450 news items found
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room 26 May 2023A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Nearly all buildings at LBSP open and operating again from Wednesday 24 May 24 May 2023Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard ...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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Annick van Rinsum about her play: World Politics Three Times 22 May 2023MA International Relations: Culture and Politics student Annick van Rinsum created a play as a method to research her master’s thesis. “Through writin...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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New Humanities Living Room focuses on 'feeling at home' 18 May 2023Playing a game, picking a cutting for your room or just having a cup of coffee: it is all possible in the new Humanities Living Room in the Matthias d...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide? 16 May 2023We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’ 11 May 2023What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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Cabinet proposal for binding study advice: not a wise plan 09 May 2023On 9 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), announced his plans for amending the Binding Study Advice (BSA). If the Minister...
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Summer full of summer schools at Humanities 09 May 2023This summer, the Faculty of Humanities is once again offering a wide range of summer schools for staff and students. From acting to Indian linguistics...
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained 08 May 2023In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections prom...
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‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics know very little about it’ 08 May 2023The annual conference of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme will take place in The Hague...