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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate'06 February 2023Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does...
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’31 January 2023Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reali...
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Students remain ‘very satisfied’ with their degree programme in 202218 January 2023Almost 3,000 students from the Faculty of Humanities completed the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2022. With a response rate of 38%, t...
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Final project of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (minor CSSC)17 January 2023On 14 December 2022, students of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (as part of the Creative Strategies for a Society in Ch...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’22 December 2022University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'08 December 2022A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities24 November 2022Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Lan...
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Matthew Broad wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 202218 November 2022At the latest Institute Council meeting in November, the institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, ...
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Leiden University’s humanities in top 30 of Times Higher Education Rankings17 November 2022Leiden University's humanities have one of the top places in the Times Higher Education Rankings. This year, we were placed 26th.
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From a second-year project to an academic paper: ‘It was such a cool opportunity’17 November 2022It does not happen very often that a research project for a second-year bachelor's course gets turned into a proper academic paper. But International ...
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Master Class | Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History03 November 2022
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social ...
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Online Open Day for Professionals28 October 2022Whether it's brushing up on a language, a course on current legal issues, or a master's degree in cybersecurity. Get inspired at the Online Open Day f...
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns24 October 2022This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It...