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First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden04 July 2025On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Ams...
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’Interview 26 June 2025How did people in the past deal with change? And how did such change influence personal and collective identities? For her research on these questions...
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From horror to silence that speaks volumes: Leiden researches emotions at Lowlands23 June 2025This summer, Leiden University will be setting up camp at Lowlands with two research projects. From a spine-chilling haunted house to a silent perform...
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Adolescence: Sexual Becoming in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives19 June 2025On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam — home to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) — hosted an interdisciplinar...
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Damaged by Disgrace: report on involuntary relinquishment and adoption of babies in the Netherlands19 June 2025For decades, unmarried girls and women in the Netherlands were forced to give up their newborn children. The impact was profound and persists to this ...
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Africa Thesis Award for Baleseng Maeneche18 June 2025Baleseng Maeneche (University of the Western Cape) has won the Africa Thesis Award 2024 with a master's thesis on media representation of male perpetr...
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Religious Studies students combat loneliness: ‘Simply acknowledging the complexity helps’18 June 2025Last semester, bachelor’s students in Religious Studies spent a lot of time in community centres in Leiden. The reason: field research into loneliness...
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“Hope springs eternal”: Protest and social movements in the NetherlandsKIEM grant 05 June 2025Mariska Jung (FGGA), Looi van Kessel (FGW), and Jasmijn Rana (FSW) have received a KIEM grant of €10,000 together with the Institute for Social Justic...
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Migration scholar Katharina Natter wins Gratama Science PrizePolitical science 16 May 2025For her research into migration policy under different political regimes, Katharina Natter has been awarded the Gratama Science Prize for young, talen...
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Leaving the National Museum of Antiquities after forty years: ‘I will be taking a gap year first’13 May 2025On 14 May, curator and professor Ruurd Halbertsma will be leaving the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) after forty years of dedicated service. In ...
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Live: protest in Wijnhaven building Leiden University06 May 2025Around 1:00 p.m., a group of more than one hundred pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the The Hague campus. Participants chanted slogans and put u...
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The new pope: militant or mediator?Conclave 06 May 2025In these times of political tensions and ethical dilemmas, the cardinals need to choose what kind of pope the Catholic Church needs. We asked religiou...
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School of Democracy 2025taking a dive into politics 01 May 2025
The ‘School of Democracy’ is an initiative of several Dutch political foundations to reach out to young Morrocans, to support and motivate them to str...
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Webinar: The Fading Role of Public Health in Air Quality Management: Insights from Morocco01 May 2025
Globalsmog Seminar Series #7 Morocco
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Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden24 April 2025On the eve of World War II, Leiden was home to the largest Indonesian student community in the Netherlands. Many of these students joined the resistan...