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How Sir Winston Churchill became a Leiden Honorary Doctor 09 May 2016
Leiden University awarded Sir Winston Churchill on 10 May 1946 an Honorary Doctorate in Law. Churchill's speech of thanks showed typical British humou...
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Field of honour full of life 05 April 2016
The four thousand war victims buried at the Netherlands Field of Honour at Loenen include a number of Leiden students who were in the Resistance. The ...
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Donner warns against a weak European Union 26 November 2015
The refugee crisis and terror threats call for better European cooperation, was the message from Piet Hein Donner in his Cleveringa lecture on 26 Nove...
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Cleveringa lecture: ‘Values under threat from disintegrating European collaboration’ 17 November 2015
Collaboration within Europe is currently at a low ebb. This is threatening to undermine our freedom and the rights that are anchored in the European l...
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Four short films about four centuries of freedom at Leiden University 04 November 2015
Four videos tell the story of the history of Leiden University. The films were premiered on 2 November during the Leiden Film Festival.
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Hetty Cohen-Koster was present at Cleveringa’s speech 30 April 2015
'I belong here.' This is what the young Jewish law student Hetty Koster felt when she attended the memorable protest speech given by Professor Cleveri...
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Devouring movies and novels for Cleveringa course 17 February 2015
World War II is never over for those who have lived through it. This is the conclusion of Cleveringa Professor Carol Gluck and her students after read...
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Thomas Bäck holds Cleveringa lecture in Calgary, Canada 16 January 2015
On 26 November 2014 Prof. Dr. Thomas Bäck gives the Cleveringa lecture at the University of Calgary in Canada entitled: Innovation: Can we use princip...
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These professors also stood up for their Jewish colleagues 19 November 2014
With his speech in protest against the sacking of his Jewish colleague, Rudolph Cleveringa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, became the foremost symbol for...
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Historian Carol Gluck is Leiden's new Cleveringa professor 16 June 2014
The American historian and Japan specialist Carol Gluck is the new Leiden Cleveringa professor for the 2014–2015 academic year. On 26 November 2014 sh...
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'Cleveringa’s protest teaches us the value of a strong community’ 26 November 2013
What can we learn from Cleveringa’s courageous protest speech? ‘Without imagination and a strong community, people do not stand up for one another,' s...
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Michael Ignatieff appointed Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University 21 November 2013
Michael Ignatieff, Canadian author, university professor and former politician, has been appointed Cleveringa Professor for the 2013-2014 academic yea...