450 news items found
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Rector Magnificus presented with long list of missing Iranians 14 December 2022
Hester Bijl, the Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, was handed a ‘shockingly long list’ of names of missing Iranians in her office at the Adminis...
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Leiden University takes another step in becoming smoke-free with 'Peukenzee' initiative 12 December 2022
In recent months, the university has been running the 'Smoke-free university' campaign because of the large number of cigarette waste on and around th...
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum 12 December 2022
From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them m...
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries 29 November 2022
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ...
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Executive Board column: Our institutes abroad are part of our international DNA 21 November 2022
Ever since its foundation, Leiden University has turned its gaze outwards to other cultures, languages and forms of academic practice. It is only natu...
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Iranian regime faces dilemma: ‘You can’t just block social media’ 21 November 2022
Protests have been raging in Iran for two months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. The role of social media in the protests against the Iran...
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Art project has students and lecturers reflecting on pressure to succeed 17 November 2022
What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’? This is the focus of the Perspectify exhibition, which was opened on 16 November by President of the Ex...
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Painting removed from wall in spontaneous action: ‘We are going to discuss this and reach a decision’ 15 November 2022
During a meeting at the University on 10 November, staff spontaneously removed a painting by artist Rein Dool from the wall in one of the meeting room...
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Exhibition marks 100 years of Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands 14 November 2022
The Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands, ‘Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Belanda’, has teamed up with the Indonesian embassy in The Hague...
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands 10 November 2022
How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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New hub for entrepreneurial students from Campus The Hague 10 November 2022
This Thursday saw the launch of PLNT The Hague, an entrepreneurial hub where Campus The Hague students can learn all about entrepreneurship. They will...
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Archaeologist Aris Politopoulos launches Histories We Play as part of new Leiden Teacher’s Academy position 08 November 2022
Anyone who knows Aris Politopoulos will be aware of his passion for teaching. Almost winning the Leiden University Teaching Award in 2020, he is known...
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New ‘university centre’ to be created in former Hudson’s Bay building in downtown The Hague 07 November 2022
Leiden University, together with the Open University and Universities of the Netherlands, will take up residence in the Spui building at Grote Marktst...
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National platform launched for academics facing abuse 07 November 2022
Academics regularly face threats, intimidation and abuse. The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Ne...
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Master Class | Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History 03 November 2022
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social ...