News
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Call for papers: Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today 06 April 2016
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate 05 April 2016
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch S...
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‘We haven't finished with Tutankhamun's tomb yet' 31 March 2016
Sensational, is how Leiden Egyptologist Olaf Kaper described the discovery of two new chambers in the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun. He hopes that a sec...
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Upcoming exhibitions, residencies, concerts, record launches and lectures by PhDArts and docARTES researchers 29 March 2016
Activities of Nizar Rohana, Catalina Vicens, Andrea Stultiens, Shaya Feldman, Jack Segbars, Karen Lohrmann, Patrizia Bovi, Susan Williams, Giuliano Br...
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An Interview with Kiri Paramore, Author of Japanese Confucianism 24 March 2016
For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the...
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History and Linguistics in Leiden #19 and #28 in QS ranking 2016 22 March 2016
In QS’s World University Rankings of 2016, Leiden University’s History and Linguistics programme rank #19 and #28, respectively. This makes the Histor...
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Junius Symposium: exciting new research on Old Germanic studies 16 March 2016
While Old Germanic studies might seem dated and, regrettably, occupies a less than secure position in various academic institutions, exciting new rese...
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In memoriam: Professor Cees Fasseur 14 March 2016
It is with great sadness that Leiden University has learned of the death of Professor Cees Fasseur (11 December 1938–13 March 2016).
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Room for women in Senate Chamber 07 March 2016
For the duration of a month, the portraits of female professors only will hang in the Senate Chamber of Leiden University. This is the initiative of A...
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Upcoming exhibitions, residencies, concerts, record launches and lectures by PhDArts, docARTES and ACPA researchers 29 February 2016
Activities of Magda Dourado Pucci, Dick de Graaf, Henri Bok, Catalina Vicens, Patrizia Bovi, k.g. Guttman, Andrea Stultiens, and Lilo Nein
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Fulbright Archival Research Trip in New York (October 2015 – January 2016) 24 February 2016
Joris van den Tol spent three months doing archival research in Albany in the USA. Read on how he experienced his stay.
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Leiden, Delft and Erasmus to apply ‘big data’ for urban issues 09 February 2016
The new inter-university centre set up by Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam is to apply ‘big data’ r...
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Referendum in Bolivia: test for democracy 09 February 2016
The Bolivian people will make their opinion known on a change to the constitution in a referendum on 21 February. Leiden University organised a sympos...
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Dies Natalis: 'The big questions call for collaboration' 08 February 2016
Universities cannot survive in this highly competitive world without collaboration. And the ultimate aim is to make the world a safer and more sustain...
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NWO reports on VIDI project Erik Kwakkel 04 February 2016
In his VIDI project “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance” (2010-2015) Erik Kwakkel and his team studied...