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Sunny message during rainy Faculty Year Opening08 September 2025It was pouring with rain during the Opening of the Faculty Year, but in the Oranjerie, Dean Henk te Velde had a positive message for those present: th...
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Faculty Teaching Prize for Mike Schmidli08 September 2025Assistant Professor Mike Schmidli has won the 2025 Faculty Teaching Prize. The Education Committee praised his commitment not only to teaching student...
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?08 September 2025On 15 May 2025, a roundtable '80 Years of Peace in Europe?' was convened with students and staff at Leiden University to reflect on the anniversary of...
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‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’08 September 2025In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she ...
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Stephan Raaijmakers: ‘Everyone within Humanities can contribute to the study of AI’03 September 2025Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by speci...
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics03 September 2025Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and lang...
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant02 September 2025Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...
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International Studies degree: a skillset to navigate the world01 September 2025On Friday 29 August 2025, 370 students received their Bachelor's degree in International Studies. The diplomas were awarded in the historic setting o...
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Hi Mette, bye Nova: changing of the guard for student member of the Faculty Board28 August 2025Nova Verkerk has represented the interests of students as assessor for the past two years. Now her term has come to an end, and on 1 September she wil...
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Carmen Van den Bergh on her nomination for the LUS Teaching Prize: ‘It’s an encouragement to further develop passion for literature and education’28 August 2025Assistant professor Carmen Van den Bergh has been nominated for the Leiden University Teaching Prize. ‘I combine literature education with social rele...
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'26 August 2025Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University...
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Nominees for the 2025 Leiden Teaching PrizeLeiden University Student Platform 25 August 2025Which teacher knows best how to inspire their students? Carmen van den Bergh (Humanities), Egbert Koops (Law) and Arjan Louwen (Archaeology) have been...
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One more month until the Leiden Essay Film Festival21 August 2025On 14 September, the Leiden Essay Film Festival will kick off. This three-day festival, organised by the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, mark...
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Launch D&I Calendar 2025-202621 August 2025The Faculty of Humanities is proud to launch its new D&I Calendar for the academic year 2025-2026. This calendar is an effort to build awareness and c...
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In Memoriam: Dr Joannes (Jan) Schmidt (15 June 1951-11 August 2025)19 August 2025Last week, the sad news reached us that Dr Jan Schmidt passed away on 11 August 2025. We wish his partner, friends and family strength and comfort as ...