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• Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize News - 24 October 2024

  Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: Het volkomen geleerdenleven van Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje'.

• Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter Event - 13 January 2026

  Conference

• 
  Felicia Rosu Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ News - 18 January 2022

  As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’

• Centre for the History of European Integration Seminar Series Event
• Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden News - 22 November 2023

  Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

• Introducing: prof. Scott Nelson News - 14 March 2016

  Introducing prof. Scott Nelson, the Legum Professor of the Social Sciences at William and Mary, and on the spring exchange at the University of Leiden.

• NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? News - 28 June 2022

  Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.

• Manon Schouten: ‘I’m the kind of teacher who also works on her profession during the weekend.’ News - 15 April 2023

  After a detour via the ANWB in Munich, alumna Manon Schouten works as a history teacher at two schools. ‘It's so rewarding to see the material resonate with students.’

• ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa Event - 6 February 2025

  Lecture

• ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands News - 27 October 2023

  The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…

• Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’ News - 25 July 2022

  A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025 Event
• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024 Event
• Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden News - 14 June 2023

  Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.

• Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025 Event
• Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives Event - 17 January 2025

  Conference

• 
  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• 
  Tycho van der Hoog PhD candidate / Guest

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• 
  Ellen van Reuler Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• 
  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• 
  Mark Rutgers Chair of the Board ASCL

  Faculty of Humanities

• Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Event
• European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025 Event - 26 March 2025

  Conference

• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2025-2026 Event
• Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar Event - 6 November 2023

  Lecture, Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar and Ancient Worlds Network Lecture

• Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024 Event - 2 September 2024

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’ News - 12 April 2022

  This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.

• Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024 Event - 23 October 2024

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• The Roman empire and world history Event - 30 January 2026

  Debate

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 11 October 2024

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• 
  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Marie-leen Ryckaert Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities News - 19 June 2023

  What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.

• The history of Medicine and Asia Event - 6 October 2023

  Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

• Why have murals been used in social and political movements? News - 4 October 2022

  Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…

• Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations' News - 14 June 2021

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…

• 
  Maria Voltsichina PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 6 December 2024

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery Event - 14 October 2025

  Lecture

• Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology News - 5 February 2025

  Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.

• Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina News - 19 May 2022

  82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 7 February 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

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  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Nuranisa Nuranisa PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alexander van der Meer Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities