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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguistics enthusiasts from all over the world can once again learn about a variety of rare languages and linguistics topics. Director Sasha Lubotsky tells…
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Gabrielle van den Berg: "We can raise our profile"
Gabrielle van den Berg became the Academic Director of LIAS on 1 September 2025: “I hope I’ll be able to make a real difference.”
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Unveiling the hidden world of wood
For four years, Vicky Beckers examined thin slices of wood under a microscope, mapping the anatomy of two plant families. Her research helps identify different wood species, benefiting both the timber trade and archaeology.
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Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe
Leiden's cultural anthropologist Anouk de Koning is receiving a Vici research grant for her project ‘Prototyping Welfare in Europe: Experiments in State and Society’ to study welfare experiments in four countries and to examine what they tell us about the futures of European welfare states.
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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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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press
The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s specialization Visual Ethnography has supported many talented individuals to produce inspiring films. About 70 master’s thesis films of the past 8 years…
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A wheelchair in the Old Observatory
Yesterday marked the start of the National Accessibility Week. How accessible is Leiden University for people with a disability? We asked Lucia Langerak, disabled herself and working at the Honours Academy, about her experiences: ‘Significant improvements are being made.’
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Fieldwork in the Favela's: Political scientist Juan Masullo Receives Award
Juan Masullo J., Assistant Professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been named a 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar. His research with Nicholas Barnes on public security policy preferences in Rio de Janeiro's favelas has been recognized for its innovative approach…
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Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund
For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…
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Planet found too big for its parent star
The discovery of a planet far too large for its sun defies models about the formation of solar systems and planets. In a paper in Science, researchers, including Yamila Miguel of Leiden Observatory, report the discovery of a planet more than 13 times heavier than Earth orbiting the ultracool dwarf star…
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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The parallels between quarrelling animals and humans
The journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences published its theme issue ‘Conflict across taxa’ on 4 April, which was edited by Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology Carsten de Dreu. Together with researchers from other disciplines he provides more insight…
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'Students can come to me if they feel they need help’
Guiding people and helping them flourish. That's what Alexandra Blank's work is about. She has two jobs at W&N and she likes them both. ‘It is precisely because I combine these two jobs that I can do both well'.
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‘Comprehensive handbook victims’ – Interview with Janne van Doorn
What do scholars, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service, the police, the National Rapporteur Human Trafficking, Victim Support Netherlands, and the Violent Offences Compensation Fund have in common? They all work with victims, each from their own expertise. High time to combine that knowledge,…
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Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses
A CT scanner to treat eye cancer, energy-efficient software for the future and a test to identify male chick eggs. Three projects by researchers from Leiden University are to receive funding from research funder NWO’s Open Technology programme, to which the business sector also contributes.
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Binary star reveals: planet formation doesn’t always happen in sync
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star at which planet formation has finished, while the same-aged companion star still has a planet-forming disk. The researchers…
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Over a million euros for two studies on solutions to antimicrobial resistance
Two consortia led by Leiden researchers have been awarded over one million euros by the Dutch Research Council and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to find solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
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ERC grant for Sebastian Pomplun to precisely influence gene expression
In order to stop a whole range of diseases or disorders at their source, you would have to be able to switch certain genes on or off. Sebastian Pomplun wants to develop substances that can do this very precisely. For example, he wants to disrupt cancer processes and make cells produce an important missing…
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Researchers get free rein with new Social Sciences and Humanities Labs
There was a lot of interest. In front of nearly a hundred researchers, supporting colleagues and Martijn Ridderbos, the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, Lotte van Dillen, Research Director of Psychology and Saskia Goedhard, Director of Humanities Operations jointly opened the new lab with a classic…
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A quick call with Ella Picavet on affordable period products
Many will add them to their shopping list without a second thought, but what if you don't have enough money to buy period products each month? The university has recently started providing packs of affordable sanitary pads and tampons in the SchoolSupply vending machines. ‘It's just like providing toilet…
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Back to Faculty with Nikie Veld
Nikie Veld is an education coordinator at Biology. Her job now mainly revolves around getting students back to the Faculty. ‘In the corona era, we were constantly rearranging the timetables.’
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Msc Thesis presentation Arina Kontos on Sunday 13 July @ 4PM CET via Zoom
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Martin Bijl on Tuesday 19 August @ 10 am in room BW0.06
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Richard Wagner on Wednesday 6 March @ 14h30 in room Oort 173 (Gorterzaal)
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Maaike Westerdijk on Friday 10 October@ 15:15 pm in room Oort 173 (Gorterzaal)
Education
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MSc Research presentation Timon van Dieren on Wednesday 9 August @14h30 in Oort 276 (Casimir Room)
Education
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Potential noise disturbance Van Steenis on September 4
Facility
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Msc Thesis presentation Konstantinos Andreadis on Friday 21 June @ 10 am in Huygens 207
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Roger Solé Borràs on Monday 7 July @ 10 am in room HL207
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Georgia Kefala on Thursday 2 February @ 9 am in DM.0.17-PC
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Martin Bijl on Monday 31March @ 12h00 in EM1.19
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Eli van der Bent on Wednesday 6 March @ 15h15 in room Oort 173 (Gorterzaal)
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Lionel Kielhöfer on Thursday 12 October @ 2 pm at Snellius 401
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Timo Marchand on Wednesday 5 February @ 10 am in room Oort 276 (Casimir zaal)
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Paco Bontenbal on Friday 23 February @ 11h00 in HL1104
Education
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Adriaan van der Weel in multiple media on the Ljubljana Manifesto
Professor Emeritus by special appointment Adriaan van der Weel has co-authored a manifesto on the importance of higher-reading.
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Msc Thesis presentation Aviv Levy on Tuesday 24 September @ 4 pm via Zoom
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation João van der Ven on Tuesday 9 July @ 4 pm via Zoom
Education
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MSc Research Project presentation Pim Veefkind on Wednesday 3 May @ 16h.00 in the Gorterzaal
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Alice Doppenberg on Tuesday 17 June @ 1:30 am KPN BV Amsterdam (and on Teams)
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Geert Timmerman on Wednesday 27 March @ 13h15 pm, Room GM4.13
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Bob de Wit on Thursday 7 March @ 15h30 in Oort 173
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Benjamin Sluijter on Tuesay 24 September @ 8-9 pm (online)
Education
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Msc Thesis presentation Oscar Ociepka on Monday 7 July @ 10 AM in BE.0.10
Education
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MSc Thesis presentation Timon van Dieren on Wednesday 15 February @ 9:30 am via Zoom
Education
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Police called to university library and Herta Mohr over suspicious situation
Library, Security
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MSc Research presentation Panagiotis Xanthopoulos on Tuesday 25 July @10h00 in Oort 173 (Gorterzaal)
Education
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Results of FGGA faculty council elections 2023
Organisation