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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University 12 June 2025To celebrate the formal launch of the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC, 莱顿华语酷儿文献收藏), promote Chinese queer studies scholarship, and raise the vis...
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A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede 11 June 2025Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) fought for greater popular influence with blazing pamphlets and even a coup d’état. In his PhD dissertation, ...
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Save the date: Inter- en transdisciplinary event 'Knowledge Orchard' 28 november 2025 11 June 2025The Knowledge Orchard is a jubilee event at Leiden University to highlight, stimulate and strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation inside a...
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Alumni from the French Language and Culture programme return to Leiden: ‘I feel like an ambassador for the language’ 10 June 2025The pews of the Walloon Church were filled on Friday 23 May, as more than 120 former students of the French Language and Culture programme gathered to...
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Esther Rachow presents 'New Paradigms of Holocaust Education in the Digital Age' at the Austria Centre Leiden 10 June 2025In April 2025, Ms. Esther Rachow from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem presenting her ongoing doctoral research at an Austria Centre Leiden lunch-ti...
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’ 10 June 2025‘Our infrastructure is under attack, elections are being influenced and political assassinations being committed. We’re already at war – it just looks...
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How can we future-proof our teaching and education? 10 June 2025Innovative, future-proof teaching methods were the theme of the tenth Leiden Teachers’ Academy Education Conference that took place on 5 June. In time...
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English Department turns 75: English Studies alive and kicking in Leiden 06 June 2025At the end of May, the Leiden English Language and Culture Programme, formerly known as the Department of English Language and Literature, celebrated ...
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Children learn how medicines work: ‘Some pills go in your bottom!’ 05 June 2025A pill can make you better, but how exactly does it work? Primary school children from The Hague found out during a visit to the Centre for Human Drug...
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“Hope springs eternal”: Protest and social movements in the Netherlands 05 June 2025Mariska Jung (FGGA), Looi van Kessel (FGW), and Jasmijn Rana (FSW) have received a KIEM grant of €10,000 together with the Institute for Social Justic...
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Demonstration, security and university ties: Executive Board answers University Council’s questions 03 June 2025The University Council meeting on 2 June was largely dominated by the demonstration, occupation and policing in The Hague last month. Questions were a...
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Una Europa in action: building a stronger future through collaboration 03 June 2025Funding and training for researchers, a collaborative vision and strategy for teaching, and ways to amplify the voices of students. These are a few of...
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD 03 June 2025A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition ...
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Discover wildlife on campus with BioBlitz 02 June 2025Did you get a taste for recording local wildlife with Expeditie Stadsnatuur? Join the higher education BioBlitz and help us discover what is growing, ...
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50 years of Dispuut Pleyte: “At get-togethers I walked across the Rapenburg with boxes full of glasses” 02 June 2025Party for Dispuut Pleyte (so called after the 19th-century Dutch Egyptologist). The study association for Ancient Near Eastern studies and Classics an...