450 news items found
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Keuzegids consumer guide: six top programmes at Leiden University 30 November 2023Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 Novembe...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons 28 November 2023From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western rememb...
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‘Honours helps you face your future with more confidence’ 27 November 2023After three years of courses, exercises, debating and reflecting, Honours College students received their certificate during a festive ceremony. Even ...
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Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more 27 November 2023When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that ...
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Lipsius building occupied by End Fossil 23 November 2023Members of the End Fossil climate action group, including students from Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotte...
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Augustinus receives first Student Well-being Award 23 November 2023A growing number of student organisations are focusing attention on the mental, social and physical well-being of their members. This year, the first ...
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden 22 November 2023Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal...
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‘Let’s try not to lose sight of each other’ – Interview with Annetje Ottow 21 November 2023The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experie...
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How to build resilience in times of climate crisis 20 November 2023In the honours course Sustainability & Health, students examine the causes and effects of climate change – but also how they can relate to these thems...
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JEDI Fund: ‘We’re now showing clearly that the community is diverse’ 20 November 2023If you have a plan that could improve the education or the learning environment of the Faculty of Humanities in terms of diversity or inclusion, you c...
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ 20 November 2023A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
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Wives of professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement 17 November 2023Aletta Jacobs, Suze Groeneweg and Joke Smit are familiar names from the Dutch women’s rights movement. Less well-known are the feminists who operated ...
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Voice of the ocean 16 November 2023There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in t...
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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy 16 November 2023In her inaugural lecture Susanna Lindberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming. She does not simply aim to apply existing philosop...
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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University 16 November 2023In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are obviously going to celebrate this with our students, s...