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Studenti all’estero: Rachel and Daan about their stay in Rome 12 July 2019
For six months, Rachel and Daan, students of Italian language and culture, are studying in Rome on an Erasmus scholarship. Below they talk about their...
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After us the deluge: exhibition portrays the end of humanity 11 July 2019
From a catastrophic fire to a flood that engulfs the earth. Mineke Schipper, Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies, has collected myths from the four...
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Podcast: how Rembrandt found his voice 08 July 2019
Rembrandt lived long before audio and video recordings were invented. But a group of researchers has managed to reconstruct his voice. How? Lecturer i...
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Alumnus Chris Colijn on his traineeship at a think tank, his master’s degree and advice for other graduates 01 July 2019
What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his master’s in Russian and Euras...
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'Invisible agents' by Nadine Akkerman most discussed book at Hay Festival 21 June 2019
University Lecturer Nadine Akkerman concluded her book tour for her book 'Invisible Agents' in England at the Hay Festival. At the festival, attended ...
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Humans and animals: how is their relationship defined? 05 June 2019
Speakers from all over the world offered their interesting views on the relationship between humans and animals during the LUCAS Graduate Conference, ...
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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...