908 search results for “board history” in the Student website
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Marit PostmaFaculty of Humanities
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Rosalinde SpittersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’
An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freedom: these all featured in Leiden University’s 450th Dies Natalis celebration and the official start of its jubilee year.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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José María Castro IbarraFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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Vera ScepanovicFaculty of Humanities
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Gus KrausFaculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Orson McMahonFaculty of Humanities
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Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
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Jiaxuan HuangFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-WillnerFaculty of Humanities
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Michel WyssFaculty of Humanities
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Robertus BenningFaculty of Humanities
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Ghulam Ali MurtazaFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris KastritisFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony CoxeterFaculty of Humanities
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Jamie KorporaalFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lotte KremersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Niels HeukelomFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Iris KoleAdministration and Central Services
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Mette LéonsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Noortje van SwietenFaculty of Humanities
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Nicole van OsFaculty of Humanities
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Reflecting on our university’s colonial past: ‘We’re still too Eurocentric’
How do colonialism and historical slavery continue to impact the university today? And what should happen next? Students and staff discussed these questions on 11 March.
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities