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Recap LUMAN Launch 17 May 2023
On Thursday May 11, medical anthropologists from Leiden University organized a festive opening of their new network, the Leiden University Medical Ant...
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron 16 May 2023
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Pol...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje 15 May 2023
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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'Civil servants seem to have relatively more power than the minister' 15 May 2023
Marlinde Kapteijn studied Public Administration at Leiden University and decided to apply for an internship after her bachelor. While she enjoyed the ...
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Call for Applications: PhD Supervision Excellence Training for Academic Staff 11 May 2023
The European Network on Teaching Excellence invites applications from interested Academic Staff to participate in a five-day intensive training on PhD...
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Experience the beauty of the universe 11 May 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows us to look deeper into the universe than ever before. Not only does this provide a mass of data, but also...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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Education for Professionals at a glance 11 May 2023
The new Education for Professionals portal went live on 8 May. This is where professionals who want to broaden their horizons will find the complete r...
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International Relations’ alumni-student event: ‘Quality over quantity’ and other alumni advice for the job application process 10 May 2023
Practical advice, a panel discussion, and an informal networking reception: students and alumni from the MA International Relations can look back on y...
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum 10 May 2023
On 2 June 2023, the Liber Amicorum – 'The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet' – in honour of Marco Bronckers will be officially launched at Lei...
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Philosophising by making films: ‘I’ve never understood the material so well before.’ 10 May 2023
There was a time when student Lelani Antar wanted to go to film school. She ended up studying International Studies, yet she didn’t quite say goodbye ...
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past 09 May 2023
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to us...
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New course Experimentation I: Programming Psychological Experiments developed with Grass Shoots grant 04 May 2023
Last year, Henk van Steenbergen received a Grass Shoots grant to completely redevelop the research master's course 'Experimentation I: Programming Psy...
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In memoriam: Professor David Fontijn (1971-2023) 03 May 2023
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague, mentor, and friend prof. David Fontijn this Monday, May 1st, 2023. As he share...
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Hunting for life’s building blocks at minus 250 degrees Celsius 02 May 2023
Searching for life’s building blocks lightyears away is an important task of the James Webb Space Telescope. But how does it know what to look for? Ph...