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Law track launched for master's in Governance of Migration and Diversity07 November 2024The master's programme in Governance of Migration and Diversity has expanded to include a Law track (LL.M.). Law students can now enrol in this master...
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize04 November 2024Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...
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Claudia Robustella: 'I've learned to accept myself and my mental health issues'04 November 2024During her student years, Claudia Robustella struggled with her mental health. Thanks in part to the help of her study coordinator Rosa van Straten, s...
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Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture30 October 2024What does forced migration have to do with the way a humanist aesthetics was forged after World War II? A Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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‘American politics gives Europeans a glimpse of what lies ahead’24 October 2024It’s impossible to avoid, even in the Netherlands: the US will soon be going to the polls. Where does it come from, this fascination with US elections...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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President Korea Foundation op bezoek24 October 2024On Friday morning, 18 October, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and Professor Remco Breuker welcomed Korea Foundation President Gheewan Kim.
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize24 October 2024Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Education in Ancient Egypt: 'Everyone Used the Same Text'22 October 2024For hundreds of years, children in Ancient Egypt learned to read using The Satire of the Trades, a text in which a father gives advice to his son thro...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’22 October 2024Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...