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Join the Humans of Humanities film premiere in Trianon!24 January 2020The humanities consist of various academic fields. But what is the common ground of all these different academics and students? And why does their wor...
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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork24 January 2020Descriptions of different languages help us understand what speakers of different languages share worldwide. At the same time, having descriptions of ...
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Orpheus Instituut acquires prestigious library Ton Koopman23 January 2020The Orpheus Instituut acquires the prestigious library of Ton Koopman. The focus of the collection is 17th- and 18th-century music, its cultural conte...
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Colonisation and migration in New-America16 January 2020Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)13 January 2020Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views09 January 2020The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Jeroen Touwen new Vice-Dean of Humanities06 January 2020Jeroen Touwen has been appointed Vice-Dean and portfolio holder for bachelor’s programmes at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 January 2020...
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LeidenGlobal course for Research Master's students and PhD candidates17 December 2019
LeidenGlobal course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's students09 December 2019Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 201906 December 2019The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in t...
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New elective in practical rhetoric02 December 2019In February 2020 Jed Wentz will start the new course 'Practical Rhetoric: public speaking according to historical sources'. Registration is now open!
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Four top courses for Humanities27 November 2019Four bachelor courses are rewarded as Top courses.
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’?25 November 2019Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Leiden University advises students to leave Hong Kong15 November 2019Leiden University is advising its students to leave Hong Kong and return to the Netherlands. This is due to the worsening situation there.
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Being a part of the network of Leiden graduates across the world01 November 2019The students of European Union Studies visited Brussels this October, and it was another successful and worthwhile trip for those students in the MA I...