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Join the Humans of Humanities film premiere in Trianon!The humanities consist of various academic fields. But what is the common ground of all these different academics and students? And why does their wor...
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From energy transition to green infrastructure in The Hague: students and municipalities join forcesCan students help make our cities more sustainable and resilient? The Resilient Cities Hub thinks so: during its knowledge café on 16 January, passion...
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LUCDH awards Small Grant research funds for 2020The Leiden University Centre for the Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is delighted to announce this year's recipients of a Small Grant award. These awards t...
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Orpheus Instituut acquires prestigious library Ton KoopmanThe Orpheus Instituut acquires the prestigious library of Ton Koopman. The focus of the collection is 17th- and 18th-century music, its cultural conte...
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‘You end up in a completely different world’What did psychology student Jessie learn while working at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia? And why is Noman from Yemen now studying political sci...
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Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law 2020: Call for ApplicationsThe Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 14 June to 1...
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Colonisation and migration in New-AmericaMigration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Meijers prizes awardedOn Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers prizes were awarded for the best published article, of each faculty research programme, written by Assistant...
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SUPER MoRRI Annual event 2020: RRI across Europe: Exploring the science society interfaceOn January 29th, the first annual event of the SUPER MoRRI project will be held in the Lipsius building in Leiden and will be thematically organized a...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist viewsThe idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Martin van Hecke wins 2020 Dutch Physica AwardThe 2020 Physica Award has been awarded to physicist Martin van Hecke, a researcher at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) and the Amsterdam AMOLF....
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Archaeology students vlog at Castellum Hoge WoerdFor the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that...
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Recommendations from the Student Well-being TaskforceWe know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden Univers...
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Jeroen Touwen new Vice-Dean of HumanitiesJeroen Touwen has been appointed Vice-Dean and portfolio holder for bachelor’s programmes at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 January 2020...