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vice-dean Mirjam de Baar: ‘Straight away I found Leiden's Faculty of Humanities a fantastic environment to work in'
After nine years, Mirjam de Baar is leaving as vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities. ‘It will take some getting used to letting go of this vice-deanship because the education portfolio is very close to my heart and I’ve worked hard for it in recent years in close cooperation with many colleagues.’
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Aleida Nijland on Track: Preliminary Design Approved
With the approval of the preliminary design (PD), an important milestone has been reached in the design process for the Aleida Nijland building. This means that the key functional and spatial decisions have now been finalised. The future users of the building – LUCL, part of LUCAS, lab users, LAK, ATC,…
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of plant food processing
A new study carried out by Leiden archaeologists Hadar Ahituv and Amanda Henry, together with international colleagues, reports the identification and analysis of 650 starch grains preserved on basalt percussive tools (anvils and hammerstones) found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These…
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2025
Conference
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Karel KuipersFaculty of Archaeology
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Architect Aleida Nijland: ‘The building will become greener in many ways’
Now that the Herta Mohr building is fully operational, construction work is moving to the other side of the University Library. Over the coming years, the former Matthias de Vrieshof will be transformed into the Aleida Nijland building. Architect Bart van Kampen tells us more about the plans.
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Interior design Aleida Nijland: light, recognisable and future-proof
During the meeting on 26 February with the future users of Aleida Nijland, design agency Studio Linse presented the interior design. The design is based on earlier input from users, and focuses on functionality, comfort and a future-proof working environment. The interior has been designed to be a pleasant,…
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. A paper recently published…
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Mind tools, language and the origins of AI
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Ian SimpsonFaculty of Archaeology
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Ramira van der MeulenFaculty of Science
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Eduardo Herrera MalatestaFaculty of Archaeology
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A vision for the future of human rights and multilateralism
Lecture
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Footballer and journalist Nikki IJzerman: 'I want to dive into the background of the news'
Give Nikki IJzerman a football and she’s happy. The midfielder was named Player of the Year by ADO Den Haag last season, as well as obtaining her master’s degree in Journalism and New Media.
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Digital Humanities Pilot Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure Symposium 2026
Symposium
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Susana ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’
As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey, that’s interesting!’
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Shekhar KolipakaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ali ShobeiriFaculty of Humanities
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Jelena BelicFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël PeyrotFaculty of Humanities
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Cora Tabea LederFaculty of Archaeology
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Francesco WalkerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Christopher DugardFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mensenrechten overal anders geïnterpreteerd. Hoe kan dat?
Hoe kan het dat universele mensenrechten wereldwijd niet hetzelfde in de praktijk worden gebracht?
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Annemie Halsema appointed professor by special appointment: ‘I want to contribute to thinking about diversity
The Institute for Philosophy further expands its knowledge: As of 1 September, Annemie Halsema holds the chair of Wijsgerige antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme (Philosophical anthropology and the principles of humanism, ed.). In the coming five years, she will study current societal issues…
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Archaeologist Wei Chu explores Carpathian caves with Gerda Henkel grant
Recently, archaeologist Dr Wei Chu received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for an excavation in the Carpathian Mountains. Originally planning for an excavation in Ukraine, his plans were disrupted by the war. ‘We had to change plans really quickly.’
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats joins Leiden Teachers Academy: ‘I am always trying to look for ways to make teaching stick better'
The Leiden Teachers Academy (LTA) was founded to help collaboration between excellent teachers. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats has been one of the latest additions to the Academy, nominated by the Faculty Board for the position as a Teaching Fellow. ‘In the LTA we talk about new innovations in…
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine
At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist Wei Chu would have visited the site in summer 2022, were it not for the war. Now he has received funding from SNMAP with the aim to better establish the…
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Rebecca Schaefer: 'Music and science bring people together'
Rebecca Schaefer received the new science communication grant for the SNAAR Festival in December 2020. With the festival, Schaefer wants to make music and science accessible to a wide audience. How exactly? That's what she tells in this issue of Humans of Psychology.
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Annelinde Vandenbroucke: 'Science for and by youth'.
Annelinde Vandenbroucke received the new science communication grant for NeurolabNL Young in December 2020. This grant will help her in her mission: to make science attractive for and by youth. Vandenbroucke tells Humans of Psychology why youth is important to science and vice versa,
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Archaeologist Andy Sorensen in National Geographic Magazine about ancient fire use
When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that question. In the February edition of the Dutch language version of National Geographic Magazine his research features in the section The Discovery.
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Kees WaaldijkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid