926 search results for “history of centre and eastern european” in the Student website
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Update Executive Board: Dark clouds over the humanities
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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‘How can you lead an organisation when you do not yet know yourself?’
How to implement good leadership? This is the central question posed during the inspiration seminars of the LLP, in which renowned guest speakers share their insights. A seminar at the beginning of May imparts this message: “Keep listening to one another.”
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Martina Revello LamiFaculty of Archaeology
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Fieldwork in Leiden
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, students have been conducting all sorts of research, in Leiden. They presented their initial findings and recommendations at a Learning with the City meeting…
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’
The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the word leadership with an adjective: ‘Public’. But the goal here is to view leadership in a different light in his new role as Professor of Public Lead…
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal Council. How are brand-new student councillors Mitchell Wiegand Bruss and Elianne Wijnands doing? ‘We’ve already asked questions about the quality of…
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Spui Campus counts down to grand opening
Spui Campus, Leiden University’s fourth location in The Hague, will soon open its doors. The former V&D department store’s transformation into a university campus is becoming more visible by the week. Removal vans will soon be driving back and forth to move all the furniture there in time. The first…
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First in your family to go to university? Five tips for settling into student life
Are you the first in your family to go to university? Or is the Dutch education system unfamiliar because you (or your parents) didn’t grow up in the Netherlands? Going to Leiden University is a great achievement, but it might feel overwhelming too. These tips will help you settle into student life.
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Honours students mount an exhibition on ‘the other’
Master’s students in the Honours Class ‘Leiden, City of Refugees?’ were asked to contemplate the concept of ‘the other’ from both an academic and an artistic perspective. The result was the exhibition ‘The Invitation’ which was presented at Stadsbauhaus on 4 June.
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy?
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandra PrégentFaculty of Humanities
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Yunnan YeFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas VrielingFaculty of Science
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Peter KlinkhamerFaculty of Science
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Jacky NieuwboerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Frans de HaasFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno VerbeekFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Lindsay BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Cristina GrasseniFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kees WaaldijkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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James McAllisterFaculty of Humanities
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Keuzegids: six top bachelor's programmes at Leiden University
Leiden University has six top bachelor's programmes according to Keuzigids universiteiten 2025, a consumer guide to university programmes. This puts Leiden in fourth place of the broad-based universities.
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Love, war and... football: 2024 in Leiden stories
A new government, conflicts around the world and obviously a lot of science: these are the five stories about Leiden University that you enjoyed reading in 2024.
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Preparing for the Worst: Japan and a Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’
Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa Lecture as planned on 26 November. She reflected on the protest and the importance of open debate, within the university and within a democracy.
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculty of Archaeology
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities