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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorshipTen Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that ...
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NICA is moving to LeidenSince 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amster...
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Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic EmpireEmbedding Conquest: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, Leiden, 6-8 December 2021
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Call for papers: Expectations of justiceExpectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE). Leiden University, October 27-29, 2021
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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with eff...
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‘In these times you need all the help and connections you can get’Because they could really have used it during their own time as students. For many alumni, that’s their reason for signing up for the mentors network ...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and rewardA better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyThijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal H...
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaireRector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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‘We have to continue talking about a healthy work balance’The 2015 and 2018 Personnel monitors show that maintaining a good work balance remains difficult for staff at the Faculty of Humanities. Lecturer and ...
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution'A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Wash...
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‘It’s a complete stalemate in Belarus’What with coronavirus, the American elections and the Brexit botheration, we had almost forgotten that something miraculous happened in 2020: the repr...
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Call for Papers – Islam and EvolutionThe Leiden University Shii Studies Initiative (LUSSI) is hosting a two-day online conference on Islam and Evolution.
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Stage for the HumanitiesIn 2022, for one year, Leiden will be European City of Science. For humanities scholars, this offers enormous opportunities to bring their work to the...
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‘Do not only focus on impact on the outside, but also on the inside’For Sybille Lammes, professor of New Media and Digital Culture, corona offers a whole new perspective on her research into play. Digital media may hav...