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Alternative demonstration in Leiden and The Hague against cuts has ended. Read the news article
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Come to the pre-strike meetings in Leiden and The Hague
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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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Sampling the course and the campus on the Bachelor’s Open Day
It’s Saturday and electric minibuses ride back and forth bringing prospective students to Leiden University’s various faculties. They want to see for themselves whether that interesting-looking programme will suit them.
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of this.
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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Join us at 3 October University and the Weekend of Science
Are you curious about how the human skeleton works? Discover this and more on 3 October in Leiden and on 4 October in The Hague.
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about the fate of family and friends, they also face major financial problems. This also applies to Russian students who can no longer access their bank accounts.…
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Luuk de LigtFaculty 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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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Nina EggensFaculty of Law
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Klaas VrielingFaculty of Science
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Hao WangFaculty of Science
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Bernard SteunenbergFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Ritanjan DasFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Han de WindeFaculty of Science
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Boya LiSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Bastiaan de JongFaculty of Law
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Somayeh DjafariFaculty of Law
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Jonathan PriceFaculty of Law
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Marlieke ErnstFaculty of Humanities
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Helena VrabecFaculty of Law
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Csilla ArieseFaculty of Humanities
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Daniel ValeFaculty of Law
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Lieke Feenstra
Faculty of Law
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Inga van Doornmalen
Faculty of Law
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Danny MekicFaculty of Law
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Hanneke LankveldFaculty of Law
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Christine TremblayFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Camille LefebvreFaculty of Law
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Eva SchmidtFaculty of Law
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Itai SiegelFaculty of Law
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Vera Wheni SetijawatiFaculty of Law
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Esteban SzmulewiczFaculty of Law