976 search results for “early modern human” in the Staff website
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Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
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Venturing with the Humanities
Alumni event
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Development of Humanities Campus
Our aim with the Humanities Campus is to create a sustainable and attractive campus with ample green spaces and opportunities for interaction, complemented by modern and future-proof facilities. The campus is being developed in stages. On this page, you can find information about the planning, latest…
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Human Resources
The university strives to create a pleasant working environment for everyone. From terms of employment to health and development: here you will find the right information and support.
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Humanities PhD Symposium 2026
Conference, Symposium
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Rik SchalbroeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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In early modern England, children were sold to the highest bidder: 'This was presented as a care system'
Children who lost their fathers in early modern England ran the risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Although Shakespeare wrote about it in his plays, the practice disappeared from collective memory for a long time. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers is bringing it back to light in a new Vidi research…
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Humanities Education Market
Conference
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Archaeologist Marie Soressi joins the discussion about the early use of bow-and-arrow technology in Europe
Nature News reported on the use of bow-and-arrow for hunting based on the research made on small points found in a 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France.
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Jelmar HugenFaculty of Humanities
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Pim van der HelmFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Travis BowmanFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
Conference
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2026
Conference
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones
On 27 May 2025, the Executive Board decided to establish a Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones.
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Dutch vacancy: Vice Dean Education at Humanities
Human resources
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Archaeologists come up with a more precise estimate for how long modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed
Modern humans and Neanderthals may have co-existed in France and Northern Spain for up to 2,900 years until the Neanderthals disappeared. This is what archaeologists from Leiden University and Cambridge University write in a new publication in Scientific Reports.
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Aron van de PolFaculty of Humanities
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Joanne MouthaanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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High diversity in lifeways among early Caribbean inhabitants
The first settlers of the Caribbean have long been regarded as bands of highly mobile groups who subsisted exclusively by hunting, gathering, and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been increasing evidence for the cultivation of domesticated plants by early groups and a lower degree of mobility…
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Core curriculum course Humanities in a Digital World
From 2026-2027, the Faculty of Humanities will add a new core curriculum course to its education: Humanities in a Digital World. The new course will prepare all students for their role as humanities specialists in the digital society. The course has been developed by experts from different study programmes…
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Dinko Fabris appointed professor: 'Music must live'
Musicologist Dinko Fabris has been appointed professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). He started on 1 September. 'I’m looking forward to making a connection with society.'
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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KNAW Early Career Partnerships
Research
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Early hunter-gatherers reshaped Europe’s ecosystems long before agriculture
In a new study published in PLOS One, Leiden archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina, together with an international team from France, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, challenges the long-held belief that early humans had minimal impact on their environment before the rise of farming.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Introducing: Lauren Lauret
In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.
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Leonie VreekeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Scientific Integrity for PhD candidates in Archaeology and the Humanities
Research
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities