Odile Bodde tells about her stay in London at King's College...

On or around 26 November every year, Cleveringa meetings are organised for Leiden alumni throughout the world. Including in Tokyo, where Professor of Japan Studies Ivo Smits delivered his Clevering lecture to a packed hall.

If you decide to join this Student for a Day event, you: attend a lecture, join a tour of the faculty meet current students. It’s an ideal opportunity to get to know the Urban Studies programme. Who can take part? Everyone is welcome for a Student for a Day event at Urban Studies!…

If you decide to join this Student for a Day event, you: attend a lecture, join a tour of the faculty meet current students. It’s an ideal opportunity to get to know the Urban Studies programme. Who can take part? Everyone is welcome for a Student for a Day event at Urban Studies!…

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The Program Board of Russian Studies and study association MOST cordially invite you to the traditional alumni day on Saturday 28 October. This is an excellent opportunity to catch up with former fellow students and lecturers, meet new staff members and make useful contacts in the professional field…

During a Student for a Day event you will attend one or multiple first-year lectures. A current student joins you at the lectures and shows you around campus. Of course there is enough time to answer all your questions about the programme and studying in The Hague! Who can take part? The Student…

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During a Student for a Day event you will attend one or multiple first-year lectures. A current student joins you at the lectures and shows you around campus. Of course there is enough time to answer all your questions about the programme and studying in The Hague! Who can take part? The Student…

Young researchers have been particularly affected by the coronavirus measures. They’re concerned about whether they’ll get their PhD or postdoc project finished on time, now their research has been at a standstill for months. What effect will such a delay have at the start of their academic career?…

Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network

This Student for a Day event is full. You are warmly invited to the Experience Day on Saturday, November 9th. More information and the registration form can be found on this page. An overview of all available events for this program can be found here. During a Student for a Day event…

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This Student for a Day event is full. You are warmly invited to the Experience Day on Saturday, November 9th. More information and the registration form can be found on this page. An overview of all available events for this program can be found here. During a Student for a Day event…

In his dissertation Gabriel Paiuk explores the variable ways in which what is heard is formed. To address this, he postulates a novel concept of sound image in a post-anthropocentric context in which both mind and material artefacts are instances across which the image occurs, rather than hosts on which…

In Dutch society’s discussions about remembering the colonial past, voice is often used as a metaphor for empowerment ('we must raise our voices'), whereas silence is often used as voice’s negative counterpart, signifying a loss or lack of power ('we will no longer be silenced'). Yet, silence is expressive:…

During a Student for a Day event you will attend one or multiple first-year lectures. A current student joins you at the lectures and shows you around campus. Of course there is enough time to answer all your questions about the programme and studying in The Hague! Who can take part? The Student…

During a Student for a Day event you will attend one or multiple first-year lectures. A current student joins you at the lectures and shows you around campus. Of course there is enough time to answer all your questions about the programme and studying in The Hague! Who can take part? The Student…

While Asian Muslims comprise a majority of the global Muslim community both historically and today, Islam is not often thought of as an Asian religion or tradition. Asian Islam tends to be overlooked, excluded, or considered derivative of a supposedly normative and authentic Islam, defined as Middle…

On Saturday 13 May, an alumni event will take place for former students of the BA program South and Southeast Asian Studies/South and Southeast Asian Studies and all predecessors of this program (including Languages ​​and cultures of Indonesia, Languages ​​and cultures of India and Tibet, Indian and…

Do you want to find out if International Studies could be the right programme for you? Student Ambassadors Isa Lurling and Yonne Hofman will give a presentation about the programme’s set-up, its content and tell you what it is like to study in The Hague. At the end of the presentation there will be…

Do you want to find out if Urban Studies could be the right programme for you? Student Ambassador Mirko Petkovic will give a presentation about the programme’s set-up, its content and tell you what it is like to study in The Hague. At the end of the presentation there will be the opportunity to ask your…

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Leiden researchers Reinout Vriesendorp, Jessie Pool, and Harold Koster from the Department Corporate Law and Jan Adriaanse and Marc Broekema from the Department Business Studies are about to start a collaboration with Groningen University. The WODC (the knowledge centre in the field of the Dutch Ministry…

Not all students who are thinking of doing a master’s programme at Leiden University can come to the Master’s Open Day. Hence the first Webinar Week, from 2 to 5 December. ‘Online video is the way to reach today’s generation of prospective master’s students.’

Bachelor's students from all different disciplines came to the Master's Open Day to explore the options for their next programme. Some of them visited several different programmes and still have all their options open, while others wanted answers to very specific questions before making their final…

This Student for a Day event is full. You are warmly invited to the Experience Day on Saturday, November 9th. More information and the registration form can be found on this page. An overview of all available events for this program can be found here. During a Student for a Day event…

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On Thursday 6 May 2021, alumni of the Bachelor Security Studies (BaSS) and the Master Crisis and Security Management (CSM) were gathered in an online event arranged by the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the study association L.S.A. Custodia.

The short film Alma & Esperanza , directed by Itandehui Jansen, a PhD candidate (directing supervisor Professor Dr. Kitty Zijlmans) of the Leiden University Academy for Creative and Performing Arts, has been selected to the Short Film Corner of this year’s edition of the Cannes International Film Fe…

On Valentine’s day, the ELS lab @Leiden launched the ELS Atelier, where a group of scholars met to see if they could find their match with a particular empirical method.

Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film and Literary Studies degree actually offers a unique perspective on the problem. She is therefore one of the 20 students participating in this year’s…

Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk

Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk

Vivian van der Linde completed her masters Crisis & Security Management in the summer of 2020 by writing a thesis on Dieselgate. Freshly graduated, she felt she wanted to do more with her research. But how do you go about that, having just finished studying? Together with her thesis supervisor Wouter Jong…

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.

Dr Graça Machel will speak about her work and, together with researchers from Leiden University, the UN and the African Studies Centre, discuss and reflect on the theme of Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of planetary crises in Africa in a series of cross-disciplinary and reflective…

This cutting-edge textbook is a game-changer for undergraduate and postgraduate students, offering a fresh, hands-on approach to mastering the complexities of global security. With contributions from top experts, this text is packed with innovative features that bring theory to life and connect it directly…

In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.

Leiden University announced on 19 March 2020 that there would be no more face-to-face teaching for the rest of this academic year. That was a big decision with big consequences, but students in Leiden are staying positive and trying to make the best of it. Read on to be inspired by how Leiden students…

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields…