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Public Administration celebrates its anniversary, professors reflect: '40 years young!'23 September 2024Public Administration has been around for 40 years, and that deserves to be celebrated. Before the festivities begin, four figures from the Institute ...
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Lotte: 'It was because of my colleagues that I chose history in Leiden'20 September 2024Her part-time job as a city guide in Dordrecht opened Lotte Hamm's eyes: not business administration, but history was her dream study. This semester s...
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Personal Professional Skills Lab: a certificate for the development of FSW bachelor studentsFrom now on FSW students can follow a three-year elective, faculty programme with certificate for personal-professional development 20 September 2024In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-...
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Leiden University addresses the UN on children’s rights19 September 2024Leiden University celebrates 10 years of OPIC by giving a key contribution at UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s commemoration event.
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Successful start of new Governance of Migration and Diversity LL.M.19 September 2024On 30 September 2024, the newly established LL.M. track of the multidisciplinary Governance of Migration and Diversity master's programme welcomed its...
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language17 September 2024Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach thi...
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The last Research Traineeship programme has ended for now: ‘We’ll bring it back as soon as we can’17 September 2024Amsterdam’s attitude to sex work, politeness in historical Arabic letters and malaria in the Middle Ages: again this year, there was a wide variety of...
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What does it mean to be Ukrainian?16 September 2024It is almost two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict between the two countries has been going on for much longer. Central ...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2024: the nominees13 September 2024Research skills are an essential component of the education programmes of the Institute of Political Science. After all, the challenges our (internati...
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2024: the nominees12 September 2024The thesis is a major milestone for master students graduating in Political Science. It demonstrates their ability to conduct research independently a...
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library12 September 2024Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century me...
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‘As a government official, you are one of those buttons to turn’, according to researcher Mathilde Witkam12 September 2024We spoke with Mathilde Witkam about her research as a dual PhD candidate at the Dual PhD Centre. Her dissertation is about the effect of open governme...
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Science for Sustainable Societies: a new interdisciplinary bachelor’s programme12 September 2024How do you tackle environmental challenges and societal transitions from an interdisciplinary perspective? Starting from September 2025 students will ...
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Active Acquaintance for new Archaeology students: ‘Wellbeing, study succes, and having fun is all connected’09 September 2024Since 2023 the newly arriving Archaeology students are invited to join an active introduction day during which they get to know the Faculty and each o...
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Faculty Opening of the Academic Year: ''Navigating complexities''04 September 2024The social sciences are vital in navigating complexities, fostering understanding and bridging divides. This was celebrated during the faculty opening...