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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Maikel KuijpersFaculty of Archaeology
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Song TanFaculty of Humanities
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit-Jan ZwenneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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André van der LaanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jonathan HuijtsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gert Jan GeertjesFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bruno BraakFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bart LabuschagneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Georgina KuipersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Santy KouwagamFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anastasia NikulinaFaculty of Archaeology
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Pinar ÖlcerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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EMERGENCE: Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe
In the 19th century, Old English poems were claimed as cultural heritage by various non-Anglophone nations, including Scandinavians, Germans and Dutch. These competing nationalistic, cultural appropriations happened against the backdrop of a growing interest in early medieval English language and literature…
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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’
‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture
- Volume 6 (2011)
- Volume 11 (2016)
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Lecture, Keynote Lectures
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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How European blind spots strengthen the shadow order
As a strategy and international security specialist, Julien Bastrup-Birk (41) has advised both NATO and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and worked at the UK Foreign and Defence ministries. Next week, he will defend his PhD on clandestine non-state power in the international system.
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Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
Conference
- Volume 4 (2009)
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AFITE
The EU fundamental right to ‘freedom of the arts and sciences’: exploring the limits on the commercialisation of academia (AFITE) AFITE is an interdisciplinary five-year research project. It is funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), as part of its Vidi scheme. Its principal…
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Book Reviews
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy regularly publishes reviews of recent books within the field of diplomacy and global affairs, written in English, Spanish, French, or German.
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nationalism and the continuing significance of the national in an uncertain world
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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The Powers of International Investment Tribunals
PhD defence
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Still Seeking Permission To Narrate: On International Law And The Question Of Palestine
Lecture
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Democracy under Threat
Alumni event, Cleveringa meeting Leiden 2025
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
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…
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South
Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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Dr. Larik presents Brexit research at 10th Anniversary CLEER Conference
On 6 and 7 December, the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), which is hosted by the T.M.C. Asser Institute, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a conference on
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Researchers crack the rules of unknown board game from the Roman period
Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier than previously assumed.
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How do our language rules come about?
Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.
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Prudent Resistance: Hezbollah's Endurance in a Hostile World
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Symposium: Resilience and Delinquency in a Digital World
Conference, Symposium
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
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Clinical features of GIST real-world setting
PhD defence
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing
In 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, British and Germans. But when the Nazis showed their true colours, Rector Magnificus decided to intervene...
- How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized with LUGO
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Discover our Perspectives on the Past
The Faculty of Archaeology proudly presents the research brochure Perspectives on the Past, featuring passionate, dedicated researchers introducing a dazzling scala of research topics: from present-day traditional knowledge in Africa to the power of glue in Palaeolithic Europe. In addition to these…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…