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Nasreen Javanjoo reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference 21 November 2025The "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference, organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, hosted many talented young researchers alongside esta...
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Hundreds join Leiden Reclaim the Night march 19 November 2025‘Let’s get everyone home safely!’ This was the message of an estimated 750 demonstrators as they marched through the centre of Leiden on 18 November. ...
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A place to belong: ESN Leiden wins the Student Well-being Award 18 November 2025At the annual reversed constitution reception (omgekeerde constitutieborrel), the Executive Board presents an award to a student organization that has...
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Get started with a new teacher's guide for transdisciplinary education 18 November 2025Transdisciplinary education, in which students work with external parties, is getting more popular. How do you start such a programme as a teacher? Th...
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Is there room to challenge the status quo at universities? 18 November 2025How is academic freedom restricted by the academic community itself? This was the central question at a debate at Leiden University on 14 November. To...
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Introducing: Eline Westra 18 November 2025Eline Westra recently joined the Institute for History as a postdoctoral researcher in the NWA-funded project 'Dilemmas of Doing Diversity', under the...
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Hester Bijl on academic freedom, LERU and the General Assembly in Leiden 18 November 2025Last week, Leiden University welcomed the rectors of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) to the autumn edition of the Rector’s Assembl...
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The Alternative Reading List Awards 2025 18 November 2025Who can pitch a book so well that everyone wants to read it? These are the winners of the 2025 Alternative Reading List Awards.
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‘Building Academic Freedom’: on extremism and taboos at the university 17 November 2025On Tuesday 25 November, Leiden University is holding the first of four sessions on ‘Building Academic Freedom’. Students and staff are invited to a co...
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The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’ 17 November 2025The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which or...
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Municipalities too eager to digitalise, professor warns 17 November 2025Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serv...
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Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz 17 November 2025Congratulations to Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz, who have just won a Leiden University Global Seed Fund. Their proposed project entails 'Climate Talks...
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking 14 November 2025Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic...
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Sempre Crescendo: a close-knit group of musical students 14 November 2025In 2026, Sempre Crescendo student orchestra and choir will celebrate its 195th anniversary. In the run-up to this anniversary, they will give three co...
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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference 14 November 2025In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish St...