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Students meet potential employers at Career Events in Leiden and The Hague23 April 2026On Wednesday 15 April, two career events for students took place: the Humanities Career Event in Leiden and the Job Fair in The Hague. Together, these...
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Alumni meet in Brussels: ‘Contributing to the values of the future with Leiden building blocks’21 April 2026As many as 180 Leiden University alumni met in Brussels last week. A young, diverse and international group, they listened attentively to speeches by ...
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(s)Tattoo sets up shop at FGWSocial safety 16 April 2026What happens when you ask students and staff how they’re really doing? On Tuesday 14 April, FGW members were able to share what was on their minds at ...
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Anna van Ark is doing an internship at the Rijksmuseum: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a curator’16 April 2026Master’s student Anna van Ark has landed her dream internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. For three months, she’ll be shadowing the curator and c...
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School of Democracy 2026The basics of Democracy, Storytelling and messaging 15 April 2026
The School of Democracy is an initiative of several Dutch political foundations aimed at engaging and empowering young people who are eager to strengt...
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Dr Jake Benson wins J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award15 April 2026Dr Jake Benson, who completed his PhD in Persian Studies at Leiden University in 2024, has been awarded a prestigious international prize for the best...
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Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe14 April 2026Rafal Matuszewski has been unanimously elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe.
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies13 April 2026“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter ...
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Karwan Fatah-Black appointed as UNESCO Chair holder13 April 2026Karwan Fatah-Black, a historian at Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities and senior researcher at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southea...
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organisedPhD defence 13 April 2026‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...
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Yung Lin receives Young Scholar Award 202613 April 2026Researcher Yung Lin received the Young Scholar Award at the annual conference of the European Association for Taiwan Studies (EATS). She obtained her ...
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In Memoriam Ton Anbeek (1944-2026)10 April 2026On Easter Monday, the spring holiday that commemorates and celebrates returning life, A.G.H. Anbeek van der Meijden passed away. From 1982 to 2005 he ...
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Rafal Matuszewski receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardAward 09 April 2026Assistant professor Ancient History Rafal Matuszewski has been honored with the prestigious 2026 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alex...
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‘Learning languages opens up your perspective of life’ - Wessam Semida on learning Arabic at the Academic Language Centre02 April 2026Why would someone choose to learn a language like Arabic? For Wessam Semida, teacher at the Academic Language Centre (ATC), the answer goes far beyond...
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‘Materiality, Religion, and the Environment’: L*CeSAR’s second workshop31 March 2026On Thursday, the 19th of March 2026, students and staff had the chance to partake in the second full-day workshop organized by the Leiden Center for t...