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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education 29 November 2021
Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Trends in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’ 29 November 2021
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust 26 November 2021
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant 26 November 2021
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...
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The surprising tradition of fables in French education: 'It builds bridges between generations' 25 November 2021
In the Netherlands, people probably grew up with De Fabeltjeskrant (a children’s show, ed.), but in France an introduction to fables plays a much more...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award 23 November 2021
Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and...
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Janice McNab- Paul Brach Visiting Artist at CalArts 22 November 2021
On 16 November, Scottish artist and post-doctoral scholar at ACPA, Janice McNab was a visiting artist at the Paul Branch Visiting Artist Lecture Serie...
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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog 22 November 2021
The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Insp...
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam 18 November 2021
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of I...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Annemie Halsema appointed professor by special appointment: ‘I want to contribute to thinking about diversity 15 November 2021
The Institute for Philosophy further expands its knowledge: As of 1 September, Annemie Halsema holds the chair of Wijsgerige antropologie en de gronds...
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Marcel Cobussen receives Best Speaker Award 12 November 2021
On November 9, Marcel Cobussen received the Best Speaker Award of the 2021 Conference on Sound, Sound Studies, and Soundscaping.
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’ 11 November 2021
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Pol...
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Six top rated programmes at humanities 11 November 2021
The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguis...