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Reflections after the "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference - Nasreen Javanjoo shares her insights21 November 2025The "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference, organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, hosted many talented young researchers alongside esta...
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Shepherd dogs, sanctions and Instagram algorithms: Three days in the EU’s capital19 November 2025At the end of October the students of MA International Relations: European Union Studies once again made the journey to Brussels for three days of beh...
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Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Yanise Zijlstra make short film: 'Intangible heritage you can't put into words'Impact Explorer grant 18 November 2025University lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven was to be a guest in one podcast by culture maker and anthropologist Yanise Zijlstra on intangible heritag...
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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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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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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk speaks about her presentation and experience of the "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference14 November 2025In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish St...
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Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)14 November 2025We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden betwe...
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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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Aya Ezawa honoured for volunteer work with Japanese-Indonesian war children: 'Recognition of the importance of reconciliation'Japanese award 10 November 2025University lecturer Aya Ezawa has received a Certificate of Commendation from the Japanese Embassy in the Netherlands for her efforts to promote recon...
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’Inaugural lecture 07 November 2025Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, e...
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'Research 06 November 2025In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases i...
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Gabrielle van den Berg: "We can raise our profile"Appointment 04 November 2025Gabrielle van den Berg became the Academic Director of LIAS on 1 September 2025: “I hope I’ll be able to make a real difference.”
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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...