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Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi GermanyBook Launch 27 November 2025On Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network celebrated the launch of the book Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (T...
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The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’Student research 17 November 2025The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which or...
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Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz17 November 2025Congratulations to Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz, who have just won a Leiden University Global Seed Fund. Their proposed project entails 'Climate Talks...
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies15 November 2025On Friday, November 7, 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network together with the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) and the MA Program...
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking14 November 2025Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic...
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Bridging Disciplines: A Dead Sea Scrolls Study Day with Mladen Popović11 November 2025When asked about the mission of the Leiden Jewish Studies network, Jürgen Zangenberg, Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at Leiden Un...
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'The Pieterskerk has always defined Leiden's identity'PhD Defence 11 November 2025Ward Hoskens started ten years ago as an intern at one of Leiden's most iconic buildings: the Pieterskerk. Now he is doing his PhD on the question of ...
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Erasmus+ grant for virtual exchanges: 'We want to deliver ecologically aware global citizens'Erasmus+ grant 30 October 2025Professor Dario Fazzi has been organising virtual exchanges for students with various American universities for a number of years. Now he has been awa...
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What our experts have to say about the key issues in the Dutch electionsDutch elections 28 October 2025Is your strategic vote actually strategic? How can the Netherlands form a stable government? And what should the next government do about migration, d...
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargonPhD 23 October 2025Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ a...
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‘Irregular warfare is not going away, however much we’d like it to’Inaugural lecture 23 October 2025The fight against insurgents, guerrillas and resistance movements is an ‘incredibly unpopular’ topic with experts and military personnel, says Profess...
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Do’s and don’ts for an effective immigration policyDutch elections 17 October 2025Stopping people at the border does not result in less refugee migration, but providing relief in the region where migrants come from does. What else w...
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to GuadalajaraNWO grant 14 October 2025In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done wel...
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From market-driven thinking to ‘Build, build, build’: Leiden experts on the housing crisisPARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 14 October 2025The housing crisis is affecting a substantial group of Dutch citizens and is one of the main election themes this year. How did things get this far an...
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’14 October 2025His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy ...