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A hopeful start to the year: ‘As a university, we can make the world a better place’
Working together in times of change. With enthusiasm, passion and connection as our keywords. That was the message emphasised by administrators Jasper Knoester and Luc Sels at the start of this new year for our Science faculty. ‘Hope for a better world means working together actively towards progres…
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Pressure on River Management Leads to more Frequent Flooding
In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because…
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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ESOF2022: Leiden Law School
EuroScience Open Forum – ESOF - is Europe’s biggest multidisciplinary and prestigious scientific conference. ESOF2022 will take place from 13-16 July 2022 and is hosted by Leiden as the European City of Science (in the Netherlands). The Kamerlingh Onnes Building is one of the locations of the ESOF and…
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Throwback to the End of the Academic Year Event on May 8: good food and good company
On May 8, the Faculty of Archaeology celebrated its yearly End of Academic Year Event. The event was a chance for staff and students to mingle, while enjoying a nice meal together.
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Thriving together: How Ghana’s forest communities and ecosystems stay resilient
At a time when the climate crisis demands global action, Leiden University College’s (LUC) research project REFloC (Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities) in Ghana is choosing a different path: listening closely.
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Archaeologist Lennart Kruijer's year: a Cum Laude dissertation, a grant, a fellowship
In May 2022 Lennart Kruijer succesfully defended his PhD, which he wrote as a member of the VICI Project ‘Innovating Objects’, led by prof. Miguel John Versluys. So succesfully, in fact, that he was awarded the Cum Laude honors. Just a short time later he was awarded a grant and a fellowship to further…
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Student mental health problems still common but less so than in covid year 2021
The number of students suffering from stress and anxiety has decreased slightly compared with 2021. But around half still suffer from mental health problems. This is according to the National Mental Health and Substance Use Monitor.
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of this.
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Frans de HaasFaculty of Humanities
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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
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Min ChoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Forging Global Citizens: Part 2
The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…
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More than 100 years of studying South Asia: ‘The view of the area is changing’
At the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), scholars have been studying the Indian subcontinent with attention and expertise for more than 100 years. This part of South Asia is an economic giant with a population of over two billion. Nira Wickramasinghe, Professor of Modern South Asian Studies,…
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175 years of the Constitution: ‘Its dryness makes it a success'
175 years ago, the Netherlands took great strides towards parliamentary democracy with a revamped Constitution. Where does the Constitution stand today?
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5 years Quantum Rules lab: ‘The best part is when you hear the penny drop with a student’
Quantum Rules lab van Leiden Universiteit biedt proefjes en experimenten voor middelbare scholieren om te leren over kwantum natuurkunde. Henk Buisman vertelt over het 5 jarige jubileum.
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deadline 15th of June: New master’s students for the upcoming academic year
Last Wednesday was the official deadline for students to apply for one of our master’s programmes. Some of our master’s programmes, such as History, organised a last call Q&A for students.
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla'
In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excavation in the city of Oss. The Middle Iron Age cemetery, built over by Roman Period farmhouses, proved to be the start of a unique archaeological regional…
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The Art of Cold War Globalism: A Visual History of Post-Migration and Minority Alliances after 1945
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Shelley van der Veek
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rachel PlakFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chris VerhoevenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sanne KellijFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Students speaking about this academic year: ‘It’s okay if one day doesn’t go so well.’
Nearly all students have faced many challenges this academic year. Students Nasreen Javanjoo (Religious Studies) and Marcos Cordova (Literary Studies) talk about their experiences of studying in the time of coronavirus.
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50 years of Dispuut Pleyte: “At get-togethers I walked across the Rapenburg with boxes full of glasses”
Party for Dispuut Pleyte (so called after the 19th-century Dutch Egyptologist). The study association for Ancient Near Eastern studies and Classics and Ancient Civilizations celebrates its 50th anniversary. Ahead of the festive symposium on 7 June, we look back and ahead with chairman Steef Haeldermans…
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Forging Global Citizens: Part 1
The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…
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Honours College FGGA kicked off a new year: ‘Students choose Honours because they like the courses so much’
We catched up with Annette Righolt, Honours College coordinator at FGGA, about a grant, a new course and the new year.
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal Concert
Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of the Rapenburg Canal Concert will feature a unique orchestra made up of our students, staff and alumni, performing on a floating stage.
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Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Yann RyanFaculty of Humanities
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Erika RiccobonFaculty of Humanities
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Rebecca Schaefer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid SamsetFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Cornelis van TilburgFaculty of Humanities
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Ayokunu AdedokunFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marijne de Ferrante-MolenaarICLON
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Daphne WoutsLeiden University Libraries
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Kirsty RolfeFaculty of Humanities
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Johan de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte FikkersFaculty of Humanities
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Róisín LambertFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah HinmanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs