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Project LAWKI (Life As We Know It) by the collective ARK / Roosje Klap winner Gouden Kalf 2022 06 October 2022
Project LAWKI (Life As We Know It) by PhDArts candidate Roosje Klap (ARK) won a Gouden Kalf Award 2022 for the Best Digital Cultural Production.
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Translation Award for Anne Sytske Keijser, Mark Leenhouts, and Silvia Marijnissen 04 October 2022
Anne Sytske Keijser, Mark Leenhouts, and Silvia Marijnissen have won the 2022 FILTER Translation Award for De droom van de rode kamer
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022
Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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Dutch people should stop ‘politely’ switching to English 26 September 2022
Endangered languages can survive if they are taught properly to new speakers, such as people with a migrant background. This is what Professor by Spec...
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Critical of the risks: research into the experiences of military observers 20 September 2022
For his PhD, historian and army major Dion Landstra researched the effectiveness of observers in peace operations in the Balkans between 1991 and 1995...
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Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’ 13 September 2022
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard wor...
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Astrid Van Weyenberg wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2022 12 September 2022
University lecturer Astrid Van Weyenberg has won the Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize. ‘Astrid is a lovely person who can teach well.'
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 23 August 2022
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL), one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France, has elected professor Petra Sij...
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize! 21 August 2022
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lec...
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects 11 August 2022
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and fo...
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ 28 July 2022
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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‘Liberal American foreign policy was always entangled with illiberal interests’ 25 July 2022
American foreign policy in the period after the Second World War is often characterised as liberal. This is, however, not the full picture, argues uni...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships 20 July 2022
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants 14 July 2022
Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanitie...
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Newscheckers wins European Citizen Award 07 July 2022
The fact-checking initiative Nieuwscheckers has won the Dutch round of the European Citizens Award. This prize is awarded annually to projects and ini...