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Prestigious Japanese Fukuoka Prize for Leonard Blussé 27 June 2019
Leonard Blussé, emeritus Professor in the History of European and Asian relations, will receive the prestigious Japanese Academic Fukuoka Prize. Bluss...
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Historian Jeroen Duindam receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first class 17 June 2019
On June 14th, Jeroen Duindam, Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities, was awarded an exceptionally high distinction for his achievements in...
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MA Translation awarded European Master’s in Translation label 07 June 2019
The MA Linguistic’s specialization in Translation has now been admitted to the prestigious European Masters in Translation (EMT) Network.
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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the Colony 03 June 2019
University lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. Th...
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Dorota Mokrosinska receives Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton 28 May 2019
Dorota Mokrosinska, University Lecturer of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy has been selected for a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty ...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers 23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW 23 April 2019
Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning 17 April 2019
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public i...
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Mark Westmoreland and Francesco Ragazzi receive a Seed Grant 20 March 2019
Dr. Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) and Dr. Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science) have b...
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Melody in speech. Vici grant for Yiya Chen 07 March 2019
Unlike Dutch and English, most languages employ melody not only to add nuance to sentences but also to differentiate between words. How languages do t...
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One million euros for research on migrant cultures in European Cities 07 March 2019
Dr. Sara Brandellero, expert in Lusophone literatures and cultures and member of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, will lead a res...
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Andrew Shield and Ann Marie Wilson receive seed grant for their project 'Transnational Gay/Lesbian Activism since the 1960s' 28 February 2019
Andrew DJ Shield (History) and Ann Marie Wilson (Leiden University College) have been awarded a seed grant for their project, “Transnational Gay/Lesbi...
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Early-modern vices: why are they still around? Vici grant for Herman Paul 26 February 2019
Over the past few hundreds of years, the world has changed radically. However, cultural stereotypes from the 17th century are still alive and well tod...
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Andrew Gawthorpe wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 09 January 2019
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded.
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Megan Griffiths wins Theodore Roosevelt American History Award for Master’s Thesis 07 January 2019
In 2018, Megan Griffiths, then a student of the MA North American Studies, won the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award for her master’s thesis ‘...