News
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Diversity in society: ‘We are looking for a new approach to an existing phenomenon’ 04 July 2022
What 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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Towards a more diverse diversity policy: NWA subsidy for ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ project 08 April 2022
The ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ research project is to receive a subsidy of 1.8 million euros from the National Research Agenda (NWA). Coordinator Marlou ...
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare 29 March 2022
The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s s...
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’ 18 March 2022
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working...
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education 15 February 2022
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti wer...
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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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‘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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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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Writing history together in the Transvaal 18 October 2021
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’ 06 July 2021
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ 22 March 2021
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on ...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’ 04 June 2020
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project 28 April 2020
A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views 09 January 2020
The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...