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Book presentation 'Opportunities in the Kingdom'. 200 years of student financing 02 February 2016
On Monday, 1 February a beautifully designed and accessible book appeared about two centuries of student financing and apprenticeship in the Netherlan...
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Memorial volume for prof. Willem Willems 19 January 2016
On December 16th, almost exactly one year after we had to say goodbye to our colleague prof. dr. Willem Willems (1950-2014), a symposium was held in h...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic ...
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Book: The Colours of Energy 16 December 2015
Huub de Groot is one of the 55 authors for the book The Colours of Energy. The book consists of Essays on the Future of Energy in Society in which lea...
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Successful Book Launch and Dissent Event at the Grotius Centre 14 December 2015
On 11 December 2015, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies organized a seminar on "The Role of Dissent in International Law" in The Hague.
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Symposium Crisis Management in the Banking Sector 06 November 2015
On Friday 6 November, a symposium took place on the occasion of the publication of the ‘Research Handbook on Crisis Management in the Banking Sector’,...
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Book publication Ronald Cramer: a world premiere 05 November 2015
Ronald Cramer, in cooperation with Ivan Damgard and Jesper Nielsen (Aarhus University) have recently published the first book ever written on “quantum...
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Four short films about four centuries of freedom at Leiden University 04 November 2015
Four videos tell the story of the history of Leiden University. The films were premiered on 2 November during the Leiden Film Festival.
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The imagination as gaoler and as escape 30 October 2015
Fiction is more effective than autobiographical non-fiction when it comes to conveying the sensation of enforced solitary confinement. That is the con...
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New Book: A Grammar of Mandarin 12 October 2015
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed...
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Recently published: Encoded correspondence - edited by Nadine Akkerman 14 September 2015
Coming four years after part II, and totalling more than one thousand pages, the long awaited first part of the Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart (15...
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New Book: Edwin Bakker - Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: Comparing Theory and Practice 25 June 2015
Professor Edwin Bakker, director of the Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism, released his new book “Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: Compar...
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Daan Weggemans on recidivism and reintegration of jihadist former detainees 26 May 2015
Terrorism experts Daan Weggemans (Leiden University) and Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University) conducted one of the first scientific studies on the s...
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Book recommendation from ... Robert Stein 28 April 2015
Every month a member of the Institute for History tells about a book that inspired him or her. Afterwards, the pen is passed on to another colleague. ...
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Recently published: 'Rediscovering Architecture. Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory' 07 April 2015
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture ups...