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Sander Nieuwenhuis
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden University Student Platform (LUS)
The Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) is a student-led ‘think-tank’. It consists of eight members: one representative from each of the seven faculties plus one chair.
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These lunch seminars prepare you for upcoming world events
Climate and human rights will again become major issues on the world stage by the end of 2023. The new series of lunch seminars by the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seamlessly tie into these events. All Leiden researchers and students are…
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LUF - Lutfia Rabbani Scholarship Fund
Master
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To arrange upon your return
To arrange upon your return
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LUF - Lutfia Rabbani Scholarship Fund: Extra Gaza Scholarship
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option
‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world. In September, six modules will start on subjects such as statistics and digitally searching through texts.…
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Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking?
‘Critical thinking’ is an expression all academics have heard of: it’s the first learning objective in the Leiden Vision on Teaching and Learning. It’s both a historical topic with roots that reach back a long way and a topical problem too. The question on everyone’s lips is whether critical thinking…
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International students start a master’s thanks to a LExS
This academic year 49 promising international students will start their master’s degree here thanks to a Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS). The students, all from outside the EU, were welcomed in a special ceremony on 5 September. Who are they?
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Executive Board adopts committee’s recommendations on Israel-Palestine
The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and until further notice not to engage in any new exchange programmes with Israeli universities that have comparable links with the Israeli military (the…
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Peter van der PuttenFaculty of Science
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie-leen RyckaertFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gianelle Vacca: ‘POPcorner The Hague makes us much more accessible’
Campus The Hague gained a new facility. On Thursday 17 February, POPcorner was opened, helping students find their way during their studies and within the university buildings.
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Sustainability Day: Sustainability embedded in our education
In our teaching, Leiden University gives all students the opportunity to learn about sustainability themes and issues. Social issues, including sustainable development, are addressed in the teaching and research at all of our faculties. On this Day of Sustainability, we highlight a number of subject…
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Bringing Peace and Justice to Life
The Just Peace Festival's first edition is live! The Opening Event marked the beginning of two weeks filled with activities to reflect on what peace and justice mean in today's world.
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Santino Regilme in EUobserver: 'The EU needs to research its own oligarchic capture'
In a recent EUobserver opinion article, Salvador Santino Regilme, warns that Europe faces a crisis of legitimacy if it continues to ignore the structural influence of billionaires and oligarchic interests within its institutions.
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective
From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in various ways. In this video, they look back on a special year.
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Blowing the whistle on the government cuts
Hundreds of students and staff from Leiden University gave a ‘whistle concert’ on 11 December against the planned cuts to higher education. Similar protests were held in other student cities on the same day.
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 2023
The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our most-read stories were about the climate crisis and the elections: here’s the list.
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Trust me, I’m a university
Technology and privacy, trust and mistrust. A discussion about this broke out when the University installed scanners and students protested. On Wednesday 2 February experts from Leiden University will explore this topic at the eponymous symposium. We called Roy de Kleijn, as a computer scientist and…
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’
Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the Faculty of Humanities. He starts on 1 September and will combine his new position with his current teaching duties at the Institute for History.
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’
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Sara de WitFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
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Richard GhiasyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs WittyFaculty of Humanities
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Michael McCabe IIIFaculty of Archaeology
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Paul KloegLeiden University Libraries
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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David EhrhardtFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Koen Donker Van HeelFaculty of Humanities
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
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Rafal MatuszewskiFaculty of Humanities