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Volunteer for Peace and Justice!Work with the Leiden University team or festival partners 08 May 2025Are you passionate about peace, justice, and democracy, and keen to get involved in The Hague’s vibrant international community? This is your chance! ...
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Interview with Sarah Cramsey about her ERC grant24 April 2025Sarah Cramsey, Special Chair for Central European Studies and Assistant Professor of Judaism and Diaspora studies, recently received an ERC grant for ...
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Curious, not guided by role models: Kim Bonger appointed professor24 April 2025As of this month, Kim Bonger has been appointed Professor of Chemical Biology. As a first-generation academic, she’s especially grateful. ‘I wasn’t ex...
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Professorship marks the ticking off of an important milestone for Silvestriappointment 24 April 2025Alessandra Silvestri has been appointed professor in Theoretical Physics in the area of Cosmology. For her this promotion in Leiden is the icing on th...
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From Leiden to Harvard: four questions for Julia Santosfellowship 17 April 2025Eight early-career researchers from around the world have been awarded a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship – a prestigious opportunity for astronomers. Julia San...
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Anthropologist Erik de Maaker in Dutch newspaper on ‘isolated communities'09 April 2025A recent arrest of an American tourist who left a can of coke on North Sentinel Island has once again drawn attention to one of 'the world's most isol...
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Partnering Heritage with Latin America: Heritage Futures in the Age of Polycrises26 March 2025Crises today are multiple, ranging from geopolitical conflicts, accelerating climate change, growing inequality, technological disruptions, democratic...
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Farewell Niels Blokker: ‘Though the law faculty is changing, much remains the same.’13 March 2025One of our most engaged and expert scholars is bidding farewell. After forty years at Leiden Law School, first as a student and later as a professor, ...
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Jildau Bouwman new professor by special appointmentAppointment 11 March 2025Jildau Bouwman has been named as professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Remote Health Monitoring’ at Leiden University. The systems biologist ...
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In Memoriam Arne van der Gen06 March 2025On January 11, 2025, our esteemed colleague and emeritus professor Arne van der Gen passed away. Arne was a professor of Organic Chemistry from 1980 u...
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Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Young Academy of Europe03 March 2025Rafał Matuszewski has been elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) in recognition of his academic leadership and outstanding scientific ac...
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‘I feel everyone’s love and passion for the Hortus’13 February 2025As the father of a family with four children, he already visited the Hortus regularly. Now Tom Schreuder also comes there for his work. Every day he t...
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Pitching Heritage13 February 2025Do you want your research to fit the rubric of heritage? Is heritage a relevant concept here? These were some of the questions that came up in the liv...
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Thesis on homeless people's gendered experiences wins FSW Thesis Prize 202407 February 2025With her thesis 'Gendered Experiences and Homelessness Trajectories: An Anthropological Fieldwork Study in The Hague, the Netherlands', Elleke Schreur...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: February 202505 February 2025By the time you read this message, it will already be February. But since this is our first newsletter of the year, I still feel compelled to wish all...