1,068 search results for “culture anthropology” in the Staff website
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Johan RooryckFaculty of Humanities
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
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Claire SmuldersICLON
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Support
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Hylke HettemaFaculty of Humanities
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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Jill JefferyFaculty of Humanities
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Morgan RousselFaculty of Archaeology
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Saskia Cohen-Willner -
Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Social Context Matters: Researching Crime Across Countries, Across Cultures
KITLV&VVI Research Talk
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completion
It was more than twenty years ago that the plan for a Japanese-Dutch dictionary was born. Now it contains over 65,000 words, and completion is tentatively coming into view. Dictionary makers Oscar Veltink and Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren talk about their enthusiasm for this decades-long mammoth task.
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Perspectives on Taiwan's Cultural and Public Diplomacy
Conference, Workshop
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Daybreak in Gaza - Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Debate, BookTalk
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De schaduwzijde van erfgoedbescherming
World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.
- Borders Reimagined: Identity, Culture, and Justice in a Globalized World
- Netherlands Reproducibility Network Annual Symposium 2026: Culture Shift - Embedding Reproducibility
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Introducing: Matthew Frear
In September 2013 I moved to Leiden from the UK to take up the position of Assistant Professor covering politics and international relations on the BA Russian Studies and International Studies programmes and the MA Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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Criminal Justice Public Lecture: Maarten Kunst on victim rights
On 1 June 2022, Maarten Kunst, Professor of Criminology at Leiden Law School, gave a lecture on his research into the effects of the right to be heard on both the defendant and the victim. Victims have certain rights in the Dutch criminal process, including the right to be heard in criminal proceedings.…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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Roundtable: Utopia from Within
Debate, Roundtable
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’
The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were introduced to the faculty and language studies. ‘I had no idea that Hebrew and Arabic were similar.’
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Tailoring X-ray tomography techniques for cultural heritage research
PhD defence
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Cultural Pathways to Climate Action in the Anglophone Caribbean
PhD defence
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The Cultural Network: Javanese Imaginings of Indonesia, 1918-1966
PhD defence
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Which MPs have Leiden roots?
Twenty-two of the 150 newly elected members of the Dutch House of Representatives studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research here. But who are they and which degrees are most popular?
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People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago
Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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High media coverage of innovative research presenting a new method for recovering ancient human DNA
Since the publication of the article in the interdisciplinary journal Nature, over 200 news outlets have showcased the pioneering research.
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Negotiating Europeanness: Race, Class, and Culture in the Colonial World
Conference, Workshop
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Robert OkelloFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Ministry of BZK establishes two new professor chairs for the Kingdom
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations (BZK) is establishing two new professor chairs for the Kingdom.