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• Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij wins Florschütz Thesis Award News - 3 March 2022

  Annually, the Dutch Palynologische Kring invites nominations for the Florschütz Award for best MSc thesis in Palynology and Palaeobotany. This year, the thesis of Archaeology alumna Oda Nuij was deemed to be the best one. Oda was surprised to hear she won, since she was not sure that the thesis would…

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  Oda Nuij PhD candidate

  o.m.nuij@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ilse Kamerling Laboratory Assistant

  i.m.kamerling@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272394

• Does Lao Tzu Confuse Sein and Sollen? A Preliminary Reconstruction and Reinterpretation of the Concept of Tao in the Tao Te Ching Event - 4 June 2026

  Lecture

• The first LDE Professional Training Landscape Biography: a Retrospect News - 20 October 2021

  The first professional training organised by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development has finished. The participants work for municipalities, provinces, universities or are independent researchers or consultants in the Heritage Sector. During three intensive days in September…

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  Bernardo Antunes Postdoc

  b.antunes@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Dita Auzina Postdoc

  d.auzina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Roeland Emaus PhD candidate

  r.emaus@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Merel Brüning Guest Staff Member

  m.l.bruning@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 31646035639

• research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes News - 6 January 2022

  The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…

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  Paul Hudson Associate Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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

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  Joran Lammers PhD candidate/junior lecturer

  j.a.lammers@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina worked on long-term landscape MOOC: ‘Everyone can learn something new from this course’ News - 11 September 2023

  As part of the TerraNova project, a European research initiative on the study of landscape histories and futures, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) was developed. Anastasia Nikulina was one of the main chapter coordinators who worked on this course, and she worked on the part about modelling in landscape…

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  Stefan van der Vorm Assistant Professor

  s.van.der.vorm@chem.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274269

• Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts News - 22 January 2021

  December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…

• Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration News - 23 September 2022

  Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning, argue that in the current moment of major crises these ship channels necessitate radical reconsideration.

• Getting students away from screens... and into the landscape News - 30 June 2021

  Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…

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  Carina van den Hoven Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.van.den.hoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Starting grant for the investigation of the forgotten landscapes of World War II News - 25 May 2021

  PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on a research project focusing on the landscapes of the Second World War. ‘We will combine citizen science with deep learning to uncover traces of the c…

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  Arjan Louwen Assistant professor

  a.j.louwen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271968

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  Eduardo Herrera Malatesta Universal Lecturer

  e.n.herrera.malatesta@arch.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Adriaan Graas PhD Candidate / self funded

  a.b.m.graas@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274799

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  Bleda Düring Professor

  b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276449

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  Letty ten Harkel Assistant professor

  a.t.ten.harkel@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272631

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  Roberto Arciero PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  r.arciero.1@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Coring among sheep: investigating a pasture's past News - 24 August 2022

  It is late June, and on a windy meadow north of Leiden known as the Vrouw Vennepolder a group of archaeology students just hit the last ice age. Considering this involves manually pushing a ground core to a depth of 10 meters, this is no small feat. Even so, the taking of ground samples in this, at…

• Patterns of semantic change and reconstruction Event - 24 March 2026

  Lecture

• Painting summer landscapes Course

  Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

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  Jennifer Swerida Assistant professor

  j.l.swerida@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276048

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  Fan Lin University Lecturer Chinese Art and Material Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.lin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272538

• Early hunter-gatherers reshaped Europe’s ecosystems long before agriculture News - 22 October 2025

  In a new study published in PLOS One, Leiden archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina, together with an international team from France, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, challenges the long-held belief that early humans had minimal impact on their environment before the rise of farming.

• Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems Event - 19 December 2025

  Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

• Willows in the Dutch polder

  What will the Dutch polder landscape look like in the future? Ecologists and social scientists, in collaboration with farmers and citizens, are trying to answer this question in Polderlab VrouwVenne just outside of Leiden.

• Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder Event - 11 November 2025

  Lecture

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  Adam Benfer Postdoc

  a.k.benfer@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anna Scott Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.scott@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Patrizia Bovi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.bovi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius Event - 25 November 2025

  Middle East Studies Lecture

• Archaeological Project Sheds Light on Ancient Water Management in Udhruh News - 31 October 2024

  In 2011, the Udhruh Archaeological Project was launched, bringing together teams of Jordanian and Dutch archaeologists to investigate the region and reconstruct ancient water harvesting techniques in the extremely arid landscape of Udhruh. Access to fresh water remains one of the most pressing global…

• Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings Event - 12 December 2025

  Lecture, This Time for Africa series

• Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History Event - 10 February 2026

  Middle East Studies Lecture

• Women's Rights in the New Geopolitical Landscape Event - 14 March 2025

  International Women's Day 2025 - Seminar

• Neanderthal prey: elephant teeth preserve 125,000-year-old record of movement and diet News - 17 March 2026

  Fossil teeth can preserve remarkable information, much like a biological identity card with data about the lives of individuals tens of thousands of years ago. By analyzing teeth, a new study published in Science Advances reconstructed the life history of four straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon…

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  Mark Driessen Assistant professor

  m.j.driessen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271756

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  Peter de Knijff Professor

  p.de_knijff@lumc.nl | 071 5269537

• GeoArch Leiden Event
• Study trip Greek and Roman History 2026: Explore the Roman past of the Netherlands Event - 19 June 2026

  Festival, Study trip Greek and Roman History 2026

• Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire use News - 23 March 2026

  Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard University, where she will join a leading paleoecology laboratory.

• The Vanishing Chinese Pharmacies: The Current Landscape and Social Identity of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan Event - 3 December 2025

  Lecture, China Seminar

• Terrorism and Political Violence Lecture Series Event