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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor 01 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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Leonard Blussé receives prestigious Fukuoka Prize in Japan 11 September 2019
Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant 09 September 2019
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from Leiden 03 September 2019
The ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is fr...
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Finally signing the Sweat Room wall 03 September 2019
Dr. Mikihiro Moriyama was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1960. He first came to Leiden for a year in 1988, and then stayed from 1992 to 1995 and was back aga...
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Faculty Teaching Prize nominees in the spotlight 02 September 2019
Who will win this year's Teaching Prize of the Faculty of Humanities? On Thursday September 12th, we will find out during the faculty party in the Sta...
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NWO grant for Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen 29 July 2019
Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen have been awarded funding from the NWO's Free Competition Humanities. They received the grant for their researc...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars 25 July 2019
Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...
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The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy 04 July 2019
To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...
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Alumnus Chris Colijn on his traineeship at a think tank, his master’s degree and advice for other graduates 01 July 2019
What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his master’s in Russian and Euras...
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Prestigious Japanese Fukuoka Prize for Leonard Blussé 27 June 2019
Leonard Blussé, emeritus Professor in the History of European and Asian relations, will receive the prestigious Japanese Academic Fukuoka Prize. Bluss...
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Historian Jeroen Duindam receives Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences first class 17 June 2019
On June 14th, Jeroen Duindam, Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities, was awarded an exceptionally high distinction for his achievements in...
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Something else than writing an essay: Ruben made a documentary for an assignment 27 May 2019
Ruben van Gaalen used a very unique approach for a course of the research master Colonial and Global History: instead of writing an essay, he went to ...
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Habsburg family pulled strings to bring raiders of English North Cape expedition to justice 24 May 2019
Richard Chancellor, the English Willem Barentsz, discovered the North Cape during the first English expedition to attempt to find a northeast passage....
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Call for Papers: Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000 23 May 2019
Call for Papers for the conference Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000, Leiden University, 22-...