On Monday 9 March 2026 the bachelor's and master's graduation ceremony of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology will take place in the Academy Building. Depending on the number of students, the ceremony may be held jointly for both master's and bachelor's students, or as separate events. We…

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Curious what it’s like to study Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University? During our shadowing days, you’ll join a student to attend a real lecture and get a feel for the atmosphere at the institute.

Adriana Churampi Ramirez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Alette Vonk holds an MA in Development Sociology and Practitioner certificates in the fields of Intercultural Management, Organizational Development, Organizational Culture and NLP. She has more than 25 years experience in both organizational and community development in international settings: she…

Carmen Van den Bergh is assistant professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department, track leader for Italian in the MA Literary Studies and quartermaster for the new BA programme Modern Languages.…

Dr Aktürk Hauser is Assistant Professor at the Department of Heritage and Society.

Prof.dr. L. de Ligt dr. K. Beerden

On Monday 5 October 2026 the master's graduation ceremony of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology will take place in the Academy Building.

Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…

Nadine Akkerman, FRHistS, MAE is a Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Johannes Müller is a university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

At a turbulent time in which world leaders are struggling to take stand against Trumpism, an artist from the small island of Puerto Rico sent a powerful message at none less than the unofficial national day of the United States. With over 128 million views, Bad Bunny’s performance broke NFL social media…

Mitchell van Vuren is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society. He studies the globalisation of Chinese science fiction/speculative fiction in the digital age, especially focussing on the platformisation of SVOD services.

Ilios Willemars is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analysis and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Ilios works on placeholders, replacement, contagion, insurance, immunity, infrastructure, digitalization, the work of Franz Kafka, and animals that commit suicide.

Bernhard Rieger is a Professor of European History at the institute for History.

Lydia Lois van de Fliert is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Carlos Roos is a lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), where he teaches for the Minor Music Studies and the PRE-University Programme.

The History programme has been working for several years to make the curriculum more diverse and inclusive. With a Comenius grant, university lecturer Kim Beerden wants to take the next step.

Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in…

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

Simay Çetin is a PhD candidate in the NWO-funded project “At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage through Diversity.” Her research project aims to analyze diversity and everyday home-making in allotment gardens through the lens of food heritage.

Elsa Charléty is lecturer of Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University and completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Brown University and the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Sander Hölsgens (PhD, UCL) is an anthropologist of urban culture and artistic research. His current research examines skateboarding as a contested practice of socio-political resistance. He also uses zine-making and filmmaking to explore questions on affect, pollution, and the body. At Leiden University,…

Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio is a PhD candidate within the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Elmer Veldkamp is an anthropologist of Korea and Japan, who focuses on the collective and individual processes by means of which people make sense of changes and developments in their everyday lives.

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.'

A big performance by André Rieu, food trucks in The Hague and more contact with the Royal Family: grand plans were announced in April to make the State Opening of Parliament (Prinsjesdag) a real ‘crowd puller’. For this year, however, we will just have to make do with slight differences in emphasis.…

Jessie Sun is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research interest focuses on how co-speech gestures interact with speech and non-manual articulations in multimodal communications, examined from pragmatics, cultural, gesture, and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Ben Arps is a Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Arash Mohammadavvali is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ellen Raven is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and recently retired.

Peter Meel is University Lecturer at the Institute for History.