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Rachel Schats joins Leiden Teachers Academy: ‘I am always trying to look for ways to make teaching stick better' 24 September 2021
The Leiden Teachers Academy (LTA) was founded to help collaboration between excellent teachers. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats has been one of th...
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New courses on 'Violence' 01 September 2021
In the academic year 2021-2022 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer two courses for interested students who are e...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’ 17 August 2021
Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago 20 July 2021
Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much ...
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’ 15 July 2021
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights ...
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona 02 July 2021
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair wou...
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Network on Greek Sanctuaries Leads to New Perspectives on Antiquity 23 June 2021
A group of experts on ancient Greek religious practices has joined forces in the form of the HIERON network. In a grassroots fashion, they decided to ...
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Psychology lab embraces open science 14 June 2021
‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...
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The wisdom of the Nahua 10 June 2021
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philoso...
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Medieval Oegstgeest did business with all of Europe 08 June 2021
Generations of Leiden students and academics have done archaeological research into the early medieval history of Oegstgeest. This makes this old sett...
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How to start with Open Science: ‘It has increased my workflow efficiency enormously’ 02 June 2021
Bjørn Peare Bartholdy is Archaeology’s representative in the Open Science Community Leiden (OSCL) . We spoke with him about the value of Open Science ...
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Heritage expert Martin Berger honored as a member of the Young Academy Leiden 27 May 2021
Our own Dr. Martin Berger has been accepted as a member of the Young Academy Leiden! He is thrilled with his appointment. ‘I am honored to be accepted...
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Starting grant for the investigation of the forgotten landscapes of World War II 25 May 2021
PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on...
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Caribbean archaeology in times of corona: ‘Instead of fieldwork, our students worked on an online exhibition’ 25 May 2021
Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both th...
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Leiden students give commentary on games live on Twitch 17 May 2021
Three Leiden students will be sharing their knowledge of history while playing video games. The livestreams are part of the ‘Streaming the Past’ proj...