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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’ 25 September 2023
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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Stolen Focus: Our Brains Online - The Reading List 22 September 2023
There is a reasonable chance that you came to this reading list through a social medium. Now it's our job to keep your attention. We are going to do o...
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Four questions about why we’re holding a debate on our ties to the fossil fuel industry 19 September 2023
On Wednesday 27 September we will be holding a debate for students and staff on our links with the fossil fuel industry in relation to the topic of su...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty 19 September 2023
Our ever-increasing reliance on software and technologies, out of convenience, necessity or otherwise, binds us to supranational and commercial compan...
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Astonishing explorations at the Night of Discoveries 19 September 2023
It was the Night of Discoveries on Saturday 16 September: a summer encounter between art and science. Leiden researchers from various disciplines insp...
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Did Dutch investments contribute to Indonesia’s economic development? 19 September 2023
Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. But the complicated...
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria 18 September 2023
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Resea...
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New YAL board: ‘Make sure young academics’ voices are heard’ 18 September 2023
Young Academy Leiden (YAL) will change its board this month and welcome seven brand-new members. We spoke to outgoing chair Sarah Giest and incoming c...
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Focus on well-being at PhD event 18 September 2023
'Make sure you separate yourself from your work.' And, 'Your dissertation doesn't have to be a magnum opus.' It was raining tips for PhD students at t...
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PhD survey results announced 18 September 2023
The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities conducted a survey of its PhD candidates and their supervisors in spring 2023. What is going well? An...
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1K Z1E J3 benches at Faculty of Humanities 18 September 2023
As part of Leiden University’s aim to be a safe and healthy environment for all staff and students, several activities and lectures were organised in ...
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Construction of the Spui university building in The Hague has officially begun 15 September 2023
On 14 September the construction of the Spui university building officially began. This special moment was marked with a meeting in the former Hudson’...
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Research Traineeship Programme completed: 'Here you are encouraged to try things' 15 September 2023
Discovering while still studying whether work in science might be for you. That is what students get during the faculty Research Traineeship Programme...
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’ 14 September 2023
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municip...
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New residents in the South Cluster from Spring 2024 13 September 2023
There has been good progress with the new South Cluster construction through the summer months. All the door and window frames are now in place, the b...