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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ 28 July 2022How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University 30 June 2022An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them...
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration 27 June 2022Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints an...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers 21 April 2022Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022! 13 April 2022On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Tazuko van Berkel new member The Young Academy 09 December 2021The Young Academy has gained a new Leiden humanities scholar as a member. University lecturer Greek language and literature Tazuko van Berkel will be ...
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize 08 November 2021Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanq...
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A new Digital Lab@Veth! 29 October 2021The Digital Lab is open! This new lab is meant for staff and students who are looking for a place to work, experiment, and find support for their digi...
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Florian Schneider on China’s digital nationalism 17 August 2021In recent years, online platforms have been utilized more and more to spread Chinese nationalist discourse. In an interview posted on The Diplomat, di...
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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option 12 August 2021‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challeng...
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Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics 03 August 2021Chinese athletes must perform this Olympics. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online. Flo...
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing 28 June 2021Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After ...
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure 21 June 2021In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...
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Digital skills at History 18 June 2021In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an i...
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Grant for research on politics and play: ‘In both cases, a world is created’ 07 June 2021How do politics and play relate to each other? Six Leiden academics hope to find an answer to that question over the coming years. They have received ...