Liselotta Jahnke, Jason Irwin, Rachel Cruickshank and Paula Kovač are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). This committee advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board of CADS about educational matters, such as determining the Course and Examination Regulations and evaluating…

How is our perception of sound informed by the way we participate in the world? That is the question PhD candidate Gabriel Paiuk has been pondering in recent years. 'The way we experience sound is informed by material, technical and collective conditions that influence our interaction with the envir…

Over the past few decades, China’s art market experienced an awe-inspiring transformation. During the Cultural Revolution, art collecting activities and art trade were outlawed. The first art auction did not take place in China until the early 1990s. Today China’s art auction market has become…

GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…

Maartje Janse is associate professor at the Institute for History.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

The Heinz Kaempfer Fund (HKF) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden University) are proud to present the second in a biennial series of seminars on Japanese art. With the New Perspectives series, we aim to demonstrate that the study of Japanese art is very much alive and part…

In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…

The Leiden Department of Art History organizes several (online) Museum Talks with researchers and curators, in collaboration with LUCAS, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

How can we work together to create a safe study and learning environment and offer students the support that they need? The Vision on Student Well-Being outlines the University’s plans to promote student well-being in the coming years.

Gen is interested in exploring questions about what it means to rehearse (and plan) the future of our urban waterbodies with humans and non-humans in mind.

Benjamín Maldonado, Orestes Kyrgiakis, Roos Capel and Iskra Cvitković are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). The board advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board about educational matters, such as the determination of the Course and Examination Regulations and the evaluation…

Erik Danen (Ph.D) is Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Maikel Kuijpers is Assistant Professor in European Prehistory at the Faculty of Archaeology. Though trained as an archaeologist, his work blurs the boundaries between the history of knowledge, anthropology, sociology, and archaeology.

In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the importance of art in science. ‘Artists have the ability to show the consequences of science.’

At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…

Leila Demarest is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science.

Lisa Lenderink is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Suzanne Klare is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Anthony Albright is a lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Miguel Mira is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research investigates the intersection of cinema and virtual reality with a focus on narratology.

Mustafa Colak is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Irene van Eldere is a PhD-candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society

I am a human geographer with expertise on urban and digital studies, contemporary Korea, and East Asia. I examine shifting forms of displacement at the intersection of class, gender, land, and technology. My projects are informed by critical urban theories, political economy, and feminist thoughts.

Marcos Neto de Cordova is an external PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

PhD candidate of ACPA/ docARTES programme.

Robbert Striekwold is a PhD student in the History of Biology at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research project concerns the history of ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th century.