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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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15 years Leiden University College
Leiden University College (LUC), an institute of Leiden University in The Hague – the international city of peace, justice, and security – offers the English-taught Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges since 2010. Inspired by the American university college model, LUC combines…
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Uhlenbeck conference scholarship
Master
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Nikki MulderFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ana Cardozo de SouzaFaculty of Humanities
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Daniela Vicherat MattarFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Erasmus+ grant for virtual exchanges: 'We want to deliver ecologically aware global citizens'
Professor Dario Fazzi has been organising virtual exchanges for students with various American universities for a number of years. Now he has been awarded 400.000 euros from the Erasmus+ programme Cooperation Partnerships to further develop the virtual component of his teaching.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Harris or Trump? Implications for Asia (and beyond)
Lecture, Asia Academy
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Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Heino van RijnberkFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Rong YuanFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
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Vera ScepanovicFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcin RabizaFaculty of Humanities
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Xuan Dong
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kurpershoek
Faculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Ruben Eijkelenberg
Ruben Eijkelenberg is a PhD student at the Insitute for History.
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Peter Postma
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Judith Leferink
Faculty of Humanities
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Robertus Benning
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-Willner -
Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote