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Subtle sounds open things in the mind 06 December 2018
Distance / Fiction is a sound installation that deals with the ways listening is entwined with processes and techniques of sound mediation.
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Bachelor Religious Studies top program according to 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2019' 23 November 2018
The bachelor program Religious Studies has, besides also Linguistics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, been awarded by the 'Keuzevakkengids Universite...
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Letting go of perfection. PhD candidate creates opera about the rebel composer Monteverdi 19 June 2018
As part of his PhD research at the Leiden University, Johannes Boer wrote an opera about the turbulent year in the life of the Italian composer Claudi...
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Just published: Festschrift in honour of Sven P. Vleeming 09 May 2018
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Religious Studies does well in QS Rankings by Subject 08 March 2018
Leiden’s Religious Studies ranks 40th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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Former Leiden Colleague Sven Vleeming honored with ‘Festschrift’ 21 February 2018
On February 2nd, 2018, Professor Sven P. Vleeming of Trier University was presented with a ‘Festschrift’ to celebrate his retirement last summer. The ...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017
Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Alanna O'Malley on the election of new United Nations secretary-general António Guterres 13 October 2016
The election of a new secretary-general of the UN has reinvigorated the discussion on reform of the institution. Criticism on its functioning often fo...
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Wim Willems and Hanneke Verbeek are the winners of the Die Haghe prize of 2016 10 October 2016
Wim Willems and Hanneke Verbeek were awarded with the Die Haghe Prize of 2016 for their book ‘Hier woonden wij. Hoe een stad zijn Joodse verleden hero...
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Iran expert Maaike Warnaar columnist for Leidsch Dagblad 30 June 2016
The next few weeks Iran expert Maaike Warnaar will write a weekly column in the Leidsch Dagblad. She will write about her work and about private matters.
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Book publication Wim Willems ‘Hagenezen die er mochten wezen’ 30 May 2016
What, and especially who has formed the city The Hague? Wim Willems, professor Social History and director of the Modern Urban Studies (MUS) Institute...
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Introducing Historians Without Borders 26 May 2016
In the summer of 2015 the former Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja, together with a group of Finnish historians, took an important initiative an...
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Freedom is not our gift to the world 08 April 2016
Tolerance and democracy are not our European values
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Call for papers: Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today 06 April 2016
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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An Interview with Kiri Paramore, Author of Japanese Confucianism 24 March 2016
For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the...