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Touring exhibition 'Presenting with the city' opened at Lipsius 19 April 2024The touring exhibition 'Presenting with the city' has touched down in the Lipsius Building. In the presentation, students and researchers show how the...
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‘One day of lessons and the Boa people can read their own language’ 18 April 2024Until recently the Congo’s isolated Boa community had never read a single letter in their own language: quite simply, there was no alphabet to describ...
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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel 18 April 2024The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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Call for statements of interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective" 16 April 2024
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’ 16 April 2024From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Dieg...
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Panoramic: The Leiden Art Review 15 April 2024For twenty years, the Art History study programme had its own journal, the highly successful Decorum, which was written and edited by students. When t...
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’ 15 April 2024Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic inter...
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How AI helps map sign languages 15 April 2024Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...
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Andries Hiskes: 'The disabled body is too often ignored’ 15 April 2024Bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. For his PhD, Andries Hiskes researched the disabled body and the reactions it can bring.
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Angus Mol, new LUCDH director: 'We want to be a point of contact' 15 April 2024Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) has had a new director since 1 February. Associate Professor Angus Mol wants to connect people...
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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In memoriam: Alexander Hendrik (Sander) de Groot (3 april 1943 - 1 april 2024) 12 April 2024Op maandag 1 april 2024 stierf onze leermeester, vriend en gewaardeerd collega Dr. Alexander Hendrik de Groot (Sander).
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Religious Studies students "learn with the city": bridging the gap between religion and society 10 April 2024Three students in Elpine de Boer’s class “Practicing Religious Studies” have been working together on a “Leren met de Stad” (“Learning with the City”)...
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How live bloggers balance speed and credibility 28 March 2024PhD candidate Sebastiaan van de Lubben has written live blogs about Leiden politics. But how do you go about covering an event while it unfolds? ‘You ...
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Susanna Lindberg: ‘I want to protect our plurality and openness’ 26 March 2024Professor Susanna Lindberg has been appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Philosophy with effect from 1 February. In her new role, she ai...