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Young researchers looking for partnerships in Indonesia17 July 2023A number of young researchers recently took part in a knowledge mission to Indonesia, aiming to build a lasting relationship with the country. How did...
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda13 July 2023In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry ma...
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers06 July 2023Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch R...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 202304 July 2023Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship30 June 2023If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer A...
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Out now! LEAP # 3: Sense(s)23 June 2023The editorial board of the Leiden Elective Academic Periodical (LEAP) is proud to announce the release of the third edition , titled “Sense(s)”!
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?02 June 2023As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram...
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Depot or place of honour: what to do with Nobel laureates in the museum?01 June 2023What do you do with a museum collection full of individual white Nobel laureates at a time when diversity, inclusion and teamwork reign supreme? Ad Ma...
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BA Classics students staging a production of Hecuba: ‘It really brings a tragedy to life.’01 June 2023Translating texts, rehearsing scenes or practising music. Over the last few weeks, students of the BA Classics programme have been focused on just one...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Test expert Coen van 't Veer: 'The Dutch final exam is a good measuring tool'15 May 2023Not passed your Dutch exam? Then there’s no HAVO (Higher General Secondary) or VWO (pre-university) diploma for you, says the Inspectorate of Educatio...
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Between literature and law: 'Art can show us how law works and what is just'25 April 2023The interplay between literature and law is what Frans-Willem Korsten wants to address as a brand-new professor of Literature, Culture and Law. That m...
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 202312 April 2023The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered th...
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’22 March 2023What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manusc...
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Home magazines of yesteryear: Upholsterers were the interior designers of the eighteenth century'17 March 2023Today, anyone wanting a new look for their living room watches a home decorating programme or buys an interior design magazine. In the eighteenth cent...