Archaeologist at Binnenhof: ‘Even the staff ate heron’

An Iron Age skull, a unicorn for cleaning your ear and thousands of beer jugs. Alumnus and archaeologist Chris Muysson has made remarkable discoveries at the Binnenhof government complex in The Hague. ‘Each puzzle piece tells us more about its history.’

Cleveringa Lecture

This year political scientist Hélène Landemore was appointed to the Cleveringa Chair. In her lecture, she will reflect on a current theme in the field of war, law, freedom and democracy, as did the Cleveringa professors who preceded her. You can follow the inaugural lecture via a live stream.

Experiment: Leiden University student writes thesis with just AI tools

As an experiment, student Alicia Cai relied solely on AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude for supervision while writing her thesis. It was only after she had finished writing it that Professor Bas Haring, who devised the experiment, assessed her thesis. What lessons were learned?

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