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More than just blue domes and camels: new Louvre film on Uzbek artefacts 19 December 2022
Terracotta pottery, precious ikat fabrics and the bazaars where these goods are sold: all these can be seen in a new Louvre film premiering on Friday ...
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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray 19 December 2022
Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories 19 December 2022
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in' 15 December 2022
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic s...
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New step in development of Humanities Campus: Urban development plan available for viewing 14 December 2022
Leiden University has designed a new Urban Development Plan for the Humanities Campus. This plan incorporates participation from the immediate environ...
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Call for applications: PhD programme in visual art and design • PhDArts 14 December 2022
PhD programme PhDArts is looking for new applicants!
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ACPA PhD Yannis Patoukas releases debut album 'Jammed' 14 December 2022
'Jammed' is released as a limited edition with music composed, recorded and mixed in the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatoire, The Hague) betwee...
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New solo CD 'Dialogue' by ACPA alumna Kathryn Cok 13 December 2022
ACPA alumna Kathryn Cok recently released a new solo CD Dialogue, showcasing repertoire by Buxtehude and J.S. Bach, performed on the harpsichord.
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’ 13 December 2022
Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1...
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard' 08 December 2022
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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Independent research into House of Orange-Nassau and Dutch colonial history 06 December 2022
King Willem-Alexander has commissioned independent research into the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The research will t...
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated 06 December 2022
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing ...
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' 06 December 2022
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversit...
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds' 05 December 2022
We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration t...