The Humanities Faculty bachelor’s degree programmes in History, and Greek and Latin language and culture were rated by students as the best. The master’s programmes in Classics and Ancient Civilisations, Dutch Studies and North American Studies also received the highest scores. These were the results…

The ethics of ghosts, spectres, and mediums in postcolonial literature

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Greek culture in the Roman world.

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This project proceeds from the observation that since the second half of the twentieth century, forgiveness and reconciliation have become pervasive themes in western culture, both on a political level and in personal relations.

Kartika Setyawati defended her thesis on 12 November 2015

Serial learners: interactions between Funnel Beaker West and Corded Ware communities in the Netherlands during the third millennium BCE from the perspective of ceramic technology

On Tuesday 14 January 2025 Milan Ismangil successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman antiquity.

This Conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspec-tives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia.

From 1550 onwards, a great interest in the natural world developed across Europe. This interest was not only stimulated by a growing knowledge of local flora and fauna, but also by the import of numerous exotic animal and plant species. Think, for instance, of researches and collectors like Gessner…

In this doctoral dissertation (2012) the effects of the monetization of the Greek world in the 5th and 4th century on conceptions of reciprocity in friendship are analyzed.

This dissertation offers a reconstruction of the propositional contents of the writings of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt while bringing these into discussion with their performative meanings, such as polemical forms of reasoning, analogical and metaphorical uses of language, and hidden…

Jochem van den Boogert defended his thesis on 18 November 2015

In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.

The Faculty of Humanities consist of various academic fields. What is the common ground of all these different academics and students? They tell their story and why it matters in today’s world in 'We are Humanities'.

On Friday 22 November 2024 Ye Jiang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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Alumni event, Lustrum

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The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has elected six professors from Leiden as members.

On the 26th of May Sudarmoko successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

You can participate in community-building events, alumni sessions, and internship information meetings. Student associations also organise cultural and social activities.

Cognitive psychology is the study of cognitive functions such as attention, memory, consciousness, emotion, language and action control. The goal is to understand the complex relationships between brain, mind and behavior.

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