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‘In those days you could learn as much as you wanted at university’
Having flirted with Egyptology and Italian, Dieuwertje Kuijpers found her true calling in the Master’s in European Union Studies. She is now a freelance journalist specialising in politics, security and defence. But she is also at home writing columns for ThePostOnline and hard-hitting articles for…
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Leiden University presents Scaliger medal to the Europaeum academic community
The Europaeum academic community was awarded the Scaliger medal on 23 September in recognition of its promotion of academic values. Andrew Graham, trustee to the Europaeum and founder and honorary advisor to the Scholars Programme, was presented with the medal by President of the Executive Board Annetje…
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‘We add a bit of escape room to our lessons’
Tommy Hopstaken and Jochem Haverhoek run an escape room in Kruithuisje, a medieval tower on what was once the perimeter canal in Leiden. They are also secondary-school teachers and make good use of their escape room experience in their lessons. How do their degrees in Dutch and Astronomy come in use…
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Lisette Atsma: how a Korean and Asian Studies alumna became an ICT specialist
She studied Korean and Asian Studies and, four years after graduating, is now working as a specialist for an ICT secondment company. This is the story of Lisette Atsma’s career (27).
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Inspiring: Henriëtte studied at a Chinese university for five months
When Henriëtte Hoffman was ten years old she was enthralled by The Last Emperor, a 1987 film about the twelfth and last emperor of the Manchu dynasty. It was an interest that eventually led to a five-month stay in Chengde in China for her Asian Studies research master’s programme. During her time in…
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programme
Last Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s programmes. Alongside the presentations, the information fairs gave them a good opportunity to ask any questions.
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and they were loving it. 'Yesterday evening we were completely covered in mud.'
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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Karin Aalderink: ‘It is very satisfying to help students on their way’
Her love for China made her study Chinese and go on an exchange trip in her third year of studies. As an Outbound Student Coordinator at the Humanities International Office, Karin Aalderink (45) now supervises students who go abroad.
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'Christiani et Ceteri. The Treatment of Christians in the Roman Empire'
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Taiwanese Literature in Dutch: the Voice of the Translators
Lecture
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LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism'
Conference
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
- Maartje Draak Seminars
- LIAS China Seminar
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Hybrid Symposium 'Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe’
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Liveable Planet congres: Lokaal beleid voor een leefbare planeet
Conference
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court
Panel Discussion
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Live Event: China’s Digital Future
Debate
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
- Public graduation presentation, Mark Magee
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LIC Lecture: Indigoid chromophores - a platform for light responsive nanosystems and molecular machines
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LUCIP workshop: Meeting in the Middle
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
- Public graduation presentation, Lal Avgen
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Workshop Phi and Agree
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Políticas de retorno diaspórico desde Latinoamérica a Galicia (España): la eterna contradicción entre la sangre y la lengua
Lecture
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian
PhD defence
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Strategic research into and development of best practice for, predictive modelling on behalf of Dutch Cultural Resource Management
Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
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2. Measuring Dialect Distances & Distance Matrices
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Workshop defense Marta Morgado
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
Lecture
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Flexible Relations: Experimentation and Innovation in Human-Environmental Links Across the Americas
Conference, RITMO Annual Meeting
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Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
Lecture
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What are questions? An English-centered, pragmatics & prosody-based perspective
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Leiden 'Humanities in a Digital World' Symposium
Symposium
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
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The Multilingual Holy Land
Conference, Public event