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• Historical implications of argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré area Event - 27 May 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

• A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs Event - 13 May 2026

  Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People

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  Laura Llorente Rodriguez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  l.llorente.rodriguez@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275389

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.d.suchard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia Event - 29 May 2026

  Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

• Explaining typological universals from the perspective of language change: The diachronic emergence of alienability splits cross-linguistically Event - 8 May 2026

  Lecture, Language and the Human Past

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  Olga Lundysheva PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.lundysheva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre News - 22 July 2024

  The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.

• Adolescence: Sexual Becoming in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives News - 19 June 2025

  On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam — home to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) — hosted an interdisciplinary workshop organized by dr. Rafal Matuszewski, an ancient historian at the Institute for History in Leiden.

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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.putten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271583

• Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery News - 1 July 2024

  Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…

• Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities News - 11 June 2021

  Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…

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  Roos van Oosten Assistant professor / Director of education

  Faculty of Archaeology

  r.m.r.van.oosten@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272448

• Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database News - 25 November 2022

  What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’

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  Paul Hudson Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  p.f.hudson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009330

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  Pascale Eskes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.eskes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278525

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  Sasha Lubotsky Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.lubotsky@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ton Koopman Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.g.m.koopman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden News - 28 May 2021

  The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…

• Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems News - 27 June 2024

  The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes Müller has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the history of the Indonesian ecosystems.

• experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding' News - 25 November 2022

  What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wentz is trying to get closer to an answer to that question.

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  Jos Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.schaeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277772

• ‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn News - 17 November 2021

  Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations (LUCIR) is widely regarded as an expert on civil wars and conflicts. Her new book, Rebels and Conflict Escalation,…

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  Tinde van Andel Professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.r.van.andel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever' News - 15 November 2022

  Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.

• Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ News - 28 July 2022

  How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Debora Campos Wanderley

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  Evelien Walhout Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276412

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.schoubben@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272408

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  Tijmen Pronk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.c.pronk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273316

• awarded grant for workshop on adolescence and sexual maturity in historical and cross-cultural perspectives News - 28 May 2024

  When are you (sexually) mature? A KNAW grant will enable associate professor Rafal Matuszewski to organise an interdisciplinary workshop on this question.

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  Guus Kroonen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.kroonen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271251

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  Jan Wim Buisman Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.w.buisman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.m.tieken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.gunnink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274963

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.kloekhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277977

• Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum Event - 30 January 2026

  Conference

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  Gijsbert Rutten Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272112

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.grijzenhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271470

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  Jiang Wu Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.wu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274129

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  Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.j.r.zandamela@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272307

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  Michaël Peyrot Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274177

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.dadone@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278849

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  Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen Language Skills Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.g.van.beijeren.bergen.en.henego@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276509

• Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices Event - 16 April 2026

  Conference, Workshop

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272649

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.cabal.lopez@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.e.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272243