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‘If we invest in getting to know one another, living together can be so wonderful.’ — LDE white paper22 June 2026In the new white paper by Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities, diversity researchers and professionals share practical insights into diversity dilemmas....
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Queen Máxima visits KITLV: from climate change to colonial collections175th anniversary of KITLV 26 May 2026How can countries in Asia and the Caribbean protect themselves from rising sea levels? What should be done with colonial collections? During a visit o...
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From medieval pigs to cathedrals and chronicles: the Leiden Medievalists Blog reaches its 200th article19 May 2026For almost nine years, the Leiden Medievalists Blog has been one of the university’s most widely read blogs. Its 200th article was published recently....
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Aholi So, one of the new Faces of Science: ‘I want to show what it means to be a researcher’19 May 2026Lecturer and PhD candidate Aholi So is one of the KNAW’s new Faces of Science. By offering a glimpse into his life as a young scientist, he hopes to i...
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Podcasts for Whitsun18 May 2026Fancy listening to a podcast over the long Whitsun weekend? Over the past few months, some excellent work has once again been produced at the faculty.
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'Trust in polarised times': The launch of a sustainable and substantive research networkResearch 12 May 2026For the university-wide theme ‘Trust in polarised times’, researchers from Leiden and The Hague are joining forces. On Friday 5 June, the theme will b...
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Internist-infectiologist Meta Roestenberg and Arabist Petra Sijpesteijn elected as members of KNAWRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 07 May 2026The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected 16 new members, including two academics from Leiden. Internist-infectiologist ...
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School of Democracy 2026The basics of Democracy, Storytelling and messaging 15 April 2026
The School of Democracy is an initiative of several Dutch political foundations aimed at engaging and empowering young people who are eager to strengt...
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies13 April 2026“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter ...
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organisedPhD defence 13 April 2026‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...
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Yung Lin receives Young Scholar Award 202613 April 2026Researcher Yung Lin received the Young Scholar Award at the annual conference of the European Association for Taiwan Studies (EATS). She obtained her ...
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LUCL to start working with Macroscope: ‘One place filled with datasets and tools’31 March 2026Over the coming years, LUCL will be collaborating on the development of Macroscope, a new scientific infrastructure that maps social change at the pop...
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Master's students organise graduate conference ‘Who is Asian?’19 March 2026Master's students Adam El Amraoui, Eesha Sheel, Frieda Chen and Lawrence Kurowski are organising a graduate conference. On March 26, students will gat...
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A platform for a complex conflict: ‘Friction is good’17 February 2026Yousef Sweid was called a ‘stinking Arab’ in the sandpit at his Jewish kindergarten in Haifa. In a packed lecture hall, the Palestinian-Israeli actor ...
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Researchers crack the rules of unknown board game from the Roman period10 February 2026Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this...