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Sarah Wolff: 'Doing research and teaching are inseparable' 24 January 2024Sarah Wolff has been professor of International Studies and Global Politics since 8 January. Time for a brief introduction about her field and academi...
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Call for Papers: "Voices of resistance in and against Dutch empire" 23 January 2024For the upcoming conference "Voices of Resistance in and Against the Dutch Empire, 1600-2020s" on September 12 and 13, 2024, at Utrecht University, pr...
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Santino Regilme wins Cecil B. Currey Book Award for ‘Aid Imperium’ 22 January 2024Salvador Santino Regilme, Jr. Associate Professor of International Relations and Program Chair of MA in International Relations, has been honored with...
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Rector Bijl presented the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association first annual conference 19 January 2024On December 6, 2023, Rector Hester Bijl welcomed participants at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association’s First Annual Conference 'Jews at Home: From C...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where' 18 January 2024A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy 16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' 15 January 2024Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers 08 January 2024What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture on 12 January, Professor Mariken Teeuwen talked about the texts they...
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes 05 December 2023Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet. PhD candid...
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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...
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Looking at the past with VR glasses: 'It really helps to visualise the impact of policy' 24 November 2023A subject like history is all about the past. That often involves scrolling through old documents, but in the Research Master's in History, Professor ...
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ 20 November 2023A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
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Wives of professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement 17 November 2023Aletta Jacobs, Suze Groeneweg and Joke Smit are familiar names from the Dutch women’s rights movement. Less well-known are the feminists who operated ...
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‘Think what you want to do about international students before developing your housing policy’ 09 November 2023Students used to live with a landlady or even with the professor whose course they were taking. Student accommodation has since become more profession...