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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics12 August 2019Academic 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 academics01 August 2019Researchers 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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Tim Meijers receives a Veni for research into obligations to future generations23 July 2019What 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 dilemmas22 July 2019Primary-school teachers who aren’t Muslim themselves but do have Muslim children in their class sometimes face dilemmas and cultural or religious diff...
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities17 July 2019No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...
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The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy04 July 2019To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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From (no) sex in Japan to environmental policy: ICAS 11 is coming to town26 June 2019The walls of Paul van der Velde’s study at the International Institute for Asian Studies are full of neat rows of post-it notes. As organiser in chief...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future19 June 2019Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Member of Parliament Tielen (VVD) visits the Faculty of Humanities03 June 2019Asia, Asia, Asia. That was what the working visit of VVD Member of Parliament Judith Tielen - at her request - was all about. In a two hour long progr...
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'It is important to have discussions about topics that not everybody agrees on'29 May 2019Today Mikhail Khordorkovsky visits the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time ...
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Refugees build a new future in Leiden27 May 2019Solafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leid...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at Museon23 May 2019The international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Timeline Humanities: 444 years back in time21 May 2019What better place to look back at 444 years of Leiden University than at the faculty where we actually study our history? To celebrate this special ye...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’16 May 2019Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’