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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference - Call for Papers 20 April 2022
This is a call for papers for the upcoming tenth issue of the Journal of the Lucas Graduate Conference (JLGC), intended to be published by the end of ...
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past? 19 April 2022
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language ...
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants 14 April 2022
Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Researc...
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022! 13 April 2022
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch 11 April 2022
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran? 11 April 2022
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Towards a more diverse diversity policy: NWA subsidy for ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ project 08 April 2022
The ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ research project is to receive a subsidy of 1.8 million euros from the National Research Agenda (NWA). Coordinator Marlou ...
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens 07 April 2022
A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn...
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience 07 April 2022
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge...
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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award 07 April 2022
Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of ...
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Ten lessons on making an impact: ‘What dilemmas will you face?’ 04 April 2022
In the booklet ‘Research with Windows Wide Open’, eight professors in the social sciences and humanities advise colleagues who want to make an impact ...
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’ 01 April 2022
The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Com...
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature 30 March 2022
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of ma...