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Existential Risk in the AnthropoceneA Collaborative Syllabus for An Upper-Level Undergraduate Class 14 July 2026Thanks to a 2025 Una Europa KIEM Grant and building on earlier conversations about existential risk, Leiden researchers Rob Cullum and Maud Rijks orga...
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Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombEgyptology 14 July 2026A team of Dutch archaeologists headed by Carina van den Hoven from Leiden University has discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb in Egypt. The tomb sheds new...
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Workshop ‘Geopolitics in Europe and the World’ marks start of interfaculty theme13 July 2026Leiden researchers from law, political science, governance and global affairs and humanities gathered for the first workshop organized in the context ...
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Academia meets Policy Workshop on 'Netherlands–Africa Relations in a Fragmenting World Order'07 July 2026On 26 May 2026, two colleagues from the Institute for History participated in an “Academia meets Policy” workshop organised by the Ministry of Foreign...
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Elizabeth I did not just have the heart and stomach of a man – in her letters, she commanded his bile, tooPhD defence 06 July 2026Queen Elizabeth I left behind more than three thousand letters upon her death. Whilst historians have so far focused primarily on the hundred or so wr...
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New interior visualisations of Aleida Nijland06 July 2026Earlier this year, design studio Studio Linse presented the preliminary interior design for the renovated Aleida Nijland building. The design reflects...
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The forgotten deaths of fifteen Chinese workers during the Second World WarNWO XS grant 02 July 2026On 15 April 1942, members of the Dutch military police on Curaçao shot and killed fifteen Chinese Shell workers. Assistant Professor Vincent Chang has...
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News shaped the seventeenth-century Atlantic worldBook 30 June 2026When people think of Atlantic trade, they often think of sugar, tobacco and cotton. However, there was something else of crucial importance on board s...
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Utrecht’s buried treasures: Roman boats along the old Rhine29 June 2026Students and staff from the Ancient History department recently visited Utrecht for the fifth annual study trip, combining a museum visit with a boat ...
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Students tackle the issue of a sense of purpose among young peopleLearning with the city 25 June 2026How can community organisations strengthen the sense of purpose among young people in Leiden? Students of Religious Studies undertook this project on ...
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Gaining insight through listening: ‘Creole languages should be taken seriously’Research 23 June 2026Creole languages have long had a bad reputation. They were thought to be simpler than other languages and therefore less worthy of study. Lecturer Ben...
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‘If we invest in getting to know one another, living together can be so wonderful.’ - LDE white paper22 June 2026In the new white paper by Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities, diversity researchers and professionals share practical insights into diversity dilemmas....
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Call for Papers: Political Orality in Premodern and Modern Europe (and Beyond)International workshop at Leiden University | 18-19 March 2027 19 June 2026How did political actors speak when confronted with perceived threats to the existing order? And how did such speech, in turn, shape political outcome...
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Two professors of the Hebrew bible offered a seminar “The Biblical Covenant and its Afterlife” sponsored by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network18 June 2026The covenant arguably constitutes the core of biblical tradition: the Noachide covenant; the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Mosaic coven...
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Prof. Stephen Russell meets with the CareCentury Team to discuss “Maternal Care in the Ancient Near East”18 June 2026Recently, Prof. Stephen Russell (John Jay College, City College New York), a historian of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East gave a special se...