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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund 04 February 2022
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclu...
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today 24 January 2022
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not g...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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Rutte IV: a fifth of the cabinet studied in Leiden 10 January 2022
The new cabinet has finally taken office. Six of its members studied in Leiden, once again making the University a key supplier to the cabinet. Who ar...
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Six prospective members of the new cabinet studied in Leiden 04 January 2022
The Rutte IV cabinet will be sworn in soon. A fifth of the prospective ministers and secretaries of state studied in Leiden. Who are they and what did...
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship 27 December 2021
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. Acco...
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie 20 December 2021
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honou...
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‘Migration is more about hope than economy’ 18 December 2021
Afghans who came to the Netherlands in a hurry, refugees who were used as leverage by Belarus and boat refugees who tried to reach Europe in an increa...
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Innovative research on impact of violent conflicts on food security in Chad 13 December 2021
Violent conflicts and civil wars in Chad impede most rural households' access to food security, agricultural activities and access to essential servic...
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For LGBT+ migrants, dating apps are about much more than sex 10 December 2021
When you think of migration, you probably won’t immediately think of dating apps. Yet such apps are important to many migrants, such as those who iden...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust 26 November 2021
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict' 10 November 2021
Mirjam de Bruijn has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Confl...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia 09 November 2021
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...