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Join the Humans of Humanities film premiere in Trianon!The humanities consist of various academic fields. But what is the common ground of all these different academics and students? And why does their wor...
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It takes two to Tango – Current status
For a while now there has been little news about the measures that emerged following the publication of the It takes two to Tango report. That doesn’t...
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Need a (new) photo for on your profile page? Have your photo taken on the 10th or 13th of FebruaryDo you need a new profile photo? Or you don't have one yet? Come to the staff members photo shoot on the 10th or 13th of February in the P.J. Vethbuil...
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How the Dutch Press brought foreign suffering close in the Seventeenth CenturyThe big European wars of religion ended with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, but still religious minorities were persecuted in Europe....
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Two Van Bergen Prize winners: bringing Dutch and international students togetherNot one, but two initiatives have been awarded with the Van Bergen Prize at the Diversity Symposium on 22 January. ‘Leiden City Safari’ will give inco...
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Ten nominees for the first faculty impact awardOn Thursday January 23rd during the Faculty New Year’s meeting, dean Mark Rutgers will award the first faculty impact award to an employee whose educa...
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‘There’s a difference between inclusion and change’If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University’s annual Diversity S...
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed t...
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Colonisation and migration in New-AmericaMigration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhoodNew housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in O...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Vivian Ng: ‘Because of my job, I’m meeting new people, so it doesn’t feel like working to me’Vivian studies the Global Political Economy specialisation of the MA International Relations and is the coordinator of the Humanities Buddy Programme....
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Introducing: Athanasios StathopoulosAthanasios Stathopoulos is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History since August 2019, but has been a familiar face at Leiden University sin...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist viewsThe idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Recommendations from the Student Well-being TaskforceWe know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden Univers...