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MA students visit the Anne Frank House for a unique visit with a Leiden History MA alumna01 December 2025On Tuesday November 25, 2025, Sarah Cramsey travelled with students from her masters seminar on 'New Approached to the Holocaust in Central and Easter...
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Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?Social Sciences Connect 01 December 2025Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the world. Over the next five yea...
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Ten Leiden students receive prize for outstanding achievementPrijs 01 December 2025Ten Leiden students have received a prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). They were nominated by their degree progra...
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LUC The Hague once again recognised as a national top programme28 November 2025Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges at Leiden University College The Hague has once again been awarded the coveted Top programme label. This ...
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Princeton fellowship for LUC historian Jacqueline HylkemaNews 28 November 2025Jacqueline Hylkema, a cultural historian at LUC, will be appointed at Princeton University from January to June 2026. There, she will conduct research...
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Vidi grants for research on sexual intimacy using robots and the life-course impact of criminal sanctions27 November 2025Two colleagues have each received a prestigious Vidi grant. We spoke to criminologist and Associate Professor Hilde Wermink, and Eduard Fosch Villaron...
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Sustainability Monitor 2024: Leiden University slashes carbon emissions and strengthens role in climate transition27 November 2025The Sustainability Monitor 2024 reveals that Leiden University has again taken significant steps to become a more sustainable and future-proof univers...
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Prof. dr. Cramsey and Ms. Boróka Balogh participated in “Woman & Science” Event at the Residence of the Austrian Ambassador to The Netherlands27 November 2025On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Ambassador Bert Theuerman (Austrian Ambassador to The Netherlands) hosted a Coffeehouse Discussion exploring the positi...
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The Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden presents a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague27 November 2025On Sunday, November 9 2025, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey presented a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague.
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Fenna IJtsma delved into four centuries of Leiden greenery: 'Leiden people have always sought out greenery'Inspiration from history for climate-proof city 27 November 2025Over the past year, historian Fenna IJtsma delved into 'four centuries of historical greenery'. As part of the Heritage Deal, with input from biologis...
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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Mr. Seán Ivory, the Mr. Hugo Weiland Prize Winner for Best Thesis in Central European studies, presents his thesis research27 November 2025On Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, Mr. Seán Ivory (VU) presented part of his prize-winning research in a lunch talk entitled Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politi...
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity27 November 2025What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the ans...
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Alumnus Fradinta Laksmita: ‘Finance affects almost every part of life’Alumni interview 27 November 2025Fradinta Laksmita came to Leiden in 2023 for the Advanced Master Law & Finance during her sabbatical. She has since returned to Jakarta and now works ...
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Celebrating 20 years of Sino-Dutch environmental researchHIGH-LEVEL VISIT 27 November 2025Smarter construction, cleaner energy and greener cities: This week, we welcomed a high-level delegation at CML. A visit that marks 20 years of Sino-Du...