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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last) 05 September 2022The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s ...
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’ 29 August 2022Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest prog...
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Learn from the latest research on Roman amulets by Patricia Kret 26 July 2022Research on the Greek and Roman times often focuses on important leaders, writers or politicians. However, Patricia Kret is more interested in the nor...
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‘Liberal American foreign policy was always entangled with illiberal interests’ 25 July 2022American foreign policy in the period after the Second World War is often characterised as liberal. This is, however, not the full picture, argues uni...
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NIAS grant for research on ‘War on Drugs’ 11 July 2022His article on ‘the War on Drugs’ in Colombia and the Philippines has been in the top five most downloaded articles of Oxford University Press for som...
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Diversity in society: ‘We are looking for a new approach to an existing phenomenon’ 04 July 2022What is the best way for us as a society to deal with all the different forms of diversity? Professor Marlou Schrover will use the EuroScience Open Fo...
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Lauren Lauret receives D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 30 June 2022University lecturer Lauren Lauret has been awarded the D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 for her dissertation on the meeting practices of the States General dur...
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? 28 June 2022Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a g...
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them? 02 June 2022While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used i...
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Salvador Santino Regilme awarded fellowship at NIAS 25 May 2022Salvador Santino Regilme has been selected for a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Amsterdam. From September 2022, ...
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’ 17 May 2022Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looki...
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia 16 May 2022Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, c...
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’ 02 May 2022For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in...
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Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski 22 April 2022On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collecti...
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants 14 April 2022Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Researc...