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• Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’ News - 2 May 2022

  For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).

• How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’ News - 24 April 2025

  In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.

• Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia News - 9 November 2021

  The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.

• Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' News - 18 May 2021

  On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…

• Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship News - 22 January 2021

  Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.

• Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness' Event - 10 February 2025

  Lecture, Book Roundtable

• 16 Years: From Wrongful Conviction to Justice - The Story of Jeffrey Deskovic Event - 19 June 2026

  Film screening

• The State of the Earth: Estimating Physical Parameters from Noisy and Incomplete Earth Observation Data Event - 23 June 2026

  PhD defence

• From Models to Mechanisms: Defects and Charge Trapping in Amorphous Silicon Nitride Event - 2 July 2026

  PhD defence

• The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War News - 28 April 2025

  In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?

• Meet Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, LJSA Member News - 20 November 2023

  Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…

• Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’ News - 27 November 2024

  The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture.

• How gas conflicts between Ukraine and Russia were the precursor to war News - 19 November 2024

  The war between Ukraine and Russia is playing out not just on the battlefield but also on the geopolitical playing field of gas. Conflicts at the start of this century about this energy source were, says PhD candidate Ilia Barboutev, a precursor to today’s war.

• Contemporary Art History and Theory in a Global Perspective - Joint Art Talk by Matthew Rampley and Vera Wolff Event - 7 May 2026

  Alumni event, Arts and Culture

• Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD News - 3 June 2025

  A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.

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

  Middle East Studies Lecture

• Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman News - 26 June 2025

  Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’

• Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in Standard Chinese: Evidence from L1 Speakers and L2 Learners Event - 8 July 2026

  PhD defence

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982

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  Esther van Ginneken Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.f.j.c.van.ginneken@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272827

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  Tazuko van Berkel Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.a.van.berkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272674

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  Willemijn Waal Senior university lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.waal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Harry Buckoke PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.e.buckoke@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mike Preuss Associate professor

  m.preuss@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sigrid van Wingerden Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.g.c.van.wingerden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278588

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  Roxanne Kieltyka Associate professor

  r.e.kieltyka@chem.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274441

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  Anthony Brown Associate professor

  brown@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275884

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  Joni Reef Associate professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.reef@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278596

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  Sergei Boeke Guest employee

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  s.boeke@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Elena Raponi Assistant professor

  e.raponi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Frits Rosendaal Professor

  f.r.rosendaal@lumc.nl | 071 5264037

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  Adam Cohen Professor

  a.f.cohen@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Rint Sybesma Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.p.e.sybesma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272529

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  Henk-Jan Guchelaar Professor

  h.j.guchelaar@lumc.nl | 071 5262790

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  David Henley Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.e.f.henley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272226

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  Maghiel van Crevel Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.crevel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272211

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  Jonathan Silk Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.a.silk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272510

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  Nadine Akkerman Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272065

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  Ben Arps Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.arps@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272222

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  Bernhard Brandl Professor

  brandl@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275830

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  Michaël Peyrot Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Akos Kovács Professor

  a.t.kovacs@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274384

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  Dennis Claessen Professor

  d.claessen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275052

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  Ferry Ossendorp Professor emeritus

  f.a.ossendorp@lumc.nl | 071 5263800

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  Simon Portegies Zwart Professor

  spz@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278429

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  Marcel Tijsterman Professor

  m.tijsterman@lumc.nl | 071 5269111

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  Frank Pieke Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jeroen ten Voorde Scientific Director/Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.m.ten.voorde@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278928

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  Luc Amkreutz