News
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Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied 02 March 2020
From the new street language Smibanese to 17th-century manuscripts: the first national Dutch Studies Open Day explores a wide range of topics. The Ope...
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Ineke Sluiter receives honorary degree from the University of Bristol 21 February 2020
Ineke Sluiter received an honorary degree from the University of Bristol on 18 February 2020. In the Wills Memorial Building, she addressed young doct...
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At the helm of the largest Oxford college 18 February 2020
Kersti Börjars studied English language and literature in Leiden. She became a professor and now she is Master of the largest college at the Universit...
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‘Fantasies about coronavirus are more contagious than the disease itself’ 05 February 2020
Fake news about ‘patient zero’ and hyperbolic headlines warning about the ‘yellow peril.’ Leiden researchers have spotted fake news galore about coron...
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Why some criminal cases cannot be solved in the cultural domain 30 January 2020
Court cases that get out of hand are enacted again and again, according to PhD candidate Tessa de Zeeuw. De Zeeuw: ‘Even if the court comes to the cor...
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Angels for sale: retrieving looted cultural property 27 January 2020
The illicit trade in stolen cultural property is booming. Countless works of art and antiquities will be lost if we don’t do more to stop this. This i...
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration 21 January 2020
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the...
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From archaeologist to chatelaine 19 December 2019
Marijke Brouwer started as an archaeologist, excavating Iron Age settlements in the Dutch polder regions. Today she is the director of medieval Huis B...
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Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documents 10 December 2019
Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English m...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers 10 December 2019
The European Research Council has awarded ERC Consolidator Grants to four researchers from Leiden. These grants of up to 2m euros will enable them to ...
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Four top courses for Humanities 27 November 2019
Four bachelor courses are rewarded as Top courses.
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? 26 November 2019
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the ...
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Developing out of a solid base: Sybille Lammes new academic director of LUCAS 04 November 2019
As of November 1st 2019, Sybille Lammes, Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, will be the new academic director of the Leiden University Centre...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival 29 October 2019
A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius 17 October 2019
'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesa...