1,376 search results for “arts” in the Staff website
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘A lot is expected of students nowadays’
How can staff help create a healthy and inclusive learning environment? How do today’s students differ from previous generations? And what does this mean for how we guide and support them? These questions were the focus of the ‘Today’s Students’ symposium on 25 March.
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Meet the Student workgroup D&I Student Wellbeing
On Monday 14 November 2022, our faculty student workgroup Diversity & Inclusion + Student Wellbeing will start working. The workgroup consists of seven motivated student assistants under supervision of the Faculty Coordinator Susanne Deen will get started on making the topics diversity & inclusion and…
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn
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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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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Confidence is the byword for Director of Research Lotte van Dillen
Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the Executive Board of new-style Institute Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good intentions, we’re going to do great.’ If you lack confidence, you’re not the kind of person to jump on your bike and go off to Sicily. Want to find out more about…
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‘Jasper is the dean Leiden Science needs’
Two deans: one leaving and one just arriving. Paul Wouters was deputising at the Faculty from March up to December. As of January he returns to his 'ordinary' role as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Jasper Knoester is taking over from him, as he will be leaving Groningen for Leiden. How did…
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten.
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Departing vice-dean Mirjam de Baar: ‘Straight away I found Leiden's Faculty of Humanities a fantastic environment to work in'
After nine years, Mirjam de Baar is leaving as vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities. ‘It will take some getting used to letting go of this vice-deanship because the education portfolio is very close to my heart and I’ve worked hard for it in recent years in close cooperation with many colleagues.’
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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Introducing: Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls
Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO-funded project 'Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence', led by Mirjam de Bruijn and Jelena Prokic (LUCL). Below they introduce themselves.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Mid-term review: An open discussion about strategy for the legal programmes
On Wednesday 19 January 2022, the online mid-term review of the legal programmes took place on the platform Let’s Get Digital. It was an interactive afternoon in which 130 participants openly and critically discussed the educational strategy for the legal programmes and the faculty.
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Paying the Dues: Black Documentary Film and the Quest for Truth
PhD defence
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
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Tracing the Early History of Yoga
Lecture, VVIK lecture
- Workshop: Other forms of embodying knowledge
- Workshop: Other forms of embodying knowledge
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Gerbrands Lecture – Keywords: Conspiracy, Race, Love
Lecture, Gerbrands Lecture
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Tap dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Learning Unkown Intervention Targets in Structural Causal Models
Lecture
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Musical (Singing/dance/theater) | Intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Tap Dance beginners
Arts and leisure
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Introductory course music software: create your own track
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 1: Comparative perspectives on campaigning, polarisation, and political violence
Debate
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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After Work Conversations
Symposium
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Free your voice!
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'Tempori serviendum est: Cicero’s public voice under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar'
Lecture
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Caribbean Ties. Connected people, then and now
Exhibition
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Musical (singing/dance/theater) | beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Singing Basics
Arts and leisure
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K-pop intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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K-pop beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Summer tours
Arts and culture
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Theatre (acting) & Improvisation
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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K-pop beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference