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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’Cleveringa Lecture 25 November 2025Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa ...
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Cleveringa Professor Landemore: ‘I want to patch the holes in our democracy’Cleveringa Lecture 05 November 2025Rich, white, urban: Western politicians often represent a small segment of the population. Political scientist Hélène Landemore advocates for a more i...
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa ProfessorCleveringa Lecture 04 September 2025
The French political theorist Hélène Landemore, known for her critical perspective on modern democracies, has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Pro...
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World WarSecond World War 28 April 2025In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britai...
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’27 November 2024The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture. She held up a mirror to those p...
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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor09 July 2024Lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor. She will deliver the Cleveringa lecture on 26 November ...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons28 November 2023From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western rememb...
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’13 November 2023The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Clevering...
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Historian Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor13 June 2023Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden...
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New Cleveringa books donated to Leiden University01 December 2022Two Cleveringa books from Theo ten Kate's law library were donated to Leiden University by grandson Sebastiaan ten Kate on 24 November. They are the d...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa25 November 2022‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history24 November 2022It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’19 October 2022Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor04 October 2022Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by...