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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden 18 May 2021
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell in...
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums are very innovative’ 04 May 2021
The plan was to research the years surrounding the creation of the signature H.P. Berlage building of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, but due to the lockdow...
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Leiden Graduate Journal: the first step to a career in academics 16 April 2021
Publishing an article as early as during your studies. Master's students of Nanne Timmer and Astrid Weyenberg are doing it. In the new course 'Leiden ...
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The Salm story: the forgotten architects of the Netherlands 24 March 2021
Music venue Paradiso, the Keizersgracht Church and the Artis Zoo’s aquarium: these buildings all owe their design to architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Sa...
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution' 08 January 2021
A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Wash...
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Challenging the digital natives 18 December 2020
How do you engage students in times of corona? Sara Brandellero, co-chair of the study programmes for Latin American studies, created assignments that...
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NIAS fellowship for Maria Boletsi 16 December 2020
Maria Boletsi has received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) within the framework of the Theme Group Project The P...
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We can no longer look at the world as ‘the West and the rest’ 06 November 2020
Art historian and professor Kitty Zijlmans is on a mission: she wants to get rid of the notion that the West dominates the art world. To no longer put...
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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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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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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...