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Femke van de Griendt: ‘Dutch is so much more than just spelling the letters d and t’ 05 March 2021
Femke is a third-year student of Dutch Language and Culture. She was a board member for a year, did an internship in times of COVID-19, and above all ...
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High level appointment for EIBL alumnus Martin Richardson 04 March 2021
Martin Richardson, who graduated in 1997 from what was then the Leiden LLM Programme in European Community Law (now: Leiden Adv LLM European and Inter...
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New tenure track: understanding and engineering microbial metabolism for health and sustainability 01 March 2021
On 1 March, Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski will start on a tenure track position at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). With a focus on the natura...
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Maintaining Order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia 16 February 2021
On 21 January 2021, Fachrizal Afandi defended his thesis ‘Maintaining Order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia...
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ACPA appoints new academic director 16 February 2021
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who hel...
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Martijn Ridderbos reappointed vice-chairman 11 February 2021
Martijn Ridderbos has been reappointed vice-chairman of the Executive Board of Leiden University by the Board of Governors.
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KHMW appoints five new Leiden members 10 February 2021
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed five new members from Leiden. Annetje Ottow, Carsten de Dreu, Pancras Hoogen...
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Building land tenure systems: The political, legal, and institutional struggles of Timor-Leste 10 February 2021
Bernardo Almeida will give a webinar on Building land tenure systems in Timor-Leste on February 18, 2021, from 15.30 - 17.00. This webinar is organise...
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa 09 February 2021
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two...
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New Executive Board at Leiden University 09 February 2021
Leiden University has a new Executive Board. Since 8 February 2021, Annetje Ottow has been the new President and Hester Bijl the new Rector Magnificus...
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis 08 February 2021
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies ...
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi 04 February 2021
Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the alg...
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Dr Mamadou Hébié appointed as Associate Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies 04 February 2021
Leiden Law School and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies are very pleased to announce that Dr Mamadou Hébié will be re-joining the Gro...
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‘Looking back, this past year will be a very important period in my life’ 01 February 2021
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
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Podcast: Carel Stolker on coronavirus, vlogging and the void 26 January 2021
In a few weeks’ time Carel Stolker will be retiring as Rector Magnificus. In a double episode of the Science Shots podcast, we take stock: what were t...