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Trumpet, drum and teamwork: ISGA colleagues perform at the Canal Concert26 June 2025What do you get when you bring a percussionist and a trumpet player together in a project orchestra? A story full of passion, unique experiences and a...
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Experts share future vision at Data for Policy 2025: ‘Data centres must become not only smarter, but also cleaner’25 June 2025The Data for Policy 2025 conference, held at Leiden University in The Hague, brought together 120 participants from across Europe and beyond to explor...
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Video labs and narratives of future conflicts: two lecturers receive a Comenius GrantInnovation in education 24 June 2025Lecturers Marjo de Graauw and Malte Riemann have both received a Comenius Teaching Fellowship. The €50,000 grant will enable them and their project te...
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Exhibition 'Outside the Box': Where law and creativity meetHonours College Law 23 June 2025What happens when students are given the freedom to think outside the box? Honours College Law students got to try it through their 'unessays': an alt...
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From hormone differences to valid questionnaires: psychology students present their research at the Science Day 202519 June 2025How do you measure over-protective parenting? Why are girls more likely to develop anxiety disorders? And do the social skills of therapists really ma...
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Leiden University College writing project brings students together: ‘I am a kitchen in Gaza, and now it is dark’19 June 2025What happens when students from three very different contexts come together to explore the social determinants of health? This spring, students from L...
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'No study is as relevant as Security Studies, you learn about everything that is going wrong in the world right now'18 June 2025Four students who completed the Bachelor's in Security Studies share their experiences. What did they learn? Where did they end up after graduating? A...
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Looking back at the universe’s wild youthInaugural lecture Mariska Kriek 17 June 2025How do galaxies form? Thanks to major technological advances, astronomers are gaining ever-deeper insights, says astrophysicist Mariska Kriek in her i...
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Change Labs: ‘Redesigning your course from scratch is inspiring – like working with a blank canvas’Innovation in education 16 June 2025This academic year saw the start of the Change Lab(oratory) project. Teaching staff from various departments worked on innovations in their master's c...
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MIRD students engage with high-level diplomacy during Geneva study tripEduaction 16 June 2025From 26 to 28 May, second-year students of the Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) participated in the programme's annual visit...
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Fifth edition of LEAP launched16 June 2025After a semester of brainstorming, writing, rewriting and editing, the time has come: the fifth edition of Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) ...
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PRINS introduces students to the world of practice: ‘I’m now even considering a career at the Ministry’16 June 2025The successful PRINS (PRactising INternational Studies) project offers International Studies students an introduction to the world of practice. In the...
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This course brings opera into the classroom: ‘Many themes are still relevant today’Honours Challenge 13 June 2025What can opera tell us about societies in the past and present? Leiden honours students went looking for an answer, together with students from the Du...
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Honesty doesn’t always pay in negotiations12 June 2025When negotiating a salary or a purchase, negotiators often make strategic use of emotions. Social psychologist Zi Ye demonstrates how one negotiator m...
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University12 June 2025To celebrate the formal launch of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC, 莱顿华语酷儿文献收藏), promote Chinese queer studies scholarship, and raise the vis...