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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines 03 January 2024
Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news 20 December 2023
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also ...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023 19 December 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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The battle over marriage in Indonesia 13 December 2023
The Indonesian government has been trying to enforce marriage and divorce laws for some time. These efforts are encountering resistance from both loca...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’ 12 December 2023
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’ 11 December 2023
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most 11 December 2023
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult...
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LCCP Research Seminar Program Spring 2024 06 December 2023
The seminar is dedicated to the research and work in progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcome...
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes 05 December 2023
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet. PhD candid...
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life 05 December 2023
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren o...
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Dubai climate summit: 'Virtually all funds are underfunded' 30 November 2023
Dubai is teeming with world leaders these days at the United Nations' annual climate conference. What can we expect? We look ahead with university lec...
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Call for Papers: 'Matrilineal Kerala: Investigations across Borders' 29 November 2023
In collaboration with: Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands & Mar Chrysostom Chair, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important' 27 November 2023
The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will ta...
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'The dancing body embodies its own form of knowledge' 27 November 2023
Suzan Tunca was the first dancer to receive her PhD from PhDArts at Leiden University. Her work focuses on the relationship between the physical and m...
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KNAW Early Career Awards for two Leiden researchers 21 November 2023
Young Leiden researchers Alisa van de Haar and Marleen Kunneman have received a KNAW Early Career Award. The prize, awarded annually for outstanding a...