1,362 search results for “university history” in the Student website
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer
Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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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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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Paul KloegUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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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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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty 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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Patrick GouwUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Turaj AtabakiFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der SteenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Wim BootFaculty of Humanities
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Ben SchoenmakerFaculty of Humanities
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities