1,654 search results for “culturele anthropology” in the Public website
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From scarcity to abundance: big data in archaeology
New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Computer Science, tells us all about it.
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In memoriam Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal (1939-2025)
On 4 December Professor Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal passed away. Van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal worked at the African Studies Centre from 1967 to 2002, when the ASC was not part of Leiden University yet. He became professor by special appointment at Leiden University on behalf of Leiden Law School in…
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Social Science Matters: scientist about voting behaviour
How do people vote? How rational are voting choices? How much do external factor weigh in? In this article social scientis provide some background.
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What works in social work? Large-scale research into social resilience policy interventions
The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the Netherlands were the reason for Anouk de Koning, Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to start working on a Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) application…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announce that all have accepted and will be joining various Leiden institutes this year. The five postdocs are Katia Hay, Johannes Müller, Maria-Paz Peirano,…
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’
Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the Connecting Social Sciences science festival on Friday 22 November, 2019. After the opening speeches and panel discussion on science and societal impact,…
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation
This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almost €510.000 enables 98 students and staff members to go on exchange.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Sugoi! Start of Leiden Asia Year
Throughout the coming year, all attention in Leiden will be on Asia. This special year, featuring numerous Asian events, conferences, exhibitions and concerts, celebrates the new Asian Library at Leiden University. Come and read, watch, listen, taste or dance Bollywood style.
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Call for Papers Conference: The "Others" amongst "Us"
The conference 'The
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Open Day: ‘The programme is what's most important'
More than 10,000 school-leavers and their parents visited the Open Day at Leiden University on 25 February. The prospective students were given information about the different programmes in Leiden and The Hague. 'I'm curious to hear about their experiences.'
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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Three new Leiden minors with internships in national security
Three new minors at the intersection of security and resilience will launch in September 2026 at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. A distinctive feature is that all three combine academic coursework with a practical placement in the field, within defence, the police, or emergency service…
- Lecture and Dialogue session "Sustainable Employability"
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
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Code as Critique: Relearning Technical Practice in the Ruins of Big Tech
Workshop
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In Search of a Homo Economicus Javanicus. From J. H. Boeke to Clifford Geertz.
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Lunch Talk Asia Research Cluster and Futuring Heritage Project
Lecture, Lunch Talk
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Rethinking the Wereldmuseum Leiden through Indigeneity and Contemporary Art
Course
- Liveable communities – Liveable Planet
- Sustainable Career Event
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Augmenting a Digital Nusantara: Re-generating Colonial Datasets in Technofeminist Art
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Making Futures? Technology Start-ups in Singapore.
PhD defence
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Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch
Exhibition
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LUCIP Workshop: "(re)reading and (re)writing Buddhist genders"
Debate
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Trade Unions in Morocco: National Unity, Political Struggle, and Trade Union Fragmentation in the Independent State, 1955-1978
PhD defence
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Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam
Lecture
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Reconfiguring Human–Animal Relations in Bhutan and the Himalayan Buddhist World
Lecture, CADS Research Seminar
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Profiling Heritage
Debate, Open meeting
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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Programme
This was the programme for The Knowledge Orchard 2025:
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Programme structure
The core curriculum equips students with the conceptual approaches and qualitative empirical research methods necessary to analyze law in context. Specialized electives enable students to dive deeper and focus on particular areas of legal practice—from legal mobilization to regulation and compliance…
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Shiʿi Studies International Conference 2025: New Directions and Perspectives
Conference
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[CANCELLED] Delicate Repertoires - Buddhist Creative Assimilation, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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SIMMR Presents: How to Un(name) a Tree
Artist Talk + Panel Discussion + Walking Tour
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Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
Workshop
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Introducing the Tapestry Project with Bob Stein
Workshop
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Delicate Repertoires- Buddhist Creativity, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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Experience Day Science for Sustainable Societies
Study information
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Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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ASCL Seminar: The politics of net zero in Africa. Insights from ongoing work
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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The Tripartite Being: Deity, Tsangphu mountain, and human as local environmental agents in the Dagor community of Eastern Bhutan
Lecture, Asia Research Cluster