1,085 search results for “history of space” in the Staff website
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained
In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections promise to be the most closely contested in years, with the opinion polls showing very small differences and everything at stake, including for Europe. Alp…
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of LGBTQIA+ child asylum-seekers
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955)
Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar
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Remko OffringaFaculty of Science
r.offringa@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5097
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Geographies of Repression and Resistance
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Allocation of the work areas of the Humanities Campus: Who goes where?
It was announced in December that a new draft urban development plan for the Humanities Campus is now ready. In drawing up this plan for the various buildings, outdoor space and traffic routes on campus, the facilities and layout of the buildings themselves were, of course, also considered. Discussions…
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PhD candidate Sinéad is a Europaeum Scholar: ‘There’s no other programme quite like this’
Sinéad Mulcahy recently started the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership course for a group of thirty talented and committed PhD candidates from universities across Europe. She is already enthusiastic – both about the programme and her fellow scholars. ‘I would like to bring…
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The world is changing. How should we as a university adjust our strategy?
At the halfway mark, how should we adjust our strategy to a rapidly changing world? Faculty administrators, academic directors, directors of expertise centres, staff from Administration and Central Services, members of the representative bodies and students assessors met on 6 June to discuss this qu…
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What if you lose a parent at a young age? ‘Grief lasts a lifetime’
Adults who lost a parent during childhood tend to experience greater attachment anxiety in romantic relationships, according to Carline van Heijningen’s doctoral research. However, this anxiety was less pronounced among those who recall having a strong bond with their deceased parent during childhoo…
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision
Lecture
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
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…
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Only the dead can tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Modern dance basics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Tours for staff: first look at the new University Sports Centre
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Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges
Lecture
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Ruben van UdenFaculty of Law
r.c.p.van.uden@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4992
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Johanna Berkheij-DolFaculty of Humanities
j.berkheij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
a.a.a.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8828
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2686
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Nora JulmiFaculty of Humanities
n.p.julmi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Eline Westra
Faculty of Humanities
e.westra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271293
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
f.p.lens@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Yann RyanFaculty of Humanities
y.c.ryan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7160
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Alexandra PrégentFaculty of Humanities
a.p.pregent@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
s.lammes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2754
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Alette VonkFaculty of Humanities
a.p.vonk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2746
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
n.asghari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Gabriel Veppo de Lima
Faculty of Humanities
g.veppo.de.lima@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Transformation and sublimation of interstellar ices: insights from laboratory experiments and astronomical observations
PhD defence
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Modern Contemporary intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Durable Upheaval: The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact Five Decades Later
Lecture, Studium Generale
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.