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Silence as a form of activism: 'It is precisely by being silent that you sometimes keep the conversation open' 20 October 2023
We talk too little about silence, thinks university lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven. He has been awarded a Veni grant to investigate the role of sile...
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Decolonisation in art: 'That darkness says: up to here and no further' 13 October 2023
It was not light, but its absence that caught Stephanie Noach's attention a few years ago. With her research on darkness in art, she aims to show how ...
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Database full of 3D models: 'Maybe it will help us deal with restitution more inclusively' 09 October 2023
Scientists' 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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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention 08 September 2023
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material show...
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Out now! LEAP # 3: Sense(s) 23 June 2023
The 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 2023
As 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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BA Classics students staging a production of Hecuba: ‘It really brings a tragedy to life.’ 01 June 2023
Translating 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 researchers 22 May 2023
Six 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 2023
Not 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 2023
The 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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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’ 22 March 2023
What 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 2023
Today, anyone wanting a new look for their living room watches a home decorating programme or buys an interior design magazine. In the eighteenth cent...
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' 16 March 2023
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight ye...
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award 07 March 2023
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she ...
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How music shaped a Cabo Verdean community in Rotterdam 10 February 2023
No migrant community in the Netherlands wrote as many songs about the place they migrated to as the Cabo Verdean one. PhD candidate Seger Kersbergen s...