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Maartje van der Woude speaker at Cleveringa Meeting Leiden 2020 20 October 2020
All Leiden alumni, students and anyone else who might be interested is welcome to attend the online Cleveringa Meeting in Leiden on Wednesday 25 Novem...
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General and champion of human rights Roméo Dallaire appointed Cleveringa professor 13 October 2020
Canadian Roméo Dallaire (1946) was UN Commander in Rwanda at the time of the genocide there, subsequently becoming a champion of human rights. He has ...
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A broader perspective on the war 07 May 2020
Leiden researcher Ethan Mark has a mission, he explains in the alumni magazine Leidraad. He wants us to take off our Eurocentric glasses when we study...
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New film about the life of Ben Telders (1903-1945) 07 May 2020
Shortly before Remembrance Day, a new film was launched about the life and legacy of Ben Telders. Telders was professor of Dutch Law at Leiden Univer...
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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance Day 05 May 2020
This year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan M...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories 23 April 2020
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’ 25 November 2019
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November...
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‘Don’t assume that someone else will step in’ 11 November 2019
Her book ‘Veel valse hoop’ (Much False Hope) about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands was immediately hailed as a seminal work. German his...
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing 05 November 2019
In 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, Brit...
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor 01 October 2019
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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Hiltje Cleveringa given first copy of her father’s biography 17 January 2019
Hiltje Cleveringa seemed moved when on 16 January she was given the first copy of the biography of her father, Rudolph Cleveringa. Peppering his speec...
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‘Cleveringa was more than a one-day hero’ 14 January 2019
In his biography about Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, Kees Schuyt adds to the image we already have of this famous Leiden professor. The overriding foc...
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On the trail of Cleveringa 08 January 2019
He is primarily known for his protest speech against the dismissal of his Jewish teacher Eduard Meijers, but who was the man behind this iconic figure...
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'Why aren't those children at school?' 27 November 2018
The new privacy laws make it more difficult to combat human trafficking: under-age victims are often not registered. In her lecture, Cleveringa Profes...
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‘Dutch people should take human trafficking more seriously' 12 November 2018
Citizens underestimate their role, but they really can make a difference, says legal specialist Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen. Combatting injustice is ...