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How do we experience music? Vocational students to explore this at a festival 11 September 2025Many of us love music, but we don’t understand why exactly that is – or how our individual experiences of music can differ. Rebecca Schaefer will rese...
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Oldest parts of Leiden University Archives digitised 11 September 2025Recently, the oldest parts of the Leiden University Archives have been preserved and digitised thanks to a grant from Metamorfoze. This makes an impor...
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A quick call with... the beadle about inaugural lectures in Lokhorstkerk 09 September 2025Inaugural lectures and PhD ceremonies are usually held in the Grand Auditorium in the Academy Building. Due to its temporary closure for the installat...
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CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers 09 September 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop organized as part of the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers', taking place on 26–...
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Pride is a celebration, but also a fight for visibility 08 September 2025‘Be yourself. Be as gay, queer, trans as you can and show the world you exist.’ These rousing words from Looi van Kessel marked the start of the third...
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Sunny message during rainy Faculty Year Opening 08 September 2025It was pouring with rain during the Opening of the Faculty Year, but in the Oranjerie, Dean Henk te Velde had a positive message for those present: th...
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Faculty Teaching Prize for Mike Schmidli 08 September 2025Assistant Professor Mike Schmidli has won the 2025 Faculty Teaching Prize. The Education Committee praised his commitment not only to teaching student...
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Executive Board adopts committee’s recommendations on Israel-Palestine 04 September 2025The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and...
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa Professor 04 September 2025The French political theorist Hélène Landemore, known for her critical perspective on modern democracies, has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Pro...
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Improved Financial Outlook Faculty of Humanities 2026–2030 02 September 2025In the short term, no reorganisation is foreseen within the Faculty of Humanities, nor are any compulsory redundancies expected. Nonetheless, structur...
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant 02 September 2025Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...
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What will university be like in the future? Vote for your favourite ‘uni-vision’ 02 September 2025What will it be like to study at Leiden University in 2075? Ten surprising, artistic uni-visions could be brought to life. It’s up to you to vote for ...
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Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you' 01 September 2025The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge the...
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SUP for Sustainability: students clean up the Leiden canals 01 September 2025Some thirty Leiden students balanced on SUP boards for the Supping for Sustainability Lustrum activity. Together with alumnus Merijn Tinga, better kno...
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Hi Mette, bye Nova: changing of the guard for student member of the Faculty Board 28 August 2025Nova Verkerk has represented the interests of students as assessor for the past two years. Now her term has come to an end, and on 1 September she wil...