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…

The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) is hosting an English-language event to mark the publication of Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) by Professor Bob de Graaff. This book offers a unique exploration of over a…

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

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…

The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…

The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…

From medicines from snake venom to supercrops and the origin of words. Thirteen researchers from Leiden University will receive Open Competition XS grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

The first hybrid Leiden Research Support Conference – organised for and by research support staff – took place on 27, 28 and 29 September and focused entirely on organising effective research support.

How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.

Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!

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,…

On Monday 19 February, CADS and CWTS welcomes Lindsay Poirier (Smith College, USA) for a research seminar: 'Fixing the Outcomes of Transparency: Data Context and the Concentration of Explanatory Power.' All are welcome, and we look forward to seeing you!

Guest Speaker: Dr Mateo Cohen Moderator: Dr Noa Schonmann We invite you to a conversation with Mateo Cohen, a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science researching Right Wing politics and democratic decay. Mateo will speak about ideological arguments articulated by…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century medical manuscript from Samarkand and more. Experience the richness and diversity of Leiden's Middle Eastern collections up close on Wednesday 25 September…

Film screening + Q&A

Please join us for our next LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Dr. Yann Ryan on Tuesday, 10 October 2023 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CET). Network analysis is widely used in the digital humanities. Network patterns are found again and again right across the social and natural worlds. Relatively easy…

LUCIS Meets… Ouassima Laabich, project lead of Berlin-based Superrr Lab, who researches Muslim youth and empowerment through an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on critical futures thinking, digitalization, archiving, and the arts. Laabich has worked particularly on Muslim Futures, a decolonial…

This roundtable brings together scholars working on the social production of migration and/or the social production of disability, to explore what a shared research agenda might look like, and bring us. What histories of knowledge production are we coming from, how should we relate to the knowledge…

In 2022, Climate Action Hub of TU Delft | The Hague and KlimaatHelpdesk have jointly hosted the first Media Training in The Hague. Together with more than 30 PhD’s and post-docs, we have discussed challenges of communicating the rapidly evolving insights of climate research to society. Participants…

This introductory workshop is intended for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in Arabic handwritten materials and the scholarly traditions that have engaged with these materials in the past and present. No previous experience with manuscripts is necessary, but knowledge…

On 13 October 2023, the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) commemorates its 30th anniversary. Join us for a festive day of cultural performances, interactive workshops, engaged discussions, and delicious foods! For three decades, IIAS has challenged conventional approaches to knowledge…

Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws…

This will be our first symposium of the year and it will be focused on connections between us and our heritage or our cultural roots. There will be 5 speakers covering a range of different topics, so we hope you are excited to hear all about their amazing research. The symposium will take place…

Day 1 – Wednesday 21st February 2024 Location: room 1.48 in the Lipsius building. Address: Cleveringaplaats 1 2311 BD Leiden Comparative and descriptive linguistic studies have been fundamental to understanding how languages are constructed, connected, and change. However, an important caveat is…

Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures

Workshop