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From archaeologist to chatelaineMarijke Brouwer started as an archaeologist, excavating Iron Age settlements in the Dutch polder regions. Today she is the director of medieval Huis B...
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Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special CollectionsSpecial visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library
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LeidenGlobal course for Research Master's students and PhD candidates
LeidenGlobal course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’
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A unique perspective on (pre)historical migration using linguisticsMigration is not only reflected in DNA, but also in language. By tracing changes in language, we learn more about the lifestyle of the people that spe...
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Lara Weiss: ‘Egypt is not just pyramids and mummies’Egyptologist Lara Weiss is curator at The National Museum of Antiquities and has been leading the VIDI research project 'Walking Dead' since 2017. The...
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Relatively large number of female professors at Leiden UniversityLeiden has the second-highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities. These are the results of the annual Women Professors Moni...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young AcademyHistorian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documentsNadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English m...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchersThe European Research Council has awarded ERC Consolidator Grants to four researchers from Leiden. These grants of up to 2m euros will enable them to ...
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Webinar Week: reaching out to prospective master's studentsNot all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, ...
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‘Everyone wants to discover the person behind the artist’Artist Marlene Dumas gave the 48th Huizinga Lecture to a packed Pieterskerk on 6 December. She spoke about her own background, and why you can’t assum...
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in t...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg MunichBernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...
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Cuneiform reveals shared birthplaceAssyriologists in Leiden have been conducting research into ancient clay tablets from the Middle East for 100 years already. What exactly do these cla...
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Renovation Lipsius buildingAs of now, a lot of renovations are taking place in the Lipsius building. By the summer of 2020, 23 lecture halls should be completed in this building...