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A quick call with Erick van Zuijlen about the Christmas Carol Concert
We will mark the start of Christmas together in the Great Auditorium on 22 December, with the Sempre Crescendo student music company singing Christmas carols for our students and staff. Enjoy atmospheric organ music, sing-along carols and mulled wine afterwards. ‘It’ll be a gem of an event,’ says Beadle…
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Executive Board column: A look back at the strategic conference
Our annual strategic conference was held this year on 15 and 16 June in Soesterberg, and has now become a tradition at our university.
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Unequal academic freedom: women’s expertise more likely to be questioned
Nadia Bouras will give the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on 6 March. She will call for academic freedom for everyone.
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Iran deserves our attention: ‘We must share our knowledge about this conflict’
‘Don’t forget us. Don’t stop talking about Iran.’ In a packed lecture hall at the new Spui Campus in The Hague, a panel discussion was held this Tuesday on recent developments, tensions and the wave of state violence in Iran.
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Executive Board visits Institute of Environmental Sciences: ‘Optimism-led solutions’
The Executive Board is visiting the university’s institutes to find out what is going on. On 8 July 2025, it was the turn of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), one of the fastest-growing institutes at Leiden University. ‘Our main aim is to preserve our planet for future generations.’
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Introducing: Sara de Wit
Sara de Wit has recently joined the Institute for History as an Assistant Professor in African Studies and will work on a new interdisciplinary research project to develop a humanities approach on Digital Health in Africa. Below, she introduces herself.
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’
Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.
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Introducing Matthew Broad
Matthew Broad recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. He introduces himself.
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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Message on the timeline for the conclusion of the exploratory phase
Organisation
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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How do you find your way as an early career researcher in the academic pressure cooker?
How do you find your was as an early career researcher in the academic pressure cooker?
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Footballer and journalist Nikki IJzerman: 'I want to dive into the background of the news'
Give Nikki IJzerman a football and she’s happy. The midfielder was named Player of the Year by ADO Den Haag last season, as well as obtaining her master’s degree in Journalism and New Media.
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Assignments for LDE trainees wanted: deadline 27 March
Human resources
- Changes in LLInC’s structure and ways of working
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Teams formed to lead university themes
The teams that will lead the themes guiding Leiden University’s strategic positioning in the coming years have been formed.
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Organisations and young alumni provide valuable career tips during Meet the Employer Week
Career Services of the Faculties Governance and Global Affairs, Social Sciences, and Humanities joined forces to organise the ‘Meet the Employer’ Week held from 6 – 10 December 2021!
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Virologist Meta Roestenberg and Arabist Petra Sijpesteijn elected as members of KNAW
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected 16 new members, including two academics from Leiden: internist-infectiologist Meta Roestenberg and Arabist Petra Sijpesteijn.
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Construction on the streets around Arsenaal and Huizinga
Organisation
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Why Academia in Motion symposium is not to be missed
The future of publishing and PhD research, engaging society in research and leadership that suits your role and personality will be the focus of the Academia in Motion symposium at PLNT.
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Podcasts for Whitsun
Fancy listening to a podcast over the long Whitsun weekend? Over the past few months, some excellent work has once again been produced at the faculty.
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Louie Buana receives Philippus Corts Fund grant
Louie Buana, a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, has been awarded the 5th Philippus Corts Fund grant, together with Wengki Ariando and Adrian Perkasa, for their joint book project 'Whose Nusantara? New narratives on decolonizing Indonesian knowledge and archipelagic futures'. The goal of the…
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Three PhD defences in one day on religious coexistence in Ghana
Last Tuesday was a special day: three researchers defended their PhD dissertations in succession as part of the same project. Martin Luther Darko, Kauthar Khamis and Rashida Adum-Atta investigated how people of different religions coexist in Madina in Ghana.
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Webinar Transfusion Medicine and Cellular and Tissue Therapies
Study information
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Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI (FAIR-ASSESS)
Deliberative assembly
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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MA Asian studies Graduate Student Conference: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Conference
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Frans de Ruiter Study Day
Conference
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Public Debate: Europe, the US and Russia in turbulent times: views from the Polish EU Presidency
Debate
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
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Travelers defense course for female staff members
Personal development
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?
Debate, Roundtable
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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Frontiers of Children's Rights: A Summer School for Professionals
Study information
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Onboarding for formal leaders and managers
Leadership, Management
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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Upcoming Elections in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru: A New Turn to the Right?
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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Public Speaking Competition for Students of Dutch Studies
Arts and culture, Competition
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Kick-off meeting Health Humanities
Lecture
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Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art
Conference
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Una Europa Community Meet-up for students: free to attend!
Community Meet-up & Networking
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New Perspectives on the Presentation of Japanese Art II
Lecture, Seminar
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Genuine or fake? Authentication of Gandhara sculptures
VVIK Lecture
- Training: writing and pitching for The Conversation
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Materiality and Historical Research
Conference, Workshop
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United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy: Aid for dominance
Lecture, Book Launch
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Keynote Address: The Kindness of Others: Jews, Christians and Early Childhood Care in Medieval Europe
Lecture
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Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk: "Introducing the Visiting Professor"
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk