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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the Colony 03 June 2019
University lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. Th...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers 23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’ 16 May 2019
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Teaching innovation: Training students to give LU talks 02 May 2019
Lights out, spotlight on, the LU talks begin. In the small Imperium Theatre, next to the Leidse Schouwburg, students take turns walking up to the roun...
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Exhibition Herstory: Leiden's Leading Ladies in the Oude UB 25 April 2019
In all the 444 years since Leiden University was founded, almost nothing has been written about women at the University. That's why a group of 25 fema...
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning 17 April 2019
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public i...
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Results research assessment LUCAS 16 April 2019
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society looks back on a successful research assessment of the institute which took place in the fall of 2...
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Comenius grants for three Leiden lecturers 01 April 2019
Three lecturers from Leiden University have each been awarded a €50,000 Comenius Teaching Fellows grant to implement an educational innovation project...
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Angus Mol: ‘It all began when I saw Super Mario Bros at a friend’s house.’ 21 March 2019
He was so disappointed that he couldn't go on that archaeological field trip to the Caribbean, he spent most of his time at his computer working on hi...
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Eliza Steinbock: ‘My research is a kind of me-search’ 07 March 2019
My name is Eliza Steinbock, I’m 38 years old and I was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. I started teaching and researchin...
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One million euros for research on migrant cultures in European Cities 07 March 2019
Dr. Sara Brandellero, expert in Lusophone literatures and cultures and member of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, will lead a res...
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The early Middle Ages a ‘golden age for the elderly’? Not quite! 14 February 2019
According to a number of British historians, the elderly had a particularly high status in the early Middle Ages. A new book by Leiden cultural histor...
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Elizabeth den Hartog: ‘I always knew I wanted to go into academia’ 24 January 2019
Art historian Elizabeth den Hartog has been studying medieval sculpture at Leiden University for 32 years. Like a detective, she searches buildings, b...
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Megan Griffiths wins Theodore Roosevelt American History Award for Master’s Thesis 07 January 2019
In 2018, Megan Griffiths, then a student of the MA North American Studies, won the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award for her master’s thesis ‘...
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Symposion Goethe in honour of Klaas Gille's birthday 28 November 2018
“Goethezeit” – Goethes Zeit – Zeit für Goethe? That was the title of the conference held for the 80th birthday of Germanist Klaas Gille.