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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch26 June 2020Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His corresponden...
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Pilgrims came to Leiden for ‘brain training’04 June 2020The Pilgrims to America exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal inspires reflection. How far do you go in the quest for freedom? It focuses on the Pilgrims’ ...
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Anar Ahmadov awarded fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study29 May 2020Anar Ahmadov, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at LUC, has been awarded NIAS Individual Fellowship by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced S...
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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance Day05 May 2020This 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 stories23 April 2020Remembrance 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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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career03 March 2020Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration21 January 2020Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the...
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood13 January 2020New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in O...
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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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‘Rembrandt has come home’04 November 2019Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. There are still numerous other activities such as lectures, the University...
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator21 October 2019Emeritus professors Dirk van Delft and Frits Berends both channelled their inner Sherlock Holmes as they delved into the life and work of the great ph...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition10 October 2019A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...
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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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Never too young to learn: Leiden University in the 3 October parade30 September 2019For the first time ever, a float from Leiden University is taking part in the Grand Parade during the Relief of Leiden or Leidens Ontzet. October 3 is...