreak, almost all of our teaching is done online. However, even before this, several teachers were involved ...
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Rick Honings appointed Scaliger professor30 June 2020Senior lecturer Rick Honings has been appointed Scaliger professor with effect from 1 July 2020. In the coming years his focus will be on promoting te...
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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History26 June 2020The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Class...
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‘We add a bit of escape room to our lessons’17 June 2020Tommy Hopstaken and Jochem Haverhoek run an escape room in Kruithuisje, a medieval tower on what was once the perimeter canal in Leiden. They are also...
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Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy: ‘The Instagram influencer should also be preserved as a historical source’08 June 2020Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy, assistant professor of African History and International Studies, has received a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant of 50,0...
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André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments'05 June 2020All the world leaders have had to choose an approach during the global Covid-19 crisis. But which approach is the most effective? André Gerrits, Profe...
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Area Studies Week from 2-5 June: Join our live Q&As!26 May 2020Interested in Area Studies? Then Leiden is the place to be! Join our Online Area Studies Week from 2-5 June to find out more. From Africa to Brasil an...
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Three Comenius teaching grants for young Leiden lecturers18 May 2020Three young lecturers are to receive a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant of 50,000 euros. The grant will allow each of them to implement an innovation pr...
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'18 May 2020Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation14 May 2020Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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‘At first I thought it was a scam when I got an email from the UN’28 April 2020Karen Smith is a university lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History and she occupies a unique position: she has one foot in t...
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Esa Kasmir: ‘Online video classes give me a reason to change out of my pajamas’28 April 2020Esa Kasmir (21) is a third-year student in International Studies and is doing a minor in Philosophy. How does he cope with the present situation and h...
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis24 April 2020No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14...
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‘I miss the books and papers from my office’20 April 2020Our lecturers had just a week to convert their lessons into online formats. It was an enormous challenge because by no means everyone at Leiden Univer...