2,249 search results for “New York Public Library Manuscript Division” in the Staff website
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Introducing the Tapestry Project with Bob Stein
Workshop
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Leiden University Network Meeting on Aging & Society
Network meeting
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AFITE/Una Europa conference ‘A Three-dimensional Initiative on Academic Freedom’
Conference
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A new social contract in western welfare states in an era of climate change, digitalization and ageing
Seminar
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Executive Board adopts committee’s recommendations on Israel-Palestine
The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and until further notice not to engage in any new exchange programmes with Israeli universities that have comparable links with the Israeli military (the…
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Leiden Law Cast: reverend Ruben Van Zwieten
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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“Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935
Lecture
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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Woodworkers and farmers 3000 years ago: transitions from the Rigveda to the Atharvaveda
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The Advent of Abrī: The First Wave of Paper Marbling in the Long 16th Century (ca. 1496–1616)
PhD defence
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Doctoral Performance Anna Bianco
PhD defence, Performance
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Martina Revello LamiFaculty of Archaeology
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Rachel SchatsFaculty of Archaeology
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Niels van WilligenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculty of Archaeology
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Wei ChuFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
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Petr KopeckySocial & Behavioural Sciences
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited to an event celebrating the publication of Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey's book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish
Lecture, Book talk
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professionals shared knowledge, gained inspiration and became acquainted or got to know each other even better at the third Leiden Research Support Conference…
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Nested garden-path sentences and the syntax-prosody interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Fixing the Outcomes of Transparency: Data Context and the Concentration of Explanatory Power.
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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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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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023