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Leiden mayor visits Humanities: ‘The diversity of subjects is fantastic’10 July 2025Mayor Peter Heijkoop is busy getting to know his city better. On Monday 7 July, he visited the Faculty of Humanities. ‘A few hours and you can see how...
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Board visit: the Institute for Philosophy wants to continue to grow through new collaborations07 July 2025The university is home to many pearls of research institutes that do not make the news every day. The Executive Board visited one such pearl, the Inst...
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First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden04 July 2025On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Ams...
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Additional funding for five experimental and innovative research projects04 July 2025Five Leiden research projects in history, law and AI have received SSH Open Competition M 2024 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The rese...
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Mette Kamerich appointed as assessor in the Faculty Board04 July 2025The Executive Board has appointed Mette Kamerich as the assessor and student member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Humanities. The appointment...
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities03 July 2025Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’03 July 2025Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she ...
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Snacks, drinks, poster presentations: Education Market inspires teachers03 July 2025On Thursday 19 June, the sun-drenched garden of the Huizinga Building was the setting for the Education Market. Over snacks and drinks, colleagues ins...
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Bird house or birdhouse? Research on compounds gives insight into how our brain works02 July 2025When we hear the word ‘bird house’, do we process it as a whole or does our brain see it as ‘bird’ and ‘house’? PhD student Jiaqi Wang explored this f...
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China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’Chinese politics 01 July 2025Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past deca...
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’Backroom politics 01 July 2025The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture wer...
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and BeyondCall for papers for conference 29-30 October 2025 at Leiden University 27 June 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shap...
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Growing the Leiden Heritage community: Archaeology hosts 2nd Heritage Open Mic26 June 2025Are you an interdisciplinary researcher working on or with heritage? Do you struggle with faculty fragmentation and finding relevant colleagues to col...
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Co-Producing Nationalism in Crisis: State and Public Dynamics on Weibo26 June 2025During the corona pandemic, the Chinese government's digital communication with its citizens changed. Hard propaganda was increasingly replaced by ‘so...
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’Interview 26 June 2025How did people in the past deal with change? And how did such change influence personal and collective identities? For her research on these questions...