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• The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War News - 28 April 2025

  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?

• Construction of alternative Humanities Campus is feasible News - 10 May 2022

  Leiden University can build an alternative Humanities Campus on its own available land at the current location in the city. This is the conclusion of a feasibility study and is what the mayor and aldermen of Leiden write in a letter to the city council.

• Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship News - 22 January 2021

  Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.

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  Saskia Cohen-Willner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mark Loderichs PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kenan van de Mieroop Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe Guest postdoc researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  André Knulst Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mingran Cao PhD Candidate/ Self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Koen van der Lijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Caspar Dullemond PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• POSTPONED - Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India Event - 7 December 2023

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hannelore Braeken PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Saskia Rademaker PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrea Warnecke Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Femke Fakkeldij PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Felix Bosch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD News - 3 June 2025

  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.

• A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede News - 11 June 2025

  Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede fought for greater popular influence. Historian Dirk Alkemade reveals how this pioneer used radical means to shape Dutch democracy.

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  Willem Adelaar Professor emeritus of Native American Languages

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aone van Engelenhoven University Lecturer Southeast Asian Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Silvia D'Amato Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Zane Kripe Lecturer

  Faculty of Science

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  Peter Pels Professor emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology of Africa

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• ‘Poorer people often bear the brunt of sustainability initiatives’ News - 21 February 2022

  The effects of sustainability projects on poorer, marginalised people should be considered at a much earlier stage. This is the opinion of Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainable Development and Livelihood, who will give her inaugural lecture on 25 February.

• The eternal student: exhibition travels through 450 years of studying News - 23 April 2025

  Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.

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  Sarah Cramsey Professor by Special Appointment History of Central Europe, migration and diaspora's

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Isaac Scarborough Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising Event - 11 March 2025

  Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture

• Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century Event - 23 February 2023

  Lecture

• Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam News - 27 October 2021

  Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.

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  Alies Jansen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eelco van der Maat Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Crisis Forgotten: Sudan News - 6 June 2025

  Since April 2023 the current war in Sudan has brought larger death, destruction, and displacement than any other ongoing armed conflict on earth. And yet, international media coverage of the conflict remains limited.

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  Jelmer Rotteveel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Irene Urrutia Schroeder External PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Petr Koluch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rozemarijn Vlijm PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dettje Bakker PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eva Drommel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

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  Roosmarijn Hompe PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mily Crevels Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marija Seric External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Albert Logtenberg Assistant professor

  ICLON

• These lunch seminars prepare you for upcoming world events News - 6 September 2023

  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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  Rizal Shidiq University Lecturer, Economies in South and Southeast Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gerrit Dusseldorp Associate professor

  Faculty of Archaeology