In the media
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Nadine Akkerman discusses Spycraft on BBC and History Extra Podcasts 28 August 2024
Nadine Akkerman recently appeared as a guest on a BBC podcast and the History Extra podcast to discuss her book Spycraft. In these interviews, she del...
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications 23 August 2024
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in Th...
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘ 07 June 2024
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and w...
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Liselore Tissen in Leiden Global on ‘bridging the gap between technology and the humanities’ 23 November 2023
External PhD Candidate Liselore Tissen was interviewed by Leiden Global about her work, in which she uses 3D printing. Recently she made a copy of a d...
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Adriaan van der Weel in multiple media on the Ljubljana Manifesto 19 October 2023
Professor Emeritus by special appointment Adriaan van der Weel has co-authored a manifesto on the importance of higher-reading.
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Evelien Campfens at LeidenGlobal on cultural heritage protection 12 April 2023
How can we best protect cultural heritage in times of war? In an interview with LeidenGlobal, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens talks ...
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums 15 February 2023
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted ...
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Pepita Hesselberth in Hermitix podcast about her book 06 February 2023
University lecturers Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois (UvA) were interviewed in a Hermetix podcast about their co-edited book Politics of Withdr...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022
Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list 06 October 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for t...
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Aart Hendriks not ruling out compulsory vaccination 01 December 2021
Now the number of people with COVID-19 is increasing and we are faced with stricter measures once again, the question arises whether compulsory vaccin...
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Leiden research into corona waste ends up in New York Times 18 November 2021
Face masks and plastic gloves are supposed to protect us from corona, but they are becoming an increasing problem for the environment. In a special se...
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters 16 February 2021
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction...