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Tazuko van Berkel receives Vidi for research into economics and anthropology in ancient Greece 05 November 2020
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel has obtained a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will enable her to research the image of man that emerges from ...
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'The results could take days' 04 November 2020
Election Day is over, but it's by no means clear who the new President of the United States will be. On the morning after Election Day, US expert Sara...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method' 19 August 2020
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Rick Honings appointed Scaliger professor 30 June 2020
Senior lecturer Rick Honings has been appointed Scaliger professor with effect from 1 July 2020. In the coming years his focus will be on promoting te...
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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History 26 June 2020
The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Class...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’ 05 June 2020
It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Sara Polak warns about social media: ‘What do you do with those tweets by Trump?’ 25 May 2020
Sara Polak, American Studies expert and University Lecturer investigates how American presidents deal with the media and how new, social media influen...
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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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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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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...
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Charlotte Jacobs, first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies 01 October 2019
External PhD candidate Annette Jenowein investigated how women have changed the meaning of gender by claiming their place in traditionally male-domina...
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Heritage institutions for everyone 30 September 2019
How can heritage institutions make their organisations, collections and exhibitions more inclusive and accessible? University lecturer Eliza Steinbock...
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Scholar at Risk Lety Elvir Lazo: ‘My university intimidated me too’ 23 September 2019
The proceeds of the Leiden University Science Run on 28 September will go to Scholars at Risk, a section of the UAF that assists refugee scholars. One...
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’ 12 September 2019
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-projec...