News
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Call for statements of interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective" 16 April 2024
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’ 16 April 2024
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Dieg...
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How AI helps map sign languages 15 April 2024
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...
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Andries Hiskes: 'The disabled body is too often ignored’ 15 April 2024
Bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. For his PhD, Andries Hiskes researched the disabled body and the reactions it can bring.
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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How live bloggers balance speed and credibility 28 March 2024
PhD candidate Sebastiaan van de Lubben has written live blogs about Leiden politics. But how do you go about covering an event while it unfolds? ‘You ...
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’ 25 March 2024
This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks 21 March 2024
The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students...
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Call for applications: Aspasia Travel Grant 20 March 2024
Travel grant call for applications open to people who were identified as female at birth or who identify as female at the time of application for exte...
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages 12 March 2024
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Afric...
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’ 11 March 2024
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that mo...
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Liselore Tissen appointed ambassador for network of congress ambassadors 08 March 2024
External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen has been appointed ambassador for Leiden City of Science. As the youngest member and the only non-professor in ...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play 05 March 2024
A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco 05 March 2024
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (Nimar) in Rabat at the end of February. For a whole host of disciplines...