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Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programmeNon-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective 18 February 2025
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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Call for Papers: The 12th Korean Screen Culture Conference (KSCC) 2025 CFPJune 30-July 1, Leiden University, the Netherlands 18 February 2025
The annual Korean Screen Culture Conference (KSCC) is dedicated to exploring all aspects of Korean screen culture, including television, K-pop, intern...
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Speed dating on Master’s Open Day: ‘What can you do with that master’s degree?’What to study? 17 February 2025Master’s Open Day on 14 February was the chance to fire off questions at master’s students and teaching staff or at alumni during a speed date. Almost...
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Lydia Boer wins incentive prize for bachelor's thesis14 February 2025History student Lydia Boer has won the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt incentive prize. She receives the prize for her bachelor’s thesis The marriag...
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Radio Palestine/Israel Challenging Preconceptions: ‘A courageous step in a polarised debate’14 February 2025The Israel-Palestine conflict regularly sparked intense debates in university lecturer Noa Schonmann's classes. She decided to start a podcast with jo...
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Now also in Indonesia: The butterflies of Boven-Digoel11 February 2025Three years ago, associate professor Alicia Schrikker published De vlinders van Boven-Digoel, in which she chronicled several stories about colonial l...
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The need to remember11 February 2025In the 1970s and 1980s, Argentina faced a severe dictatorship. The regime did not shy away from using brute force and torture. People who showed their...
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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’450 jaar 11 February 2025Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
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Step by Step to the Future: A Conversation Between Two Deans10 February 2025As one prepares for the final sprint, the other stands ready at the starting blocks: in just a few weeks, Dean Mark Rutgers will pass the baton to his...
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Sjef Barbiers new Managing Director of INT10 February 2025Professor Sjef Barbiers will be appointed Managing Director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) with effect from 1 September 2025. He will s...
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Call for Papers: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-185007 February 2025
Keynote speakers: Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo SUNY) and Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
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Sharing Digital Humanities Knowledge07 February 2025If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around,...
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’06 February 2025The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were in...
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New podcasts on Islam in South and Southeast Asia05 February 2025
As part of the final project for the Islam in South and Southeast Asia course (taught by Dr Verena Meyer), students were tasked with creating podcasts...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: February 202505 February 2025By the time you read this message, it will already be February. But since this is our first newsletter of the year, I still feel compelled to wish all...