For this LeidenGlobal Annual Signature Event, South African journalist, historian and author Jacob Dlamini will be in conversation with Wayne Modest (Director of Content, NMVW) and Carine Zaayman (Researcher, RCMC). The conversation will reflect on our current moment in time, marked by intensified…

Guest Lecture | SSEALS

Hybrid Book Talk | SSEALS

A day in celebration of our collegue Peter Verhagen who is retiring, with keynotes by Prof. dr. Cristina Scherrer-Schaub and Dr. Reinier Langelaar For the full programme, please see attachment on the right side.

Debate, Leiden Asia Academy

Symposium

Lecture, Research Seminar

Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.

High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…

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…

Mingo, a 91-year-old fish lover from Bari, takes us with him into the physical, symbolic and cultural space of the market.

The disparities in terms of health and wellbeing in The Hague are considerable. A team headed by Jet Bussemaker, professor in the field of policy and society, wants to change that. The 'fences' in the healthcare system have to be got rid of. In particular the Laakkwartier and Moerwijs, two poorer areas…

2023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this year overview: we take you through the most important moments and news items month of each month.

On Thursday 28 September 2017 the Institute of Public Administration of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) organizes the event ‘Good Governance in Asia and the West: What is the Difference?’ as part of the Leiden Asia Year. Below you can read the interview with professor Zeger van der…

Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…

Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.

Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights Outstanding Student Research Theses

Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.

Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.

Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…

Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…

In the existing literature on Islamic legal history and South or Southeast Asian Islamic traditions, fatwa collections from the “peripheries” of the Muslim world have been largely ignored, despite a considerable presence of such texts in both regions. This paper focuses on two fatwa compilations from…

Lecture, China Seminar

CSW was initially a separatist strategy by women at the founding of the UN who recognized that experts on human rights were not necessarily experts on women’s rights. At its founding, CSW comprised of women delegates from diverse religious, cultural and ideological backgrounds creating an international…

The INVISIHIST research project invites all faculty and students to a special lecture hosted on Thursday, 14th March with Dr Mark Jones, Assistant Professor at University College Dublin.

The INVISIHIST research project invites all faculty and students to a special lecture hosted on Thursday, 16th May with Kristof Titeca, Professor at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium

INVISIHIST event with Steven L. B. Jensen

This will be an informal workshop to expand ongoing research collaborations. The key participants will give short presentations on their current research topics. This will be followed by informal discussion with a focus on among others: There has been much work on cultural identity in the present. But…

The Embassy of Ireland in the Netherlands and the University of Leiden are proud to present a joint event ‘Building the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation’.

Conference

Lecture

On December 1, 1924 professor Jean Philippe Vogel founded the Society Kern Institute in order to establish the Kern Institute, an institute of Indian archeology at the University of Leiden. The Kern Institute opened its doors in April 1925 and grew in the following decades. The society under the current…

Symposium

All are welcome, however please register in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and lunch.

Lecture

Inspired by the work of anti-colonial activist Anton de Kom, this talk will discuss the relationship between colonialism, slavery and citizenship and their contemporary afterlives. Taking the lives of the (formerly) colonized and their offspring as a point of departure, it takes issue with universalist-inclusive…

To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.

To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.

The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…

Lecture, VVIK lecture

This workshop considers the role of caste in diplomacy and international relations.

Join us for the ninth instalment of LAC’s Asia Academy as we delve deep into the heart of Indian democracy with Leiden University Associate Professor Nicolas Blarel. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are campaigning to be re-elected for a third five-year…

Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

Indonesia takes the center stage as it approaches the crucial 2024 Presidential Elections on February 14th, captivating global attention. It is the world’s largest Muslim-majority state, and with more than 200 million people eligible to vote it is the third-biggest democracy. This year’s elections come…

VVIK Lecture