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The Alternative Reading List Awards 202518 November 2025Who can pitch a book so well that everyone wants to read it? These are the winners of the 2025 Alternative Reading List Awards.
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Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Yanise Zijlstra make short film: 'Intangible heritage you can't put into words'Impact Explorer grant 18 November 2025University lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven was to be a guest in one podcast by culture maker and anthropologist Yanise Zijlstra on intangible heritag...
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The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’Student research 17 November 2025The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which or...
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Banned almost–prime minister of Thailand: ‘Politics must be moral and realistic’Interview 17 November 2025Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forw...
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Municipalities too eager to digitalise, professor warnsInaugural lecture 17 November 2025Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serv...
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Bachelor’s students Law and Criminology take centre stage at graduation ceremonyGraduation 17 November 2025On 7 November, we marked an important milestone for our Law and Criminology bachelor's students who celebrated at their graduation ceremony.
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Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz17 November 2025Congratulations to Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz, who have just won a Leiden University Global Seed Fund. Their proposed project entails 'Climate Talks...
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies15 November 2025On Friday, November 7, 2025, the Leiden Jewish Studies Network together with the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) and the MA Program...
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How adolescents can become resilient to digital misinformationMisinformation 14 November 2025Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also ha...
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Higher CO2 levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritiousFood crops 14 November 2025More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more calorific, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause m...
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking14 November 2025Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic...
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Craig Crews awarded the Havinga Medal 202514 November 2025Professor Craig M. Crews of Yale University (USA) is the recipient of the 2025 Havinga Medal.
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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference14 November 2025In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish St...
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Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)14 November 2025We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden betwe...
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Working past 60 while staying healthy: grant awarded for Leiden research13 November 2025Many people work less after turning 60 which is not helping the economy. Egbert Jongen, Professor of Economics, will explore with his team how employe...