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Students from all around the world discover The Hague 22 August 2022
A day at the beach, games, a visit to an embassy and a pub crawl. The activities at HOPweek help new students get to know not just The Hague but each ...
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Exhibition unveils Central Asian part of Silk Road 22 August 2022
An exhibition at Oude UB takes visitors to the historical Silk Road. Old maps, clothes and jewellery reflect the rich heritage of the cities of Centra...
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In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022) 18 August 2022
Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing cam...
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Hard chews: why mastication played a crucial role in evolution 17 August 2022
We do it every day but barely give it a thought: chewing our food. But the ‘simple’ process of masticating food may have played a crucial role in the ...
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EUniWell Summer School on the impact of covid on health and well-being 16 August 2022
Bachelor's and master's students and PhD candidates came together from 10 to 13 July at Campus The Hague for the EUniWell Summer School ‘COVID-19: Imp...
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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID 15 August 2022
Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance thi...
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Honours Class reconciles students with the unpredictability of life 15 August 2022
The course Designing Your Life helps students navigate their career pathways. As it turns out, these pathways are full of twists and turns and - as wi...
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’ 25 July 2022
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she...
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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders appointed as Professor of Underwater Archaeology in Leiden 20 July 2022
Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders has been appointed professor of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management at Leiden Univ...
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Throwback to the Archaeological Field School of 2022: ‘Excavating is very rewarding’ 20 July 2022
Back in June, the annual Leiden Archaeology Field School took place in Oss. For a month, every week, a group of 25 first year students gets to learn t...
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences publishes advice on dignity and respect in academia 20 July 2022
If universities and research institutions want to tackle unacceptable behaviour in academia, they must shift their focus from dealing with complaints ...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships 20 July 2022
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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TED Talks for a better world 14 July 2022
At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everyt...
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Reporting from ESOF: ‘How can we use science to solve the next crisis?’ 14 July 2022
From global warming to the decolonisation of knowledge. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden over 500 speakers from 60 countries have come t...
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Meet postdoc Ana Zora Maspoli: ‘I came to Leiden to find a new way to look at the dilemma of Romanisation’ 12 July 2022
Looking for a different approach in the ongoing discussions on the ethereal matter of Romanisation, Ana Zora Maspoli joined Miguel John Versluys’ rese...