1,650 search results for “New York Public Library Manuscript Division” in the Student website
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Jesse Dijkshoorn: ‘I had to learn to take time off’
Research master's student in history Jesse Dijkshoorn collaborated on a transcription system for medieval texts. ‘It’s nice to make the Middle Ages accessible to people.’
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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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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Researcher Fachrizal Afandi’s coronavirus year: 'I spoke at over 30 webinars'
In mid-March 2020, the global coronavirus outbreak changed everything in the Netherlands. Staying at home as much as possible and the 1.5 metre rule became the standard. One year on, we reflect on the past year with four Leiden Law School ‘insiders’. What kind of year did they have? And what are their…
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding'
What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wentz is trying to get closer to an answer to that question.
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Political Scientist Christina Toenshoff Wins Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award
Christina Toenshoff has been awarded the Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award for her PhD dissertation on corporate climate lobbying. The Leiden Political Scientist, according to the jury, ‘makes a significant contribution to the study of climate and business politics.’
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Pageantry as Public Diplomacy: Contested Receptions of English and French Dignitaries in the Netherlands, 1570s-1640s
Lecture, Research seminar 1000-1800
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Study Abroad Kick-off Session: Second-year bachelor’s students Public Administration and Security Studies
Study information
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Prioritizing Global Responsibilities: The Ethics of Global Priority-setting
Lecture
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ALFA New Year’s lecture and drinks
Alumni event, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:
- Presenting the wonders of early modern encyclopaedic collections in Leiden
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Online Information Session U.S. Business Law Academy
Lecture
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Sense Jan van der Molen new scientific director LION: ‘We strive for scientific excellence as well as a healthy work-life balance’
Sense Jan van der Molen is vanaf 1 maart de nieuwe wetenschappelijk directeur van het Leiden Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde.
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Our government should be more resilient
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many challenges. This makes it all the more difficult to make important decisions about pensions or the climate. Research and good education can help meet the challenges…
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Lunar New Year event Campus The Hague
Festival
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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’
Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa Lecture as planned on 26 November. She reflected on the protest and the importance of open debate, within the university and within a democracy.
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: Political leadership and the COVID-19 crisis
Even though the COVID-crisis continuously evolves and is marked by new realities and uncertainties, we can carefully begin to take stock looking back on the first phases of Dutch crisis management. What can we learn reflecting on the crisis strategies of this extraordinary and transboundary crisis that…
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A New Era in International Arbitration?
Roundtable
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Political Economy and Public Policy Talk: Juliana Chueri (VU Amsterdam): Evaluating the Political Power of Platform Companies
Lecture, Talks
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Special Colloquium 'News from the neutrino sky'
Lecture
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A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif
Lecture
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Campus Den Haag hosts 'On Campus' Experience Days
Last Saturday, Wijnhaven Campus and the Anna van Buerenplein were the setting for the first 'on campus' Experience Days in The Hague since the restrictive measures in higher education were introduced in March 2020. Spread over the day, some 200 students visited the campus to delve deeper into the 3…
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Bart van der SteenLeiden University Library
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These Science students excelled and won a KHMW Young Talent Prize
No fewer than seven Leiden FWN students received a Young Talent Award from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on Monday, 29 November. Mark van den Bosch and Karlijn Kruiswijk won a graduation prize, a group of young astronomers won the ET Outreach Award and the other five students each received an…
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Welcome to Leiden University
Welcome to Leiden University
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Asia Academy #13: Indonesia - A New Chapter
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Alumni panels
During the panels, alumni from all 4 FSW study programmes (Cultural Anthropology, Education and Child Studies, Political Science and Psycology) will share their experiences in their field of work. Each panel will focus on one field of work and will host 4 alumni, one from each FSW study programme.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland
Lecture
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Jewish angels who speak Arabic: Yemeni-Jewish vernacular religion in immigration context
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Eva BaudichauFaculty of Law
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Öykü KurtpinarFaculty of Law
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Somayeh DjafariFaculty of Law
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Anne StiggelboutFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Lianne OttenFaculty of Law
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Lieke Feenstra
Faculty of Law
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David EmmelkampFaculty of Law
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Elsemieke DaalderFaculty of Law
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Esteban SzmulewiczFaculty of Law
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Tuvana ArasFaculty of Law
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Lena RieckeFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Nikki Nilwik
Faculty of Law