How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.

Please note this event will be in Dutch. This festive book presentation highlights Prof. em. Henk Versnel’s important position in the study of religion in the ancient world. Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) will introduce three speakers who will each share a personal reflection on Henk…

Conference

Kseniya Oksamytna presents her latest book: “Advocacy and Change in International Organizations. Communication, Protection, and Reconstruction in UN Peacekeeping”. The book critically examines how international organizations change and expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. The book argues…

Sri Lanka has a complex layered history of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonialism. Historians, anthropologists, writers and heritage specialists are concerned how to narrate this past and question how it speaks to the present. During this event a team of Sri Lankan and Dutch researchers will present…

Seminar

How can social scientists contribute to a healthier society? That question was central to the Healthy Society Event on 9 June 2022, which successfully marked the start of a more conscious and intensive collaboration between the five Institutes of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences on education…

This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.

Research Integrity (RI) is high on the agenda of both institutions and science policy. The European Union as well as national ministries of science have launched ambitious initiatives to combat misconduct and breaches of research integrity. Often, such initiatives entail attempts to regulate scientific…

This message is to remember his inspiring contributions to the global development of air and space law, the formation of innovative aviation policy and his dynamic commitment to the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University.

The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or junior scholar. The prize celebrates excellence in philosophy of physics, and promotes breadth across the field both historically and philosophically.

LUCIR (Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations), in cooperation with ISGA (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and GTGC (Global Transformations and Global Challenges Initiative), will host a conference on 2 and 3 December 2021 about the lessons that may be learned from Afghanistan.…

The Centre for Public Values and Ethics (CPVE) is pleased to announce the inaugural Leiden Public Ethics Undergraduate Conference. As a leading interdisciplinary academic centre of expertise, the CPVE is dedicated to advancing research on normative issues in public sector governance and ethics. This…

Lecture

During the annual meeting of the Leiden Africa Platform, Leiden based Africanists will give short pitches about their current research or future plans. To register, please mail to LeidenAfricaPlatform@asc.leidenuniv.nl

Lecture, LAC Asia Academy

Seminar

Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), which emphasizes the Palestine-Israel issue alongside regional conflicts, trends and geopolitics. From 2012 to 2016, Levy was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that…

Book Launch Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War

Panel discussion

Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network

The Faculty of Humanities wants to take a stand in the middle of society with its research and education. That’s why last year, in the middle of a pandemic, the Societal Advisory Board was founded. What are the members’ plans?

On this page you can find information on past events, either organized or funded by SAILS.

The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.

This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…

The research conducted at the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology unit investigates the psychological factors of health and disease, which allows for the development of innovative treatments.

This guided walk will be in Dutch: please refer to the Dutch event page for more information. If you want to do this walk by yourself, you can download the walking route (PDF, in Dutch)

Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…

Using the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star GJ1151. The radio waves bear the tell-tale signature of aurorae caused by an interaction between a star and its planet. The radio emission from a star-planet…

Young Academy Leiden (YAL) will change its board this month and welcome seven brand-new members.

They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days before the European elections, Julia Gencheva and Vincent Miča talk about how they ended up in Brussels and what their jobs entail.

MetaROR, a new open peer review platform, was launched today at the AIMOS 2024 conference in Canberra, Australia. MetaROR is a joint initiative of AIMOS and RoRI. As a core partner in RoRI, CWTS has been involved in the development of the platform with a couple of colleagues and is proud to contribute…

How do you turn your thesis into an academic article? That's a question Floortje Fontein, who conducted research into inclusive leadership, can answer. She looked at how public managers manage a diverse team. She got a 9 for her thesis and is currently working on several articles based on the results…

Christina Luise Toenshoff: the impact of elections on the Green Deal Stefan Cetkovic: energy Billy Tsagkroni: farmers and the populist right Niki Yordanova: EU parliament responsiveness Adina Akbik: Spitzenkandidaten

In the 1990s, post-Soviet Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, arrested thousands of practicing Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study groups, forcing them to sign pre-written confessions that led to decades in prison on terrorism and treason charges. Following Karimov’s…

Symposium

Panel discussion

This lecture will be held in English as part of the Lorentz center workshop 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries', organized by Lieke Smits, Veerle Fraeters and Anna Dlabacova. For more information, please see https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/religious-imagination-in-the-late-m…

This activity is organized as part of the Ancient Worlds Network Lecture Series, by Miriam Müller and Caroline Waerzeggers (supported by LIAS). Raimo Hakola is the co-director of excavations at Horvat Kur and senior lecturer of New Testament Studies at the University Helsinki. He will…

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, the guest lecture by Andrei Arkhangelsky on May 17 is cancelled. Hopefully we can reschedule it to the end of September. We will keep you posted.

The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) is happening on 12 June 2023! Ticket are not availalbe anymore, we are sold out.

We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration to say: there is a before and after social media.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Northern-Netherlandish artists drew outdoors to train their hands and eyes, and to record landscapes and nature. In her inaugural lecture on 21 March 2022, Yvonne Bleyerveld, Professor by Special Appointment of Art on Paper and Parchment, draws our attention to a…

From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) hold many sources that provide insight into the development of tourism in the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, from 1870…

Staff members, alumni, and students were greeted by a warm spring day to follow the various programmes during the reunion and career day of BA South and Southeast Asian Studies. From alumni panels and yoga session to informal activities such as board games.

Studenten onderzochten maatschappelijke vraagstukken voor het project Leren met de Stad en presenteerden hun resultaten tijdens een informatiemarkt.

Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros enables researchers who show potential to start their own project, lead a research team and implement their best ideas.

Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite history after revealing they were affected by an unusual ancient form of the bone disorder, Paget’s disease. Osteoarchaeologist Carla Burrell, attached…

How do you bring education and practice closer together? In the revised Master MPS (Management of the Public Sector) it is done, for example, through the new profile course Leadership & Behaviour inside and between organisations. The Leiden Leadership Centre (LLC) is involved in organising the course.…

International alumnus Alejandro tells us in a flash about why it is so important to physically be in Leiden for your studies, about how important his Advanced Master was to his employers and how AI and tech affects his line of work.