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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague 04 November 2024
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize 04 November 2024
Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...
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Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture 30 October 2024
What does forced migration have to do with the way a humanist aesthetics was forged after World War II? A Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows...
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize 24 October 2024
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Opinion: The message 'ready for the fight' in the Defence White Paper raises concerns. 21 October 2024
‘Strong, smart and together’ is the name of the recently published Defence White Paper, which is being debated in the House of Representatives along w...
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Global Governance Journal comes to Leiden 14 October 2024
A team of researchers based at Leiden has taken over the editorship of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Or...
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Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’ 07 October 2024
‘What more could I want?’ University and education historian Pieter Slaman is still deeply touched to have been awarded the LUS Education Prize for be...
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?' 30 September 2024
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequent...
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Leiden students research the Relief of Leiden: ‘It was a divided city’ 30 September 2024
If you do research on Leidens Ontzet in Leiden, you can count on a lot of interest. But Leiden Kennisstad interns Marieke Nolten and Alexander Nuijten...
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Sarah Cramsey's "Uprooting the Diaspora" wins the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies 27 September 2024
Sarah 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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Lotte: 'It was because of my colleagues that I chose history in Leiden' 20 September 2024
Her part-time job as a city guide in Dordrecht opened Lotte Hamm's eyes: not business administration, but history was her dream study. This semester s...
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The forgotten world of Surinamese cloths and the Leiden Cotton Company 16 September 2024
For her internship at the Textile Museum, master's student Evi van Stiphout researched the Surinamese cloths of the Leiden Cotton Company. Leiden and ...
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‘Let politics be the focus at the State Opening of Parliament’ 16 September 2024
A big performance by André Rieu, food trucks in The Hague and more contact with the Royal Family: grand plans were announced in April to make the Stat...
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Eric Storm: ‘Nationalist politicians have a more international orientation than traditional parties’ 13 September 2024
Nationalism is so prevalent in our society that we hardly realise it once didn’t exist. In his new book, senior university lecturer Eric Storm reveals...