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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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‘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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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...
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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy 29 February 2024
Western civil servants openly struggle at times with their own government’s policies on the war in Gaza. In protest, civil servants in various countri...
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages' 29 February 2024
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother La...
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation 20 February 2024
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024
‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy 01 February 2024
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
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Old/New Histories that Continue to Matter: M.A. History Students use Leiden Austria Centre programming as they study the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe 30 January 2024
Nearly eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, we continue to learn more about how the Holocaust “happened” in central and eastern Europe. In...
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art 23 January 2024
The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Kors...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where' 18 January 2024
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...