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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues 05 December 2022
That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body) 05 December 2022
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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Publication: Engaging with Everyday Sounds by Marcel Cobussen 01 December 2022
'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, e...
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’ 28 November 2022
As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey,...
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Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding' 25 November 2022
What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wen...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa 25 November 2022
‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia 25 November 2022
A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...
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Alumnus Simone participating in National ThinkTank: ‘A good imagination is essential’ 25 November 2022
Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film...
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database 25 November 2022
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Facu...
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023 24 November 2022
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for su...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history 24 November 2022
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities 24 November 2022
Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Lan...
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century 22 November 2022
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st centu...
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Humanities Campus update: Doelengracht participation process complete 22 November 2022
The third and final participation session was held on 20 September; the evening was attended by local residents, business owners, students and other s...
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Six Leiden researchers receive ERC Starting Grant 22 November 2022
Six researchers from Leiden University have received an ERC starting grant. This grant of on average 1.5m euros will enable the researchers to launch ...