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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’19 April 2022During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’18 January 2022As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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Lecture Antoaneta Dimitrova in Prague: Freedom is Precious30 November 2021Antoaneta Dimitrova, Professor Comparative Governance, presented the Cleveringa Lecture at the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague last week. We spoke to h...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust26 November 2021In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’11 November 2021Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Pol...
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam27 October 2021Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Gro...
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture12 October 2021On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust ...
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International lecture series on moral courage begins on 22 September13 September 2021A new series of webinars, the Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series, begins on 22 September. In this series of online conversations, expert...
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’11 May 2021
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other studen...
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‘Cleveringa’s legacy reminds us of the need to stay vigilant’27 November 2020The world let Rwanda down at the time of the genocide, and that can never be allowed to happen again, Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire declared in ...
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Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire on Rwanda and PTSD19 November 2020Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, but was unable to prevent a genocide from unfolding before his ...
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Njord writes book about its wartime history16 November 2020The new book, ‘Njord in de Oorlog’ (Njord during the War), describes how the Leiden student rowing club was affected by the Second World War in a deta...
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Maartje van der Woude speaker at Cleveringa Meeting Leiden 202020 October 2020All 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 professor13 October 2020Canadian 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 war07 May 2020Leiden 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...