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What drives anti-immigrant sentiment among youths in Ecuador?31 January 2022Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan...
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Indonesian resistance hero and Leiden student Irawan Soejono is given a face28 January 2022To mark its 75th anniversary, the Netherlands War Graves Foundation is publishing a portrait of a war victim every week this year. On 24 January the d...
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care28 January 2022What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? ...
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education26 January 2022During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural ...
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New release: The Pied Piper Of Hamelin And Other Melodramas25 January 2022Jed Wentz realized a unique concept: 19-th century melodramas for voice and piano.
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Space Station Art Gallery25 January 2022An artwork by Guy Livingston has been chosen to launch into space and be exhibited on the International Space Station.
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The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen appoints Joost Grootens as Professor of Artistic Research in Visual Design24 January 2022We congratulate Joost Grootens with joining the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen as a professor of artistic research in visual design.
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In Memoriam - Bas Edixhoven19 January 2022On January 16, 2022, our respected and beloved colleague Prof. dr. Bas Edixhoven passed away after a short period of serious illness.
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Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 - Online Exhibition18 January 2022Starting January 18, the online exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 can be viewed via the UBL website. The exhibition i...
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NUFFIC awards Van Vollenhoven Institute grant to train Indonesian law lecturers in socio-legal approaches11 January 2022NUFFIC’s Orange Knowledge programme, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, awarded a grant to the proposal of Jacqueline Vel, Adriaan Bedner and ...
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Leiden University strengthens its focus on Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry with seven new group leaders31 December 2021Tackling key challenges of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry to aid drug discovery is one of the focus areas of Leiden University. To this end,...
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Leiden University student attends Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony22 December 2021Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the...
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Colonial Bureaucrats, the Metropole and the making of the 1875 East Indies’ Land Alienation Prohibition20 December 2021On Thursday 9 December, Dr Upik Djalins presented an online lecture, entitled 'The Colonial Bureaucratic Network versus the Metropole: The Origin Stor...
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2021: This was the year of our faculty17 December 20212021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus e...
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Davy de Witt: ‘I have really made this into my own place’15 December 2021‘To be honest, I don’t really care about what type of research is going on. Just let me do my own thing and everything is fine,’ according to biotechn...