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Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests 10 February 2025Workshops, tours, talks, music, an AI photobooth, interviews, a special poem and the launch of the LUF Children’s Fund. Alumni celebrated their alma m...
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Step by Step to the Future: A Conversation Between Two Deans 10 February 2025As one prepares for the final sprint, the other stands ready at the starting blocks: in just a few weeks, Dean Mark Rutgers will pass the baton to his...
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’ 07 February 2025An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freed...
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Call for Papers: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850 07 February 2025
Keynote speakers: Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo SUNY) and Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’ 07 February 2025Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights a...
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From celestial bodies to plant bodies: exhibition brings together worlds of plants and planets 06 February 2025The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus...
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Major Leiden symposium on TB bacteria 05 February 2025More than 1.3 million people worldwide die of tuberculosis (TB) each year, making research on its prevention and control essential. Researchers from v...
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Five years of Pre-University The Hague: alumni share their experiences 04 February 2025Pre-University College The Hague is celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2024-2025. Three alumni look back on their experience. PRE broadened their ac...
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New University Sports Centre reaches highest point 04 February 2025In a topping out ceremony on Thursday 30 January, the new sports centre celebrated reaching its highest point and looked ahead to the future. The univ...
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Executive Board visits institutes: ‘We want to talk to our colleagues in the place where it all happens’ 04 February 2025Board members Annetje Ottow and Hester Bijl recently visited the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL, Faculty of Humanities) and the Mathem...
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago 03 February 2025An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February. Just like i...
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In extremis: five extremes in 450 years of Leiden research 03 February 2025By looking at what is different, researchers often discover the special, the unusual. And that has already brought a wealth of highlights – also in Le...
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First part of the ITK audit: ‘Candid and open sessions’ 30 January 2025This month, the first part of the quality assurance audit (ITK) took place. A team of auditors from the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (N...
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Update from the Executive Board on the announced budget cuts 28 January 2025The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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New Faculty of Humanities spending reduction plan 28 January 2025The Faculty of Humanities has shared a new spending reduction plan with its students and staff. Although the plans are less sweeping than previous one...