Lunch Seminar

If so, please join us for this lecture by Dario Fazzi — Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University. In his talk, Fazzi will explain how he uses techniques such as role playing and VR technology to teach ecological awareness to a global group of students. Following the…

Direct Aid (formerly Africa Muslims Agency), Kuwait’s largest charity focused on Africa, carefully mediates between Gulf donor wishes, aid recipient needs, Kuwaiti and African government regulations, and various development priorities. Since the 1980s, Direct Aid has been centralizing religious and…

PhD candidate Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science. In videos and blogs, she will show what life is like as a young researcher.

Networks of the future Networks are all around us. The roads that we use, the electric grid, our water supply, social networks, to name a few. But also communication networks like the world wide web and the mobile phones network. They form the backbone of our society, with more and more users and capabilities.…

Event

Evenement

The celebration marking the opening of the new academic year will focus on the role that science can (and perhaps should) play in shaping the gamut of policy from the local to the global. This question will be considered from many different perspectives: from both the purveyors (academics and students)…

The Rector Magnificus of the Executive Board, Hester Bijl, and the Chair of the University Council, Pauline Vincenten, will announce the results of the university elections on Friday 26 April at 14:15 hrs. at the Oude UB restaurant. Everyone is welcome to attend. Doors open at 14:00 hrs. Elections 2024…

We would like to invite you to the opening of the Faculty Year in the Hortus on Wednesday 4 September at 16.00 hrs. By now it has become a tradition to organise the opening of our Faculty Year in the Hortus botanicus. This year, too, we want to toast the new academic year and celebrate the wonderful,…

How do international laws protect children during armed conflicts, and how can education help rebuild societies after war? On 10 December, International Human Rights Day, and 100 years after the 1924 Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, join us for a panel discussion exploring these urgent…

Debate

This presentation will re-examine popular imagery of the Dutch during the Edo period, when Japanese commoners often referred to foreigners by the general term of tōjin (Tang or Chinese people) and to imports by tōbutsu (Tang or Chinese goods). Focusing on this fact, Keiko Suzuki previously argued that…

Course

Prof.dr. O. Kaper Prof.dr. T. Pommerening Summary This thesis explores ancient Egyptian descriptions of sicknesses of the inner body, the concepts used to understand them, and the trends in associated therapeutic applications for healing. It concludes that the ancient Egyptian system of understanding…

Elizabeth Hicks won first runner-up in the Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO) MA thesis 2021 competition at the end of January.

Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon Prof.dr.ir. H.H. de Iongh dr. H. Wels

Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. Jasper first wrote his column from Kuala Lumpur, and it was ready to share. Then a crisis arose this week that demanded…

On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…

The past few days we interviewed several of our researchers about their various studies during Dutch Bio Science Week. They answered questions such as what impact their research has on our future and with whom they have established valuable collaborations.

In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…

Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…

2025 was a year full of impact and milestones for FGGA: From a record number of graduates and new programmes to international collaborations, prestigious awards and research that pushes boundaries and provides insight into current challenges.

On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…

PhD defence

PhD defence

Central Asian landscapes and material repertoires are often interpreted in connection to concepts such as ‘Border Regions’, or ‘Silk Roads’. Almost everyone is familiar with the expansive steppes and fierce nomadic confederations, peripheral to and connecting the well-known empires of the ancient…

Reading group

Festival

The past two decades witnessed waves of diversified contexts of learning and teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, bringing the field to shores beyond the traditionally strong Oriental and Religious Studies. Teaching Arabic across Contexts explores the diverse methodologies and approaches to…

After a successful first conference in June 2022, GTGC is pleased to announce its second annual Conference at Leiden University's The Hague Campus on 7-9 June 2023.

Vince Dziekan (Monash University) and Ross Parry (University of Leicester) With introduction by Karin de Wild Museums exude an air of confidence. This edifice is more than an image projected via their imposing architecture expression and its enduring physical statement; it’s also represented…

Conference

Moot Court

Just Peace Festival

Are you interested in learning about educational subsidies for international cooperation and mobility schemes? Do you want to be inspired by exisiting internationalisation activities? Or simply want to know more about internationalisation at Humanities? Then register for the Onderwijsmiddag! Internationalisation…

Book launch and panel

Arts and culture

Prof.dr. M. van Kolfschoten dr. S. Bello (Natural History Museum, London)

Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Lecture

Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture

Welfare states embody a number of constitutive contradictions. They join notions of social rights with biopolitical concerns; they are there to help but also monitor and control. Welfare states are there for all citizens and residents, irrespective of background, but some groups are seen as more in…

Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century medical manuscript from Samarkand and more. Experience the richness and diversity of Leiden's Middle Eastern collections up close on Wednesday 25 September…

Laureates’ Ceremony

Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Start of the new year together with your colleagues and fellow students! On the 5th of September we will celebrate the opening of the new academic year together. All employees, students and alumni of the Faculty of Science are invited!