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Four migration professors doubly appointed in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus network 11 October 2022
Four professors specialising in migration will soon be appointed as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professors: Professor Thea Hilhorst and Professor Peter Schol...
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The Activating Podcast Method: engaging students with the help of blended learning 10 October 2022
How can I get students to collaborate more and increase their engagement? That was the question that teacher, and winner of the 2022 Faculty Teaching ...
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’ 07 October 2022
Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline rece...
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Project LAWKI (Life As We Know It) by the collective ARK / Roosje Klap winner Gouden Kalf 2022 06 October 2022
Project LAWKI (Life As We Know It) by PhDArts candidate Roosje Klap (ARK) won a Gouden Kalf Award 2022 for the Best Digital Cultural Production.
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All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up 06 October 2022
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior Un...
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Translation Award for Anne Sytske Keijser, Mark Leenhouts, and Silvia Marijnissen 04 October 2022
Anne Sytske Keijser, Mark Leenhouts, and Silvia Marijnissen have won the 2022 FILTER Translation Award for De droom van de rode kamer
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Ad Maas appointed professor by special appointment: 'Exhibiting scientific research is at the cutting edge of museology 04 October 2022
On 1 September, Ad Maas, curator of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, was appointed professor by special appointment. In this role, he will primarily focus on th...
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Six NWO grants for FGW researchers: this is what the scientists are going to do 04 October 2022
Six projects from the Faculty of Humanities recently received grants of up to 750,000 euros from the NWO Open Competition. Researchers involved tell h...
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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’ 04 October 2022
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...
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Update and reminder: Call for proposals Social Resilience & Security programme 04 October 2022
On behalf of the interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security, we would like to remind you of the call for proposals for seed funding (up ...
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Nira Wickramasinghe receives grant to research forgotten Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean World 04 October 2022
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe will research forgotten lineages with an NWO Open Competition grant, in particular the afterlife of Dutch slavery in the...
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Antje Wessels will investigate the world of fragments with NWO grant 04 October 2022
Professor Antje Wessels has received an NWO Open Competition grant to research fragmentary texts.
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant 04 October 2022
Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on lan...
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements? 04 October 2022
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a ba...
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Greek texts offer fascinating glimpse of multicultural Roman Empire 30 September 2022
Casper de Jonge, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, believes that Greek texts from the Roman Empire are more interesting than was first thoug...