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Call for Papers and Kick-off Conference Research Group: From Disorder to Order 31 May 2016
On October 20 and 21, 2016, Leiden University will host an international conference under the title "From Disorder to Order: Conflict and the Resource...
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Book publication Wim Willems ‘Hagenezen die er mochten wezen’ 30 May 2016
What, and especially who has formed the city The Hague? Wim Willems, professor Social History and director of the Modern Urban Studies (MUS) Institute...
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What drives universities? 12 April 2016
Studium Generale is organising a series of discussions about what universities are and what they ought to be. The first debate was on 4 April in the A...
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NWO grant for project 'Human Security and Conflict in Ukraine: Local Approaches and Transnational Dimensions' 14 March 2016
Prof. André Gerrits and dr. Max Bader have been awarded a grant by the WOTRO Science for Global Development of NWO for their project on human securit...
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Introducing: Esther Baakman 24 February 2016
Esther Baakman is a PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History.
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Introducing: Tiffany Bousard 24 February 2016
Tiffany Bousard is a PhD-candidate at Leiden University Institute for History and examines Atlantic news which circulated in the Habsburg or Southern ...
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How China Studies started in the Dutch East Indies 16 February 2016
Leiden has the most highly regarded China Studies programme in Europe. But how did this knowledge find its way specifically to Leiden? For his PhD res...
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Call for papers for conference 'The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances, 1800-2000' 11 February 2016
What does it take to be a good historian? What are the capacities or dispositions needed to thrive as an historian? Put differently, what are the tale...
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DANS KDP grant to publish five centuries of coin production figures 09 February 2016
In the project ‘Coin production in the Low Countries: 1334-1789’, Leiden University, the International Institute of Social History, and Het Nederlands...
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Referendum in Bolivia: test for democracy 09 February 2016
The Bolivian people will make their opinion known on a change to the constitution in a referendum on 21 February. Leiden University organised a sympos...
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H2020grant awarded to Leiden team as part of a European network to research the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood strategy 11 January 2016
What should the EU do to support Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova? How can the European Union adapt its policies towards these countries in a very difficu...
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Thorbecke Fund Grant for Herman Paul 01 December 2015
Herman Paul has received a €140,000 grant from the Thorbecke Fund (KNAW) for a project entitled “The Demands of Our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 t...
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Leiden's first professor in International Studies 01 May 2015
The Board of Governors of Leiden University has confirmed the appointment of Professor André Gerrits (Institute for History, currently in the field of...