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Humanities Hub opens: new digital facilities for researchers and students 05 December 2024The new Humanities Hub in the Huizinga Building was officially opened on Tuesday 3 December. In the different labs, researchers presented the options ...
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Humanities Hub: A Hotbed of Innovation 21 November 2024In two weeks' time, the official opening of the Humanities Hub will take place in the Huizinga Building. The first projects have already begun. Profes...
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Ready for the digital future: The Humanities Hub 08 July 2024The future is digital. That is why the new Humanities Hub for Digital Research Skills, and Media (in short: Humanities Hub) will soon open its doors i...
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How AI helps map sign languages 15 April 2024Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...
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Angus Mol, new LUCDH director: 'We want to be a point of contact' 15 April 2024Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) has had a new director since 1 February. Associate Professor Angus Mol wants to connect people...
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Liselore Tissen appointed ambassador for network of congress ambassadors 08 March 2024External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen has been appointed ambassador for Leiden City of Science. As the youngest member and the only non-professor in ...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play 05 March 2024A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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Expand your digital knowledge at the LUCDH Digital Skills Winter Week 24 January 2024The Winter Week of Digital Skills will take place in the PJ Veth building from 29 January to 2 February. There will be different workshops where you c...
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New professor Florian Schneider: ‘Chinese citizens are more perturbed by climate change than many in America or Europa’ 11 December 2023After a gap of five years, Leiden has a new Professor of Modern China. Florian Schneider started his position on 1 September.
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life 05 December 2023Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren o...
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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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AI for humanities: ‘Especially as a humanities student, you have the tools to work with this’ 06 November 2023While humanities once mainly involved books and archives, nowadays we can’t imagine life without AI. Next semester a new faculty-wide course will be i...
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What is the future of translation software within the university? 06 November 2023Is there a place for machine translation engines like Google Translate within the Faculty of Humanities? Associate professor Lettie Dorst’s new educat...
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Database full of 3D models: 'Maybe it will help us deal with restitution more inclusively' 09 October 2023Scientists' computers are now full of complicated 3D models, but no standard has yet been developed for exchanging the data. A new database should cha...
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New super server at humanities 25 September 2023When you think of humanities, you may not immediately think of a new super server. Yet one has just been commissioned. University lecturer Jelena Prok...