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A long-term perspective on human niche construction and alteration of ecosystems
Dr. Katharine MacDonald (Faculty of Archaeology) sketches the background to a recent paper in Science Advances, co-authored by her and other members of the Liveable Planet team.
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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Research at the Faculty in 2018: a sneak preview
A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our faculty? What unites us, and what exciting developments do we anticipate?
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Five History projects selected for Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017
Five research projects of the Institute for History have been selected for the Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017. The programme was initiated by The Faculty of Humanities to offer motivated students the opportunity to develop themselves in academic research. In December the research trainees,…
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MIRD Graduation – Class of 2025: ‘More than a degree’
Een mijlpaal voor de Class of 2025 van de MSc International Relations and Diplomacy: een prestigieuze en internationale opleiding gevierd in Den Haag en Leiden.
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Being an Indonesian PhD in Leiden: what is that like?
Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme. With the help of this scholarship, literally thousands of students travel abroad to write their dissertations. During their research period, Arum and…
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Being an Indonesian PhD in Leiden: what is that like?
Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme. With the help of this scholarship, literally thousands of students travel abroad to write their dissertations. During their research period, Arum and…
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Blog Post | “We Don’t Post Anything Without Approvals.” Why Ministries of Foreign Affairs So Often Fail at Social Media
“The first thing to know is…we don’t post anything without approvals,” the lead social media manager at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) explained after I asked about the MFA’s social media processes. [1]
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Knowing the ocean means living with uncertainty
As sea levels rise and climate change speeds up, knowledge about the ocean becomes increasingly important. But how is this knowledge being created and how can we use it best to prepare for the future? To answers these questions, Jackie Ashkin studies the day-to-day work of ocean scientists from up c…
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Annual Review 2025
In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.
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Opening academic year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
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Taking Lives: Narratives of Latin American Femicide Perpetrators
Book launch
- Public graduation presentation, Lal Avgen
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
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VIVAS by Angélica Cruz Aguilar
Orange the World 2025
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In the Making #13: Exploring the Multidimensional Nature of Radio
Arts and culture
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Exile and a digital elsewhere
Film screening + Q&A
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Can patterns save ecosystems from collapse?
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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From Hygienic Cities to Fossil Urbanism: Global Forces, Local Contexts, and Urban Environmental History
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
Workshop
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Europe and the Global Battle of the Narratives
Public Panel
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Exploring the Quantum Multiverse
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Temporalities of Futuring: Heritage, Custom and Tradition in the Himalayas
Workshop
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The Crimmigrators
Lecture
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Crisis in Gaza: Protecting the Population and Those Who Support Them, the Case of UNRWA
Panel discussion
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
Conference
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AI in the Public Sector: Not Just Plug and Play
Lecture
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ReCNTR: My Want of You Partakes of Me
ReCNTR Film Screening
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Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague: The International Criminal Court, the War on Drugs, and the Global Politics of Justice
Lecture, Roundtable Forum
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Anatomy of the EU tax list: a case-study on EU external tax policy
PhD defence
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Student for a Day - MSc Crisis and Security Management, spec. War and Peace Studies
Study information
- Anchoring Objects: Material culture and the dynamics of innovation in the ancient world
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Iran Between War and Tyranny: What Comes Next?
Debate
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Geopolitical Resource Dependence: U.S.-China Rivalry and Firm Import Strategies
Lecture
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Bridging Micro- and Macro-Sociohistorical Perspectives: A Study of Multilingual Practices in a Franco-Manitoban Family Correspondence (1939–1999)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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65th Leiden-London conference: Flexible EU membership amid geopolitical needs and legal constraints
Conference
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Rethinking Open Science through dependency theory
Seminar
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The Universality of Literature: Giacomo Prampolini, Translator and Mediator
Conference
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Get to know the team
Meet the people behind Science for Sustainable Societies! As a small-scale and hands-on bachelor’s programme, our team plays a big role in shaping your learning experience. In this section, you will find interviews with the people who make this programme happen: our teachers, researchers, educational…
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here you can find answers to some frequently asked questions about the Public Administration master's programme.
- Volume 7 (2012)
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Online exhibition
TEXTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. Highlights from the Collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Online exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation ‘Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’ in 2015.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here you can find answers to some frequently asked questions about the Public Administration master's programme.