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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy17 January 2024Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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Photo Report Cluster South15 January 2024The renovation of the South Cluster has been in full swing over the recent period. As the completion date approaches, no later than 1 April, we're exc...
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'15 January 2024Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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Politics, Opera & PhilosophySusanna Lindberg and Tim Meijers 11 January 2024Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Th...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings11 January 2024A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript f...
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers08 January 2024What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture on 12 January, Professor Mariken Teeuwen talked about the texts they...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines03 January 2024Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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Taking Brussels by storm – the EUS 2023 study trip20 December 2023Every autumn EUS students take the train down to our southern neighbours to learn the secrets of European Union institutions. They get to hear tips ab...
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news20 December 2023So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also ...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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The battle over marriage in Indonesia13 December 2023The Indonesian government has been trying to enforce marriage and divorce laws for some time. These efforts are encountering resistance from both loca...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’12 December 2023What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’11 December 2023Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...