450 news items found
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Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa 01 November 2022
Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’ 31 October 2022
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight part...
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script 27 October 2022
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need t...
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Flora Smit on the relationship between K-pop idols and their fans 27 October 2022
Fans of the Korean music movement K-pop go through hell for their idols. In return, artists care deeply about their fans: they even get to decide thei...
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Alumna Tessa Schiethart: 'If I could go back to my student days, I’d go right away' 26 October 2022
That Tessa Schiethart finished her bachelor's degree in International Studies with a thesis on Indonesian women's reasons for veiling was a coincidenc...
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ASSET-H skills profile for the employability of humanities graduates 25 October 2022
Did you know that during your studies you develop skills that are useful in working life too? On top of that, many of these transferable skills are li...
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High school students at the Open Day: 'I want to do my own thing' 24 October 2022
Last Saturday, the Turfmarkt in The Hague, where during the week thousands of commuters make their way to the many ministries in the city centre, was ...
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Executive Board column: Let’s be alert to unacceptable behaviour 21 October 2022
This is a difficult time. Above all, for all those directly involved in this horrible case – unacceptable behaviour by a professor and his removal fro...
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana 21 October 2022
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the proje...
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor 20 October 2022
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she ...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation 20 October 2022
Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduc...
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea 20 October 2022
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explai...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’ 19 October 2022
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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Introducing the new assessor: 'I immediately knew: this is what I want' 18 October 2022
With the new academic year, the Honours Academy welcomes a new assessor: Maarten Kolpa. What does an assessor do? And what can he do for honours stude...
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Leiden University professor removed for extremely unacceptable behaviour 18 October 2022
A professor from Leiden University has subjected various colleagues to intimidating and unacceptable behaviour for a longer period. These are the find...