1,223 search results for “university history” in the Student website
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Open call for artistic projects about freedom or the Second World War
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Still the cat’s whiskers: De Kattekop nursery at 40
If there’s one place at the University where it doesn’t matter where you come from, it’s De Kattekop. This, the University nursery, celebrates its 40th birthday in September. Its history reflects developments at the University. Parents are full of praise for it.
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Pieter SlamanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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Fenneke Sysling - Institute for HistoryFaculty of Humanities
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history, will give an online lecture about forgotten stories from the Second World War. Via Open Jewish Homes, moving stories can be heard online of Jewish alumni.…
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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History
The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Classics and Ancient History.
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
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Looking back on an extraordinary Remembrance Day
This year’s Remembrance Day on 4 May was more intimate than ever. Although it was not possible to come together as usual, an online lecture by Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history, and a special ceremony at the Academy Building made it a moving remembrance after all. See the photos…
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne WoutsUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sophia HendrikxFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
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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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Susana Münch MirandaFaculty of Humanities
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Anais van ErtveldeFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Joost WeltenFaculty of Humanities
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history
They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed professor, researches the history of urban culture in Leiden. Women take pride of place in her research. Inaugural lecture on 28 February.
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Patrick GouwUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood
New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in Oude UB shows the radical changes that are in store for the Leiden Bio Science Park over the coming years.
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der SteenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Anna DerksenFaculty of Humanities