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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...
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Not the government, but powerful corporations determine climate policy in Brazil 06 November 2023Bribing a politician to gain influence or making sure friends end up in powerful positions: Brazilian energy companies use these power strategies dail...
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175 years of the Constitution: ‘Its dryness makes it a success' 03 November 2023175 years ago, the Netherlands took great strides towards parliamentary democracy with a revamped Constitution. Where does the Constitution stand today?
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How a UN mission in Cambodia became a 'success' by taking sides 17 October 2023The peacekeeping operation in Cambodia (1991-1993) by the United Nations is generally regarded as an important and rare peacekeeping success. Research...