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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare29 March 2022The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s s...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia21 March 2022Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’18 March 2022How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'17 March 2022Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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Call for Panels and Papers: "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional and International Perspectives"16 March 2022The Seventh European Congress on World and Global History, entitled "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional, and International Pers...
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A quick call about the war in Ukraine: ‘Did Putin underestimate his opponent?’08 March 2022The war in Ukraine has lasted almost two weeks now. What does Putin expect to achieve with his invasion and how big is the chance that the West will g...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science07 March 2022What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards17 February 2022Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independe...
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A quick call about Ukraine: 'Putin wants to be taken seriously'15 February 2022Suddenly there they were, the Russian soldiers near the border of Ukraine. Since then, reports of tensions between Russia on the one hand and the Unit...
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education15 February 2022Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti wer...
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Do you buy your partner chocolates and roses? Fascination for American holidays explained14 February 2022Buying chocolates as a sign of love, getting the best deals on Black Friday and putting on a spooky costume for Halloween. In recent years, these holi...
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund04 February 2022The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclu...
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today24 January 2022Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not g...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’18 January 2022As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden10 January 2022The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...