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Integrative learning to improve connection with labour market: 'Digital skills are badly needed'15 July 2024Many humanities graduates find work in digital heritage, but a good pedagogical model to match education is lacking. University lecturers Karin de Wil...
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 202410 July 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research:...
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Ready for the digital future: The Humanities Hub08 July 2024The future is digital. That is why the new Humanities Hub for Digital Research Skills, and Media (in short: Humanities Hub) will soon open its doors i...
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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 2024The 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 RealmCall for Abstracts 02 July 2024Event 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 2024For 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 Do28 June 2024The 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 202527 June 2024Leiden 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 ecosystems27 June 2024The 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 2024Zār 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: Matter21 June 2024The 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’ means20 June 2024Words 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 Anvari18 June 2024Siamak 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 Mofrad18 June 2024Neuroscientist 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 graduates18 June 2024Last month, Symposion, the study association for Philosophy students, organised this year's student-alumni career event. Four alumni joined the event ...