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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’25 November 2019Through 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 2019Her 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 packing05 November 2019In 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 Professor01 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 biography17 January 2019Hiltje 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 2019In 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 Cleveringa08 January 2019He 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 2018The 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 2018Citizens underestimate their role, but they really can make a difference, says legal specialist Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen. Combatting injustice is ...
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Delegation Leiden Law School to Indonesia07 November 2018At the end of November/early December a delegation from Leiden Law School, led by Dean Joanne van der Leun, will a number of various partner universit...
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Protecting children is what inspires Cleveringa professor Dettmeijer-Vermeulen01 August 2018Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, the well-known legal expert and Leiden University alumna, was for many years the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in H...
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The story behind the war victims04 May 2018Herta Mohr was a promising Egyptologist who died in Bergen-Belsen. Lawyer Amandus Wolfsbergen died in Auschwitz, without knowing that the his work wou...
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war23 April 2018Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden Univers...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students06 March 2018A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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‘Japan and Leiden aren’t so far apart after all’04 December 2017A delegation from Leiden University visited Japan from 18 to 26 November to facilitate cooperation in research and teaching. The delegation also atten...