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Student tower opened with café, common room and spectacular views26 April 2024The 289 students who recently moved into the tower on Kolffpad at the Leiden Bio Science Park are sitting pretty. They have the keys to a self-contain...
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands24 April 2024When you hear ‘Black Power’, you probably think of the United States. But in the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of th...
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Rafal Matuszewski awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership24 April 2024Dr. Rafal Matuszewski, assistant professor at the ancient history department of the Institute for History, has been awarded an Early Career Partnershi...
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Bob van Oosterhout: ‘Music is the common thread in my life’23 April 2024In addition to his Film and Literature Studies, Bob van Oosterhout is a bassoonist with several orchestras. He is going to Milan with the student choi...
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Professionals on a course: sound shapes public space23 April 2024When designing public spaces, noise is often a neglected issue. Architects and urban planners know little about it; noise experts see it mainly as a p...
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Election debate Student Council: catering, accessibility, and well-being22 April 2024The student elections for the student representatives of the Faculty Council will take place from 22 to 25 April. Prominent members of four student pa...
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Two researchers receive Rubicon grant for research abroad22 April 2024Uncovering ageing processes in the brain and research on the use of the word ‘that’. Thanks to a Rubicon Grant, two Leiden researchers who were recent...
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Touring exhibition 'Presenting with the city' opened at Lipsius19 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 kaartspel18 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 Review15 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 languages15 April 2024Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...