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Dutch Student Orchestra celebrates female composer: 'Deserve to be heard' 05 February 2024
Every year in February, ninety students who love making music come together in Someren, a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Through rehears...
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Fun opening of the second semester: 'Let's support each other' 05 February 2024
On the first day of February, employees of the Faculty of Humanities gathered in the Faculty Club. They were there to usher in the new semester, while...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024
Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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Simone van der Hof writes UNICEF Essay on 'Towards better protection of children's rights as consumers of play' 02 February 2024
Children have the right to play and relax. Games, social media and video platforms are attractive new ways to do that. However, hardly any online game...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri speaker at CPDP Data Protection Day 02 February 2024
Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor at eLaw Leiden, was invited as a speaker on two panels at the special CPDP Data Protection Day on 25 January...
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness? 02 February 2024
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Econo...
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Master’s student fundraising for research into lost human sense 02 February 2024
Can humans sense where north is, using what is known as magnetoreception? This question had master’s student Björn Keyser (Media Technology) so intrig...
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Give peace a chance: the way conflict can be eased, according to social psychology 01 February 2024
How to reduce aggression when two parties are at odds? PhD research by psychologist Lennart Reddmann shows that it can help to offer them a peaceful a...
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Announcement new name Cluster Zuid 01 February 2024
Today, Leiden University announces who the new Cluster Zuid on the Witte Singel will be named after. Summer 2023, a ballot determined the name of the ...
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Employment law update by Jamie Korporaal and Fieke Weber 01 February 2024
Jamie Korporaal and Fieke Weber, teaching staff at the Department of Labour Law and Social Security, recently published an item in the ‘Tijdschrift vo...
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Leah wins FGGA thesis award: ‘I was able to be creative in my research’ 01 February 2024
Every year during the Dies Natalis, the Leiden University Thesis Prizes are awarded. Each faculty selects its best thesis for this purpose. FGGA's bes...
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eLaw master's student wins thesis award from Dutch Data Protection Authority 01 February 2024
On on 29 January 2024, it was announced that Aylin Alexa Zainea has won the Thesis Award from the Dutch Data Protection Authority. She wrote her thesi...
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy 01 February 2024
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger a...
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day 01 February 2024
The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years...
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Deans in the lecture halls: 'I can imagine that students enjoy being here.' 01 February 2024
Do all graduates in the humanities pursue a career in education? What does support for incoming students look like in Leiden? And what makes a languag...