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• Week 5: 3-9 February 2019 Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

• Archive Alumni Newsletter

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• Career prospects Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence (research) (MA)

• Career prospects Assyriology (research) (MA)

• Admission requirements Heritage and Museum Studies (MA)

  If you would like to apply for this programme, you should first check the admission requirements.

• Career prospects History, Arts and Culture of Asia (MA) (60EC)

• Programme structure Archaeology (BA)

  Study all aspects of human life in the past and take on a broad, historic perspective.

• Career prospects Egyptology (research) (MA)

• MIRD Students deepen their knowledge of EU and UN institutions in Brussels News - 27 October 2025

  From 13 to 15 October, first-year students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) travelled to Brussels, the heart of the European Union, to visit key EU and UN institutions.

• Experience Day Science for Sustainable Societies Event - 21 November 2024

  Study information

• Verticality, Agronomic Turn, and the Making of Colonial Botany in the Dutch East Indies Event - 17 October 2025

  Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

• Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones News - 30 August 2016

  We are pleased to announce that on the 30th of September Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (The Netherlands) will be launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) all about human osteoarchaeology!

• IBL Spotlight - Science Communication & Society Event - 12 January 2023

  Lecture

• Landscapes of Survival Research project

  Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan’s Black Desert (200 BC to 800 AD)

• Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China Event - 3 April 2024

  Debate, China Seminar

• ‘Fanatical collectors often have a sense of lack or loss’ News - 20 January 2023

  Leiden Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, Pieter ter Keurs, conducts research into the provenance of museum collections. This is important for the return of heritage. But Ter Keurs is interested in why people collect at all.

• Humans of Humanities Dossier: We are Humanities

  In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.

• Exhibition Books that made history News - 31 May 2022

  From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…

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  Hanno Pijl Professor Diabetology, in particular the neuroendocrine regulation of diabetes and obesity

  Faculteit Geneeskunde

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  Monique van den Dries Associate professor / department chairwoman

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Aris Politopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Francesco Ragazzi Associate professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Bart Schuurman Professor Terrorism and Political Violence

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jan Kolen Dean / Professor Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Roeland Emaus PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Frans Theuws Professor Emeritus of Medieval Archaeology of Europe

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Lotte van Dillen Professor Social psychology

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Marlou Schrover Professor of Economic and Social History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mayke Kaag Professor Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa

  African Studies Centre

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  Eric van Dijk Professor of Psychology and Social Decision Making

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football News - 4 May 2022

  Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.

• Approved Excavation Projects News - 14 November 2018

  We are happy to announce that the following missions have been approved by the Ministry of Antiquities, pending final security confirmations:

• GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest News - 16 February 2016

  Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)

• Data on Display: Visualisation as a form of argumentation in exhibitions News - 7 December 2020

  On November 30th Joost Grootens gave a lecture at the workshop ‘Data on Display: Visualisation as a form of argumentation in exhibitions’ organised by the Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (Austria)

• Digital Humanities Winter School Event - 27 January 2025

  Workshops

• Leiden Classics: Caspar Reuvens, the world’s first professor of archaeology News - 30 October 2014

  Leiden archaeology is booming. Our archaeologists take part in major international projects covering not only the Netherlands but large areas of the globe. Caspar Reuvens (1793-1835) was also keen on this division: he had one foot in the Netherlands and the other in the Mediterranean world.

• Leiden University transfers unique collection of historical objects over to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave News - 11 February 2025

  Lenses from Christiaan Huygens’ telescope, instruments used to demonstrate Newton’s laws, and equipment that led to the discovery of superconductivity—around 3,000 scientific instruments from the Faculty of Science at Leiden University are now officially part of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave collection.…

• How can you rescue clay tablets from the war in Syria? News - 7 June 2018

  On 7 June, the National Museum of Antiquities opened a mini exhibition 'Scanning for Syria'. The exhibition shows how Leiden archaeologists and Delft technical specialists make reconstructions of 3000-year-old Assyrian clay tablets. The originals, stored in museum depots in Raqqa (Syria), have been…

• Anna Loh: ‘Art is the one constant factor in my life’ News - 22 June 2020

  Anna Loh is a third-year student of the BA in Arts, Media and Society. We spoke with Anna about what it’s like to write a thesis during COVID-19, Instagram selfies at the museum and growing up abroad.

• Sponsored Research Dossier: Global Interactions

  Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.

• ENPAIR Conference, The Hague 2024 European Network on Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation

  The fourth ENPAIR conference will take place in The Hague, The Netherlands, at the Leiden University campus. We will meet there and find us in the middle of The Hague, international city of peace and justice, within walking distance from restaurants, bars, cafés, museums, and cultural institutions.

• Values and valuables Research project

  The role of material culture in early colonial encounters in the Caribbean

• The pentagonal universe of Gerard Caris Old Observatory Leiden

• Remembering Terrorism: The Case of Norway Research output

  As terrorism scholars, we are intrigued by those who engage in violence. We study their motivations, tactics, ideology, organisational structures, and pathways to (de-)mobilisation, hoping to better understand terrorism and how we can counter it. Far less attention is paid to what happens after an attack…

• Time and persistence Research project

  Contemporary Maya Calendars

• Nationalism: A World History Research output

  A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present.