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Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. News about research 🔍, teaching 📚 and events ✨.
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Faculty Teaching Award for Mike Schmidli

Assistant professor Mike Schmidli has won the 2025 Faculty Teaching Award. The Committee praised his commitment to not only informing students well, but also helping them develop into well-rounded individuals.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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🎉Célébrons le français: Symposium: 130 Years of French Language and Culture in Leiden

📍23 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00, Waalse kerk, Leiden. This event is in Dutch and French. Register via: www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/...
Students from Leiden University
May 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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80 years after the end of the Second World War, the History and International Studies section and the Cold War Research Network are organising a roundtable discussion with Matthew Broad, Maxine David, Laurien Crump, Daniel Schade, Vineet Thakur and Jue Wang. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Flags at United Nations
May 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Actualiteitencollege 6 march: Democracy under pressure? Lessons from South Korea

Join the lecture by professor @remcobreuker.bsky.social Breuker, organised by @leidenglobal.bsky.social together with Studium Generale and @geopolitieknu.bsky.social

Info: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
March 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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💡Chairperson Susan van Grol: We need to be critical but realistic

After 14 years of chairing the Faculty Council, Professor Jan Sleutels is handing over the baton. Student Susan van Grol takes over the chairmanship. Time for an introduction to Susan: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Photo of Susan in the garden of Hortus Botanicus
January 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Professor Beatrice de Graaf held the 53rd Huizinga Lecture on Thursday 12 December. In front of a sold-out Stadsgehoorzaal, she spoke about how history can be used in times of crisis to give meaning to the situation.

Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...
Photo of Beatrice the Graaf speaking on stage of the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden.
December 16, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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The new Humanities Hub in the Huizinga Building of #UniversityLeiden is officially opened. It comprises labs with digital facilities for students and researchers, who are also at hand to help use these digital research tools. The labs include an AI Lab, a film studio and a podcast studio.
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December 9, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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🌍 The future of Europe is not about Europe

More autocracies, less gender equality and growing anti-liberal sentiment. These are just some of the developments Professor Sarah Wolff will highlight in her inaugural lecture on the future of Europe.

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November 29, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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💡Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?

University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate this. Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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📢 New protest on 25 November - Make your voice heard against the cuts to higher education 📢

Staff and students from Leiden University will protest on 25 November at 1:00 PM at the Malieveld in The Hague against the billions in cuts to higher education. Will you join us?
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November 19, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. Andries Hiskes, PHD researcher at the #LeidenUniversity Centre for Arts in Society, researched the disabled body and the reactions it can bring.
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April 18, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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Medieval and early modern literature viewed through the lens of Artificial Intelligence? Bram Caers, University lecturer of Dutch Literature at Leiden University, will tell you more about it during the Letter en Geest lecture (in Dutch) on 18 April.
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April 15, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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PhD candidate Sebastiaan van der Lubben of #leidenUniversity has written live blogs about Leiden politics. But how do you go about covering an event while it unfolds? Much proved to be unknown about this relatively new journalistic genre. Read more about it! bit.ly/3VP19xQ
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April 8, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ says Nivja De Jong, Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at University Leiden.
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April 4, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ says Nivja De Jong, Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at University Leiden.
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April 4, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The series (2 April - 21 May) is held as a prelude to the new Middle Eastern Library, which will be opened coming academic year. bit.ly/3VIQBAe
Photo of book Greek physician Pedanius Dioskurides
March 28, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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@ronaldgiphart.bsky.social will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence this autumn. As writer in residence, Giphart will explore some of his own fascinations together with Leiden students. Read more: bit.ly/3TDaPZE
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March 27, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: 'A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible' says Professor of Early Modern Dutch History of the Faculty of Humanties and project leader Judith Pollmann. bit.ly/4aiRJyB
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March 20, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima Al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.

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March 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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How do we address historical power dynamics in new slavery and emancipation histories? Which critical methods apply to studying preserved archives? A new book series aims to address these questions. Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms are happy to receive new manuscripts. bit.ly/3v9f5YP
Image of a plantation, published in the children’s book. Made by artist Hedy Tjin.
March 15, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Biotechnological developments are moving fast. From genetically modified plant varieties we are now moving to cultured meat. These developments require moral interpretation - and they get it in the form of art. Lotte Pet wrote a dissertation about it. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...
March 13, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Alisa van de Haar is one of three humanities scholars to win a KNAW Early Career Award this year. The university lecturer of Ancient French Literature is receiving the award for her innovative research on multilingualism and migration. bit.ly/43b8TvX
March 12, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-century diplomatic circles of the Ottoman Empire. ‘We already know that one woman led the entire embassy.'

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March 8, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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In recent decades, women in Japan and South Korea have been catching up in terms of educational achievements and economic activity. Yet the number of women in leadership positions is still lagging behind. PhD candidate at LIAS Yorum Beekman investigated why this is. Read more: bit.ly/3IvTVqB
March 6, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home. bit.ly/clay-tablets
March 4, 2024 at 11:29 AM