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End of year message from the Executive Board for staff and students
With the holidays just around the corner in this dark month of December, when we light candles as a symbol of warmth and hope, we would like to take a moment to reflect on this past year. We have accomplished a great deal together but the year has been difficult at times.
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Student exhibition: unearthing the story of the VOC ship Amsterdam
A new student-curated exhibition in the F1-corridor of the Van Steenis building brings history to life through remarkable finds from the Amsterdam, a merchant vessel of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that met an untimely end in 1749. 'The story of the Amsterdam is truly unique, especially considering…
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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Archaeology Inter-Section journal offers students the chance to publish: ‘I learned a lot during the process’
The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the unique chance to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. The new volume focuses on the materials that shape our world.
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Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund
For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…
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Interpreters’ Note-Taking: an international writing system?
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts
Two researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology have received a grant from the Museums, Collections and Society (MSC) interdisciplinary programme. This grant is for collection-based research. Jason Laffoon is using his grant for research into the origins of Central American turquoise, while Dr Marike…
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…
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TNO, HUM and the ISSC are jointly developing an ethical chatbot: ‘It is important that communication is tailored to the user’
The ISSC's ICT helpdesk receives dozens of questions from staff and students every day. A collaboration between TNO, LUCL and the ISSC aims to determine whether a specially designed chatbot could provide support in this area.
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Byvanck Professor Caroline Vout wins London Hellenic Prize for 2022 book
This year's London Hellenic Prize is awarded to Caroline Vout for her excellent study of representations of the human body in sculpture, Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body.
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Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Sylvestre BonnetFaculty of Science
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Edwin BakkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Constant HijzenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Daan WeggemansFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Remko OffringaFaculty of Science
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Children's rights under pressure in a changing world: Need for a new research agenda?
Conference
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Banned almost–prime minister of Thailand: ‘Politics must be moral and realistic’
Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forward Party and banned him from politics. He now reflects publicly on the policy values that brought the party to prominence.
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Science for Policy in a Changing World Insights from Leiden University’s Europe Hub
Conference
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Shekhar KolipakaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Miriam WaltzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Vincent WalstraFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Costanza FranceschiniFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Tanja AhlinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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Kamila Krakowska RodriguesFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Aslihan ÖztürkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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John-Harmen ValkFaculty of Humanities
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Sjef BarbiersFaculty of Humanities