Leiden is a picturesque university city that’s brimming with history and boasts a student culture that’s tangible just about everywhere. The university has contributed to the city’s unique atmosphere for over 400 years, since its founding in 1575. Leiden’s historical centre is full of student associations,…

Recent years have seen a renewed resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in the topic of the plantation–an industrial formation and enduring logic that has been instrumental to the rise of colonial racial capitalism and the construction of modern nations and natures. Drawing on long-term fieldwork…

The eighth edition of the Middle East Culture Market in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden will take place in the weekend of 11-12 November. Please join us to experience the rich and diverse culture of the Middle East from 10:00 until 17:00 hrs. Specialists from Leiden University…

Lecture

Climate change is a hot topic and constantly in the news. Thousands of Dutch high school students protested at the Malieveld in The Hague. News website Nu.nl has barred climate change deniers from their comments section to prevent ‘fake news’. How does climate change impact the research community, and…

Better supervision of PhD candidates, clear guidelines on career paths and an MRI scanner that can be accessed by all researchers: these are the recommendations from the new self-evaluation. Colleagues say: ‘This forces us as an institute to formulate our mission and vision more precisely.’

The MA Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University is a one-year, full-time programme taught entirely in English. With over four centuries of expertise in Middle Eastern scholarship, this programme offers you cutting-edge insights into the region’s history, politics, religion, languages, and culture…

To be eligible for Archaeological Science at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.

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

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

Are you passionate about our planet? Are you keen to find solutions to environmental problems that make a real impact? Do you feel that either natural sciences or social sciences by themselves are not enough to tackle today’s complex sustainability issues? Then Science for Sustainable Societies at Leiden…

What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…

Fall armyworm and smallholder farming in rural Kenya

Conference, Workshop

Conference, Exhibition

Drug development critically depends on preclinical models that mimic human physiology, yet traditional two-dimensional cultures and animal models often lack predictive power.

A new study published in Archaeometry describes the unexpected results obtained from analyses of five human teeth discovered in a ritual cache at an enslaved African plantation site on the island of Saba in the Caribbean.

In late May 2019, the Food citizens? team traveled to Poland for a project meeting and team outing. This was made possible by the European Research Council’s support and facilitated networks and knowledge-generation.

New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 words ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Archol, the National Museum…

Exchange selecting courses and projects

Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.

One of the most disruptive infrastructures in the history of Brazil is the Suape Port Complex, which from the 1970s was responsible for a rapid transformation of the coast south of Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco. The communities that were displaced and that live today around the port have…

Situated on the west coast of modern Turkey, the site of Ephesus is one of the largest excavations in Turkey and one of the most visited tourist attractions. Only one tenth of the city has been exposed until now although the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna (ÖAI) has been excavating here…

Prof.dr. B.A. Barendregt Prof.dr. H. Schulte Nordholt Summary See Dutch page.

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and the Leiden University Institute for History (LUIH) are looking for a PhD in the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Want to get to know Leiden University's English-taught master's programmes without travelling to the Netherlands? Visit us at Postgrad LIVE Edinburgh and meet Regine, our representative, who can tell you all about studying in Leiden or The Hague.

Want to get to know Leiden University's English-taught master's programmes without travelling to the Netherlands? Visit us at the Study in Holland Fair and meet our representatives who can tell you all about studying in Leiden or The Hague.

Want to get to know Leiden University's English-taught master's programmes without travelling to the Netherlands? Visit us at the Study in Holland Fair and meet our representatives who can tell you all about studying in Leiden or The Hague.

Conference, Interdisciplinary Workshop

Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of life's stages.

Book launch

What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question together with PhD candidate Joeri Arion and heritage specialist Valika Smeulders. Other researchers and the islanders themselves are also collaborating…

Lecture, Research Seminar

The KNIR has awarded Elisa Goudriaan the Ted Meijer Prize for her dissertation The Cultural Importance of Florentine Patricians. Cultural Exchange, Brokerage Networks, and Social Representation in Early Modern Florence and Rome (1600-1660).

Join ReCNTR for a double program with films by Deborah A. Thomas and John L. Jackson, Jr, this year’s Gerbrands Laureates who will be in attendance to share three films and discuss their ideas of experimental ethnography.

Workshop

LUCIS Meets… Ouassima Laabich, project lead of Berlin-based Superrr Lab, who researches Muslim youth and empowerment through an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on critical futures thinking, digitalization, archiving, and the arts. Laabich has worked particularly on Muslim Futures, a decolonial…

For the bachelor's course Past and Future, Archaeology students visited Castellum Hoge Woerd (Utrecht), a modern interpretation of the Roman fort that stood on that exact spot. It features an archaeological museum, the remains of a Roman river ship, a theater, and a restaurant. Students were tasked…

Armed with sunglasses, a thick layer of sunscreen and several bottles of water, over 3,300 students have arrived in Leiden for their introduction week. The start of the 55th EL CID happened to be on the hottest day of the year.

The 10th Experimental Archaeology Conference of EXARC took place in Leiden, Netherlands, over three days; 20th to the 22nd April 2017, in Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology. A conference report was published on the website of EXARC.

Want to get to know Leiden University's English-taught bachelor's programmes without travelling to the Netherlands? Visit us at EduExpos Madrid and meet Regine, our representative, who can tell you all about studying in Leiden or The Hague.