139 search results for “letters” in the Student website
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Job opportunity: Faculty member of the Leiden University Student platform (LUS) 2024-2025
Organisation
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Erasmus+ for Teaching Assignments
PhD, Staff
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Studying with a visual disability
Having a visual disability can impact your learning at Leiden University.
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Apply to become Leiden University’s Student Representative to Una Europa
Education
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Humanities Lab - Application procedure
Take a look at the admission requirements and application procedures.
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Uhlenbeck conference scholarship
Master
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Student Assistant for the Intelligence Research Group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Human resources
- Minister Dijkgraaf announces extra investment in universities
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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A New Year's Resolution for 2024: plan your career
Social
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What’s Next? First steps in crafting your career
What energises you, what are your talents, and how can you use all this in your future job? These are essential questions that will help you to identify your career options and design your future. The What’s Next? course offers the opportunity to find answers to them.
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Committee debate on internationalisation in higher education – input from universities
Education
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Opportunity LExS Scholarship - Research Master African Studies 2024-2026
Leiden University offers one full Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS) to an African candidate interested in the two-year Research Master African Studies programme (ResMA AS); thus non-EEA/non-EFTA* applicants. LExS is a prestigious scholarship and includes a fee waiver up until the statutory…
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Dutch Student Orchestra celebrates female composer: 'Deserve to be heard'
Every year in February, ninety students who love making music come together in Someren, a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Through rehearsals and festivities over ten days, they transform into the latest version of the Dutch Student Orchestra (NSO), which then performs concerts in the Netherlands…
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Children’s Rights Scholarship 1
Master
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LU-Card
All students at Leiden University should have a university ID card, known as a LU-Card.
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Other disabilities
Not every person who experiences chronic challenges identifies with the term disability.
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Studying with a chronic illness
A chronic illness is a long-term and persistent health condition that can impact your learning at Leiden University.
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Studying with a hearing disability
Having a hearing disability is a health condition that can impact your learning at Leiden University.
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CWTS Scientometrics Summer School (CS3)
Research
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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- Vacancy: Student assistant for Digital Humanities project
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Studying with dyslexia
Dyslexia is a learning disorder which is common among students and can impact your studies at Leiden University.
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FAQ Application & Admission
This webpage offers you the most frequently asked questions and answers provided by staff and students themselves.
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Erasmus+ for Training
PhD, Staff
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Sign up for a Student Support Group!
Social
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Be alert when you scan QR codes
ICT
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Internship: Assistant Programme Officer Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme
Organisation
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Broaden your horizon: apply for a Bachelor Honours Class!
Education
- Apply now for a Bachelor Honours Class!
- Apply now for the Europaeum Policy Making Seminar 2023
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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'Curators are ordinary people who sometimes find themselves in extraordinary circumstances'
Ruurd Halbertsma combines his work as a curator and professor by special appointment with writing thrillers. 'I'd rather respond to the discussion on looted art this way than by joining talk shows.'
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers
What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Mariken Teeuwen will talk about the texts they wrote in the margin.
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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Leiden Classics: The paradox of student association Minerva
Minerva, which calls itself the oldest student association of the Netherlands, has the reputation of being an impenetrable bastion. A lustrum exhibition shows the turbulent history and points to a diversity of contacts: from close bonds with Leiden ‘coffee ladies’ to the visit of Sir Winston Churchi…
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Students complete research traineeship: 'This is a good start for a career as researcher'
After seven months of hard work, the participants in the Research Traineeship Programme concluded their research on Friday 2 September with a pitch and a poster presentation.
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New! Latest acquisitions UBL, sorted by field on one page
Education, ICT, Library, Research
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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Vacancy: Research-Assistant Data Management Humanities
Research
- Job opportunity: Faculty member of the Leiden University Studentplatform (LUS) 2022-2023
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Job opportunity: Faculty member of the Leiden University Student platform (LUS) 2023-2024
Social
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English version podcast ‘Scandal and controversy in Russian literature’ launched
Following the success of the Dutch version, the podcast 'Scandal and Controversy in Russian Literature' is now also available in English. Senior University Lecturer Otto Boele guides listeners through eight infamous texts in this version.
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With kind regards: May 2022
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With kind regards: 1 November 2022
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With kind regards: 22 November 2022
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With kind regards: September 2022
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