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Lara Offermans and Marijn Bethlehem win the LUCSoR thesis prizes (2019-2021) 31 October 2022
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two thesis prizes each year, one...
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Bosscha Medal for Professor Taniawati Supali 31 October 2022
At the opening of the LDE-BRIN Academy on 31 October, the Bosscha Medal was awarded to Professor Taniawati Supali from the Department of Parasitology ...
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Annemarie Drahmann appointed member of the NWO complaints committee 27 October 2022
Annemarie Drahmann, Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, has been appointed as a member of the complaints c...
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Omar Al Sadeh: ‘My heart told me to go to Foreign Affairs’ 27 October 2022
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on inte...
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Brechtje Paijmans appointed as endowed professor at Leiden University 25 October 2022
Stichting Onderwijsgeschillen (Foundation for Educational Disputes) is pleased to announce that it has established an endowed chair ‘Conflictoplossing...
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Peter van Es appointed Professor of Notarial Law 25 October 2022
Van Es is the successor to Professor Huijgen whose retirement is approaching after nearly 27 years’ professorship. This new appointment is from Octobe...
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Archaeologist Wei Chu explores Carpathian caves with Gerda Henkel grant 25 October 2022
Recently, archaeologist Dr Wei Chu received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for an excavation in the Carpathian Mountains. Originally planning ...
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Three Leiden researchers receive ERC Synergy Grant 25 October 2022
Leiden researchers Arjen Doelman, Tom Huizinga and Manfred Wuhrer have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants worth millions of euros for their research on p...
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group 24 October 2022
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Gr...
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor 20 October 2022
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she ...
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Ancois de Villiers receives PeerJ Award for Best Student Presentation 20 October 2022
Ancois de Villiers, PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, received the PeerJ Award for Best Student Prese...
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LUF grant for Neeltje Blankenstein: 'I want to study online risk behaviour of young people in its full depth' 19 October 2022
Neeltje Blankenstein receives an LUF grant to conduct research on online risk behaviour among young people. What risks do young people take online and...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers 18 October 2022
Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at ...
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Meet Foteini Tsigoni: ‘My role will be to help improve interactions between international and Dutch students’ 18 October 2022
Starting September 2022, Foteini Tsigoni is tasked by the Faculty of Archaeology to bring the different nationalities within the faculty community tog...
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature 17 October 2022
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will p...