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Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe14 April 2026Rafal Matuszewski has been unanimously elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe.
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Karwan Fatah-Black appointed as UNESCO Chair holder13 April 2026Karwan Fatah-Black, a historian at Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities and senior researcher at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southea...
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organisedPhD defence 13 April 2026‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...
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Rafal Matuszewski receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardAward 09 April 2026Assistant professor Ancient History Rafal Matuszewski has been honored with the prestigious 2026 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alex...
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‘Materiality, Religion, and the Environment’: L*CeSAR’s second workshop31 March 2026On Thursday, the 19th of March 2026, students and staff had the chance to partake in the second full-day workshop organized by the Leiden Center for t...
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Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Selth winners of first H.S. Versnel PrizeAward 17 March 2026Master's students Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Snelth are the first winners of the H.S. Versnel Prize for best master's or research master's thesis in t...
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Carolien Stolte appointed visiting professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome16 March 2026Associate Professor Carolien Stolte has been appointed visiting professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Stolte will continue her ...
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‘Interaction between politics, science and colonial impact often overlooked’NWO grant 10 March 2026How did science relate to politics and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Assistant Professor Lauren Lauret has been aw...
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Call for Papers: Universities and Society at the End of Empire and Beyond (UniSoc)Workshop at the University of Birmingham | 23-24 June 2026 05 March 2026Based upon an academic partnership between the Universities of Birmingham in the UK and Leiden in the Netherlands, Universities and Society at the End...
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Joëlle Kraaijeveld wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize03 March 2026Joëlle Kraaijeveld has won the Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize for history with her master's thesis.
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Professor Marlou Schrover bids farewellInterview 02 March 2026Marlou Schrover played an important role in the study of migration history for many years. Now she is bidding farewell.
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Puck Rouffaer wins the Volkskrant-IISG thesis prize26 February 2026Puck Rouffaer has won the Volkskrant-IISG thesis prize with her master's thesis on psychiatrist Coen van Emde Boas. Leiden University student Nina Wit...
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Decolonisation at university: ‘There was a feeling that something new and positive was happening’Beurzen 24 February 2026Much research into the colonial past of scientific institutions stops as soon as a colony gains independence. In two new projects, university lecturer...
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COIn grant enables Leiden researchers to improve their research infrastructureCOIn grant 23 February 2026The COIn grants enable researchers to improve the infrastructure for their research. The four initiators of two projects explain how the grant has hel...
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New Visiting Professor for Central European Studies Saskia Jaszoltowski delivers talk about her work16 February 2026On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Professor Saskia Jaszoltowski, the new Visiting Professor for Central European Studies at Leiden University joined stud...