News
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Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great' 05 July 2024
The History programme has been working for several years to make the curriculum more diverse and inclusive. With a Comenius grant, university lecturer...
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Death and the Digital Realm 02 July 2024
Event co-sponsored by the IAPDD, Leiden University, and the Australian Research Council project “Digital Death and Immortality”
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’ 02 July 2024
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circul...
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Documentation of International Symposium What Methods Do 28 June 2024
The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination...
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Connecting the Doelen complex to the Thermal Energy Storage in 2025 27 June 2024
Leiden University is working hard to make its buildings more sustainable, also on the Humanities Campus. An important step in this context is the cons...
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Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems 27 June 2024
The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes ...
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’ 25 June 2024
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except ...
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Out now! LEAP # 4: Subject: Matter 21 June 2024
The editorial board of the Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) is proud to announce the release of the fourth edition, titled “Subject: Matter”!
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means 20 June 2024
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does i...
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New interview series PARC: composer and sound artist Siamak Anvari 18 June 2024
Siamak Anvari (Tehran, 1981) is a composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. Three weeks prior to his PhD defence on 25 June and the presenta...
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Rubicon awarded to neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad 18 June 2024
Neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad has been awarded a Rubicon grant to conduct research on cortical and allelic determinants of age-related cognitiv...
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Sharing insights about paths and careers as philosophy graduates 18 June 2024
Last month, Symposion, the study association for Philosophy students, organised this year's student-alumni career event. Four alumni joined the event ...
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How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust 17 June 2024
To cover up their deportation plans which targeted Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis re-opened schools. In her inaugural lecture, historian ...
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CFP Monotheisms in Medieval Islamic Thought 17 June 2024
The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH) is hosting a two-day in-person conference on the topic of monotheism in medieval...
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Three questions for the student psychologist 17 June 2024
With the final weeks of the year in full swing, many students are experiencing stress. This is where a chat with the student psychologist can bring so...