News
-
Bioart plays with genetic building blocks12 February 2024Biotechnological developments are moving fast. From genetically modified plant varieties we are now moving to cultured meat. These developments requir...
-
How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
-
New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'08 February 2024Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, ...
-
Science on Insta: are influencers helping get young women (back) into reading?07 February 2024Dutch influencers like Romy Boomsma and Nina Pierson have a huge following on Instagram and are increasingly sharing book tips there. Researcher Aafje...
-
Mild Intellectual Disability and Loneliness: 'We Need to Handle the Discomfort Better'06 February 2024Individuals with a mild intellectual disability often experience loneliness more frequently than others. In a new NWA project, social history lecturer...
-
Dutch Student Orchestra celebrates female composer: 'Deserve to be heard'05 February 2024Every year in February, ninety students who love making music come together in Someren, a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Through rehears...
-
Fun opening of the second semester: 'Let's support each other'05 February 2024On the first day of February, employees of the Faculty of Humanities gathered in the Faculty Club. They were there to usher in the new semester, while...
-
Announcement new name Cluster Zuid01 February 2024Today, Leiden University announces who the new Cluster Zuid on the Witte Singel will be named after. Summer 2023, a ballot determined the name of the ...
-
Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy01 February 2024Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
-
High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day01 February 2024The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years...
-
Deans in the lecture halls: 'I can imagine that students enjoy being here.'01 February 2024Do all graduates in the humanities pursue a career in education? What does support for incoming students look like in Leiden? And what makes a languag...
-
Meet Max Farasat, Co-Winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award30 January 2024In December 2023, Mr. Max Farasat (B.A. Religious Studies) was announced as Co-Winner of the "Best Thesis in Jewish Studies" Award. He sat down to ans...
-
Austria Centre Leiden Supports Young Researchers at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference30 January 2024For the second year in a row, the Austria Centre Leiden sponsored a festive gathering for the Paula Hyman Mentorship Program at the Annual Conference ...
-
Old/New Histories that Continue to Matter: M.A. History Students use Leiden Austria Centre programming as they study the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe30 January 2024Nearly eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, we continue to learn more about how the Holocaust “happened” in central and eastern Europe. In...
-
State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...