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How can academics be supported in the face of threats on social media?15 February 2021'Academics who share their knowledge with the outside world on social media are often insulted or even threatened. Especially female academics and aca...
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Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history04 February 2021Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background ...
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Podcast - UNDER/CITY/SOUND: The Hague in time of quarantine03 February 2021Guy Livingston’s five-episode sound-art podcast UNDER/CITY/SOUND brings together people with different backgrounds from all over The Hague to share th...
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship22 January 2021Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that ...
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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’19 January 2021Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with eff...
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Stage for the Humanities06 January 2021In 2022, for one year, Leiden will be European City of Science. For humanities scholars, this offers enormous opportunities to bring their work to the...
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‘Do not only focus on impact on the outside, but also on the inside’21 December 2020For Sybille Lammes, professor of New Media and Digital Culture, corona offers a whole new perspective on her research into play. Digital media may hav...
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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’16 December 2020Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Gee...
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Lawyers often too rigid about looted art15 December 2020Law researcher Evelien Campfens is calling for a better legal treatment of looted art. ‘For lawyers, ownership is a very absolute concept. There is on...
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Podcast- Outside the MusicBox07 December 2020
A podcast about classical music featuring interviews with guest musicians about music they love. Come hang out with Emma and Chloe, creators of MusicB...
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‘Academic research necessary to highlight and improve the circumstances of journalists under threat’03 December 2020Jaap de Jong, Professor of Journalism and New Media, is one of the organisers of the Academic Conference (9 December) as part of the World Press Freed...
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!11 November 2020Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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What the refugee crisis teaches us about human connection09 November 2020What if a major world event alters the trajectory of your research project? Tsolin Nalbantian was studying citizenship along the Turkish-Syrian border...
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We can no longer look at the world as ‘the West and the rest’06 November 2020Art historian and professor Kitty Zijlmans is on a mission: she wants to get rid of the notion that the West dominates the art world. To no longer put...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of language26 October 2020On 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...