News
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The Dutch were masters of forgeries and fake news in the seventeenth century 22 March 2024
A book with a fake printer, a pamphlet with a treaty that does not exist and an execution print with a supportive crowd: just some examples of forgeri...
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress 15 February 2024
The varied mix of dress styles and many shades of black will no longer be seen at PhD ceremonies: permission was recently given for all members of the...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons 28 November 2023
From 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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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University! 16 November 2023
In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are going to celebrate this with our students, staff, alum...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history 24 November 2022
It 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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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer 21 September 2022
Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointe...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance 10 May 2022
On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staf...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022
During 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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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting 08 February 2022
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the n...
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Indonesian resistance hero and Leiden student Irawan Soejono is given a face 28 January 2022
To mark its 75th anniversary, the Netherlands War Graves Foundation is publishing a portrait of a war victim every week this year. On 24 January the d...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022
As 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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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam 27 October 2021
Almost 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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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’ 09 June 2021
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protest...
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A university in times of corona: one year on 15 March 2021
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we foun...