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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days' 19 November 2024It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: November 2024 07 November 2024When I posted the post below on the LUCSoR Twitter account a few months ago, I didn’t fully realise how aspirational that final sentence would be: ‘ra...
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Sarah Cramsey's "Uprooting the Diaspora" wins the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies 27 September 2024Sarah Cramsey's first book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946, has won the ...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: September 2024 24 September 2024
Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year! I hope this finds you feeling refreshed following an enjoyable and restful summer holiday season. As we start ...
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LUCSoR Staff Activism Against University Budget-Cuts 14 September 2024On Tuesday, September 17th, the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, will present the plans of the new government of the Netherlands. This government’s aspir...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants 03 September 2024Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own proje...
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 2024 10 July 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research:...
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How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust 17 June 2024To cover up their deportation plans which targeted Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis re-opened schools. In her inaugural lecture, historian ...
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Jonathan Silk receives Guggenheim Fellowship 29 May 2024The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award for US nationals. There are more than 3,000 applications every year, and this year only 188 were hono...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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Religious Studies students "learn with the city": bridging the gap between religion and society 10 April 2024Three students in Elpine de Boer’s class “Practicing Religious Studies” have been working together on a “Leren met de Stad” (“Learning with the City”)...
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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form 05 March 2024In her “Jews and Judaism” lecture class, Dr. Sarah Cramsey’s students produced 7-minute long podcasts instead of final papers.
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair 14 February 2024
Welcome to 2024! I hope this message finds you doing well and reenergised following the holiday season. With that said, I can imagine that many of us ...
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LUCSoR welcomes Verena Meyer to the staff 14 February 2024LUCSoR is happy to welcome Verena Myer, researcher and lecturer in Islam in South and South-East Asia to the staff. In this interview she will discuss...
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important' 27 November 2023The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will ta...