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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor 01 October 2019
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’ 26 September 2019
The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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‘An inclusive university begins with which books you choose’ 24 September 2019
Sociologist Aya Ezawa is the new Diversity Officer at Leiden University. What is the University doing well and what could it do better? ‘It’s taken mu...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament 24 September 2019
‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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Scholar at Risk Lety Elvir Lazo: ‘My university intimidated me too’ 23 September 2019
The proceeds of the Leiden University Science Run on 28 September will go to Scholars at Risk, a section of the UAF that assists refugee scholars. One...
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Exhibition puts ‘forgotten’ part of the Silk Road in the spotlight 04 September 2019
The story of the iconic Silk Road is often told from the Chinese perspective. An exhibition at Oude UB focuses on the inhabitants and monuments of his...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans 02 September 2019
Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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A Persian love story and the creation of a rock classic 23 August 2019
What is the name of the medieval Persian poet Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) doing on the cover of an Eric Clapton rock album? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, associate pro...
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Students from all corners of the world 21 August 2019
Callum is from Ireland, Sharitah is from The Hague and Kirsten is from Manilla. The new students taking part in the HOP week from 19 to 23 August come...
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Playing Cluedo with speech sounds 15 August 2019
Using speech analysis to resolve crimes. That's what Meike de Boer (26) is aiming to do with her PhD research. 'By analysing how a person pronounces "...
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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics 12 August 2019
Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary sch...
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First pan-African summer school for deaf academics 01 August 2019
Researchers from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the University of Ghana are organising the first-ever pan-African summer scho...
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Marina Calculli on RaiNews 24: Rising Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz 26 July 2019
Commenting live on the Italian TV RaiNews 24, Marina Calculli (LIAS) suggested to view the recent escalation between the United States and Iran as the...
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Tim Meijers receives a Veni for research into obligations to future generations 23 July 2019
What do we owe to future generations? And how do we fairly share the costs of complying with these obligations , knowing that the world is full of ine...
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Course helps primary-school teachers with Islam-related dilemmas 22 July 2019
Primary-school teachers who aren’t Muslim themselves but do have Muslim children in their class sometimes face dilemmas and cultural or religious diff...