News
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Publication - inaugural lecture by ACPA alumnus Falk Hübner 18 January 2023
At the start of the new year, Falk Hübner's (DocARTES/ ACPA alumnus and now professor/lector of Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Fine and Perfo...
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Publication - Overtone Singing by ACPA alumnus Mark van Tongeren 18 January 2023
Overtone Singing, written by ACPA alumnus Mark van Tongeren, deals with the hidden harmonies of the human voice.
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Students remain ‘very satisfied’ with their degree programme in 2022 18 January 2023
Almost 3,000 students from the Faculty of Humanities completed the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2022. With a response rate of 38%, t...
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European grant to research Tibetan collection: 'Tibetans' literary output was and is huge' 17 January 2023
As a student, university lecturer Berthe Jansen fell under the spell of the Van Manen collection: a collection full of Tibetan writings and objects. A...
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Final project of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (minor CSSC) 17 January 2023
On 14 December 2022, students of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (as part of the Creative Strategies for a Society in Ch...
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Russians continue to use age-old military concepts 17 January 2023
Russian military concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries still exist and have not lost their strategic relevance. The Russians us...
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association 16 January 2023
Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the Americ...
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective 13 January 2023
From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in ...
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Faculty of Humanities ushers in the new year: 'Build in some low-pressure time' 13 January 2023
In a world beset with war, climate problems and skyrocketing energy prices, it is good to have some 'slack time' now and then. That was Dean Mark Rutg...
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' 10 January 2023
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried ...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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Feminist fatwas: How female Islamic scholars influence the religious landscape in Indonesia 02 January 2023
If you have a question about the right way to live as a Muslim, to find the answer - the fatwa - you need to speak to an alim (plural ulama), an Isla...
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news 22 December 2022
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-d...
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New SSH laboratories in Sylvius Building 22 December 2022
On the second floor of the Sylvius Laboratory, new labs are being built for researchers of the Faculties of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Humani...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’ 22 December 2022
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...