PhD defence

Prof.dr. J.P. van der Leun Prof.dr. M.J. van Meeteren (Radboud) dr. J.A. van Wilsem (Algemene Rekenkamer)

Prof.dr. M. van der Stelt Prof.dr. L.H. Heitman dr. R.J.B.H.N. van den Berg

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…

Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks

Taking stock of the way the European Union has been studied and practiced so far, and as a sub-field of international relations, and in the light of increasing contestation of European integration inside and outside the EU, but also rapid transformation due to poly-crises, the return of conventional…

The Hangzhou National Art School (now China Academy of Art) was founded in 1928 as part of the modernization drive during the Nanjing decade. Classes were basically modelled on the French Beaux-Arts system, but with significant modifications to adapt to the situation in Republican China. Research so…

Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing against him. But where their legend still lives, their tale ended long ago... Let us begin a new saga, let us find new heroes, weave a new story - by the…

Dr. Vanessa Newby (ISGA) and Dr. Catherine Jones from St Andrews won a grant worth over €23.000 from the RSE Saltire Facilitation Network Award entitled: ‘Worse Things Happen at Sea’: The Governance & Security of the Ocean. The grant will comprise three workshops in 2022: one in Leiden, one in Edinburgh…

Five lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award. With the grants they can carry out an innovation project.

In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.

Back when record companies used to send radio stations vinyl records, the “A side” of the record would be the intended hit single, and there would be another song, not necessarily good enough to be a single, on the “B side”. Similarly, it’s been said that modality and causation are “two sides of…

Debate, BASIS The Hague, Universiteit Leiden

Alumnus Rennie Roos lives and works in Indonesia. What took him there, what does he do there and what inspires him?

Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous Prof.dr. F. Ameka Summary In one of Africa's most blended, cosmopolitan and vibrant border towns, Aflao, Ghana, a captivating youth culture has given birth to an Ewe-based youth language called Adzagbe 'rogue/hooligan language'. An exploration of recorded conversations, interviews,…

Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'

A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.

Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.

The appeal of audiovisual products is largely due to the combination of visual and auditory resources, but professional subtitling continues to focus on words, assuming that non-verbal elements, such as images or sounds, are universal codes that are easily interpreted by the audience without additional…

Dr Nathalie Brusgaard both studied and finished her PhD at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. After a few years spreading her wings, she is now back. As the new Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department, she will continue her research on the relationship between prehistoric humans and…

Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.

Challenges such as climate change, social inequalities and military conflicts threaten the everyday lives and future prospects of European citizens. A common European response can be stronger and more ambitious than separate and uncoordinated actions. It can also ensure better value for money spent…

Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…

Prof.dr. T.R. van Andel dr. M. Wang

PhD defence

Prof. Zangenberg came to Leiden in 2006 as Professor for New Testament and Early Christian Literature and is now Chair for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

We are happy to announce that the Leiden Slavery Studies Association is co-organizing the 4th annual PhD seminar on slavery and extreme dependency, to be hosted this year by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) at the University of Bonn on 30 and 31 October 2023. This…

This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link.

Dansō is a Japanese term that literally means "male clothing" and is used to describe women who crossdress as men. Since 2014, I have been conducting an ethnographic study of a community of dansō working as non-sexual escorts in Akihabara, Tokyo. My aim has been to understand why dansō choose to crossdress,…

Waarom is empirisch-juridisch onderzoek van belang voor de rechtspraktijk en het wetenschappelijke onderzoek? Op die vraag kregen masterstudenten van de afstudeerrichtingen civiel recht, ondernemingsrecht en financieel recht antwoord tijdens het congres over empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht…

Lecture

Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…

Debate, Book Launch

Lecture with Dr. Jonathan Singerton (History Institute, VU University Amsterdam), organised by the Austria Centre Leiden. Lunch is provided. Please RSVP to Sarah Cramsey: s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl

LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".

Lecture, Book Roundtable

The “facts” that would allow us to construct a coherent biographical account of Izumi Shikibu’s life are flimsy at best and tell us little about the actual events and conditions that shaped it. It is through her poetic compositions, a diary Izumi Shikibu nikki attributed (not without contention) to…

This presentation intends to understand democracy in late-1950s Japan through studying post-war new education, notably the evolution of educational and learning activities directed at mothers. Post-war Japanese mothers were expected to take on the role of bearers of a democratic society and assumed…

Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…

Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…

Bringing together chemists and physicists to thoroughly investigate how electrochemical processes work on the smallest scale. That is the goal of the new Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute of the Netherlands, or ANION for short. The consortium receives a Gravitation funding of 23.6 million euros…

For a while, it was uncertain whether prominent American politician Nancy Pelosi would travel to Taiwan. But last Tuesday, she did visit – much to the displeasure of China. Asia expert Casper Wits explains why China reacted so strongly and what the consequences of the visit may be.

Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 November 2023. This once again puts the university in third place among broad universities ranked according to top programmes.

On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’

As societies diversify due to various migration patterns, healthcare providers are increasingly challenged by linguistic and cultural barriers. Finding ways to bridge such boundaries is essential in healthcare, since success or failure of the communication may become a matter of life or death (Ng &…

Asia is the world’s fastest-aging region, and Japan along with South Korea and Singapore lead this trend. Today, twenty-nine percent of Japan’s population is sixty-five or older, the highest proportion in the world. By 2040, that figure is projected to reach thirty-one percent. Acknowledging the country’s…