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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021 08 December 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christian...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education 29 November 2021
Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award 23 November 2021
Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and...
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Marcel Cobussen receives Best Speaker Award 12 November 2021
On November 9, Marcel Cobussen received the Best Speaker Award of the 2021 Conference on Sound, Sound Studies, and Soundscaping.
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 11 November 2021
Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize 08 November 2021
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanq...
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society 14 October 2021
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan v...
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Aline-Priscillia and Ruşen nominated for an ECHO Award 14 October 2021
Working towards a more inclusive and diverse society, next to your studies. Humanities students Aline-Priscillia Messi and Ruşen Koç devote a consider...
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Rubicon grant for four Leiden researchers 04 October 2021
Four promising young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable th...
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Andrea Cortellari wins the best MA thesis prize in Turkish Studies 18 August 2021
Andrea Cortellari, a 2020 graduate of the MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, wins the best MA thesis prize...
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NWO grant for PhD-project Frederique Visser 05 August 2021
Frederique Visser, winner of the Foundation’s 2020 Mr. Hugo Weiland Thesis, has been awarded a NWO grant to support her PhD-project 'Rhythms and Ruptu...
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These are the nominees for the Faculty Teaching Prize 2021 30 July 2021
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students and a jury decides who will receive the p...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Hossam Ahmed receives Comenius teaching grant for Digital Humanities track 28 June 2021
A better integration of Digital Humanities into study programmes, so that students develop their digital skills as well as possible. That is what Hoss...
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs 25 June 2021
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Langu...