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What our experts have to say about the key issues in the Dutch electionsDutch elections 28 October 2025Is your strategic vote actually strategic? How can the Netherlands form a stable government? And what should the next government do about migration, d...
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New eye tracker for the Babylab27 October 2025The Babylab, part of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and SSH Labs infrastructure, has recently introduced a new eye tracking devic...
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargonPhD 23 October 2025Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ a...
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‘Irregular warfare is not going away, however much we’d like it to’Inaugural lecture 23 October 2025The fight against insurgents, guerrillas and resistance movements is an ‘incredibly unpopular’ topic with experts and military personnel, says Profess...
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant23 October 2025The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start ...
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Internal Research-Internship: Into the Archives20 October 2025What to do when more than forty boxes, filled to the brink with archival materials from the study of religion ranging all the way from the 1960’s up u...
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Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’Humans of Humanities 20 October 2025Jonathan Powell came to Leiden from England to conduct research into the role of women in early modern court cases. In addition to all kinds of exciti...
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CV of Failures exhibition opens in the Herta Mohr BuildingExhibition 17 October 2025Doctorates, scholarships, or a trip around the world during a sabbatical: when it comes to our careers, we often talk about what went well. The CV of ...
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’New research 17 October 2025Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Al...
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Do’s and don’ts for an effective immigration policyDutch elections 17 October 2025Stopping people at the border does not result in less refugee migration, but providing relief in the region where migrants come from does. What else w...
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to GuadalajaraNWO grant 14 October 2025In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done wel...
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From market-driven thinking to ‘Build, build, build’: Leiden experts on the housing crisisPARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 14 October 2025The housing crisis is affecting a substantial group of Dutch citizens and is one of the main election themes this year. How did things get this far an...
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’14 October 2025His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy ...
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Caspar Jacobs in Philosophers’ Annual: ‘It is not relationships between objects, but absolute properties that are most important’09 October 2025An article by assistant professor Caspar Jacobs has been included in the prestigious Philosophers’ Annual, which compiles the ten best philosophy arti...
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In Memoriam: Laura van Hoof07 October 2025It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our esteemed colleague Laura van Hoof on Wednesday 1 October, after an illness of more than a...