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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers 08 January 2024
What 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 2023
Banquets 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 2023
The 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 2023
A 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 2023
A 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 2023
Aletta 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 2023
Students 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 2023
Bribing 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 2023
175 years ago, the Netherlands took great strides towards parliamentary democracy with a revamped Constitution. Where does the Constitution stand today?
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‘Leiden and the university can learn a lot from each other’ 03 October 2023
We always need to find a new way to tell the story of 3 October, believes Ariadne Schmidt. The professor by special appointment of History of Urban Cu...
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation 12 September 2023
Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foun...
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‘India in the World’: An Interaction with Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda 12 September 2023
Rahul Gandhi, former president of the Indian National Congress, was on the Hague Campus on 10 September. Gandhi was accompanied by his advisor, Sam Pi...
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’ 30 August 2023
Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the F...
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As old as the road to Rome: 'Fake news was already to be found in ancient times' 21 August 2023
Fake news a new phenomenon? Not according to Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan. In an NWO project, the associate professor and PhD student will delve i...
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023
A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...