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Plastic Soup Surfer calls for sustainable academic year04 September 2017One person can already make a difference, and if all students and academics were eco-friendly, the world would be a much more sustainable place. Plast...
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Poems in sign language04 September 2017Will Leiden be the first city to have wall poems in sign language? It will, if sign language researcher Victoria Nyst has her way. She recently starte...
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubble27 June 2017The 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades alread...
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Exhibition of fieldwork photographs30 May 2017Fieldwork photographs of Meike de Goede, Catherina Wilson and Mirjam de Bruijn (with African Studies student Vera Bakker) have been selected for the L...
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LUCIS funding continued from 2018-202030 May 2017We are delighted to announce that the funding of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will be continued from 2018 u...
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Travelling Caribbean heritage under the microscope24 May 2017What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question tog...
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean16 May 2017On 15 May, the ambassadors of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries were shown the highlights of research at Leiden University Faculty of Science....
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Three Leiden professors appointed members of KNAW10 May 2017The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 26 new members. Three of them are Leiden professors: Luuk de Ligt, Lisa Cheng ...
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Ideas from bachelor's students sought after by government and businesses09 May 2017In their third year, students of International Studies get their teeth into difficult issues put forward by government and businesses such as Unilever...
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How Leiden University reopened after the war01 May 2017Students were able to continue their studies in September 1945 after the University had been closed for several years during the Second World War. Thi...
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Partnership with Roosevelt Institute gives impetus to American Studies18 April 2017It's easier to understand Trump's America if you have a sound knowledge of the country's history. Research on the US has been given an impetus with t...
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Wanted: artists, scientists and all creatives in between30 March 2017On 16 September 2017 the fifth edition of the Night of Arts & Sciences will take place in the city of Leiden. This is your chance to showcase your own...
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A Leidener in Africa20 March 2017MA student African Studies Eline Sleurink is currently on an internship in Accra, the capital of Ghana. She’s sharing her adventures on The Leidener, ...
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Women on the agenda in Leiden09 March 2017Women are are on the agenda again at Leiden University. That was clear on 8 March in the Academy Building. First there was an informal get-together wi...
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 201708 March 2017History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...