In the media
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' 14 October 2025A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asi...
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Benoit Pols on European Lawblog: ‘The EU is reluctant to link trade to migration enforcement’ 10 July 2025Why doesn’t the EU use market power to enforce migration readmission? Student Benoit Pols explains on the European Lawblog why trade sanctions remain ...
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Colleagues on The Conversation 03 July 2025Over the past year, twelve articles by Leiden humanities scholars have been published on The Conversation, an English-language platform that translate...
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Looi van Kessel on The Conversation: ‘Their passing is a reminder of the fragility of queer lives’ 14 January 2025Assistant professor Looi van Kessel writes in The Conversation about the passing of drag performer The Vivienne, reflecting on their significance for ...
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year 19 December 2024Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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Leiden University to continue membership of The Conversation 09 December 2024Looking to share your academic results or insights with a global audience? Leiden University is a ‘contributing member’ of the international journalis...
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The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’ 18 November 2024The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant politica...
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Nadine Akkerman discusses Spycraft on BBC and History Extra Podcasts 28 August 2024Nadine Akkerman recently appeared as a guest on a BBC podcast and the History Extra podcast to discuss her book Spycraft. In these interviews, she del...
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications 23 August 2024Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in Th...
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘ 07 June 2024
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and w...
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Bert van den Berg on The Conversation: "Ancient scroll reveals new story of Plato’s death" 04 June 2024University Lecturer Bert van Den Berg shares about the recent research by The Greek Philosophical Schools project in Italy. The research sheds new lig...
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Miko Flohr in BBC documentary about Pompeii 23 April 2024University lecturer Miko Flohr talks in a new BBC documentary about how people responded to the eruption of 79, and on whether or not they were excava...
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne 15 February 2024Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on fil...
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Liselore Tissen in Leiden Global on ‘bridging the gap between technology and the humanities’ 23 November 2023External PhD Candidate Liselore Tissen was interviewed by Leiden Global about her work, in which she uses 3D printing. Recently she made a copy of a d...
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Adriaan van der Weel in multiple media on the Ljubljana Manifesto 19 October 2023Professor Emeritus by special appointment Adriaan van der Weel has co-authored a manifesto on the importance of higher-reading.