Conference

ReCNTR invites students and staff for lunch with Deborah A. Thomas and John L. Jackson, Jr., this year’s Gerbrands Laureates to discuss how multimodal research practices help universities engage the public.

On Thursday 28 November, the next Psychology Connected will take place. A recurring event to which the entire Psychology Institute is invited to engage with each other, over drinks, in a conversation about a better university and society. What do those look like and how do we get there?

From 28 September 2023, the art of artist Kieran Smith will be on display on the 1st floor in the Pieter de la Court building. Kieran Smith grew up in South Africa and is a figurative painter with an interest in portraits and the human form. When he was studying Kieran was inspired by the bold, often…

Through court cases, fiction, and late-Qing newspaper accounts, Matthew Sommer considers a range of transgender experiences in Imperial China, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular contexts and penalized in others. People moved away from the gender…

Refresh your office and pick new art to hang on the wall! Or, donate your own art to our faculty collection, wouldn't it be nice to see your art in the building?

Middle East Studies Lecture

Lecture

Fancy getting the academic year off to a good start after a well-deserved holiday? Come to the open-air cinema in front of the Kamerlingh Onnes Building on 7 September! From 20.15 on, all law school students and staff are welcome to secure a seat. The film starts at 20.45 - when it is dark enough…

Science day

Join us for an informative and engaging Start Your PhD Meeting! Did you start your PhD? Our upcoming meeting is designed to provide you with not only essential guidelines and rules, but also a wealth of resources and connections to enhance your doctoral experience. Here's what you can look forward…

Conference

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the French Embassy in The Hague invite you to a Panel Discussion on 'Ethical Principles for International Criminal Judges' The "Ethica - The path to a common code of ethics for international criminal judges" project, inspired by the Paris Declaration…

Colonial and Global History of the Insitute for History is organizing a Masterclass "Unconventional Textual Sources" given by Dr. Emma Flatt on 7 December 2023.

Join us June 16 for Utopia from Within, a panel discussion on doing welfare differently. Scholars engaging with welfare experiments across the globe will discuss: How do welfare experiments in different cities reimagine relationships between state, society, and citizens? Do they perpetuate existing…

Medical anthropology is thriving in Indonesia and beyond, and anthropologists increasingly aim to contribute to pressing issues in society. How can anthropological insights most effectively contribute to addressing societal questions on health and care? The panelists in this roundtable draw on their…

Onderzoekers van het Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen en de afdeling Jeugdrecht gaan samenwerken in 2 nieuwe onderzoeken: onderzoek naar het terugplaatsingen van kinderen na uithuisplaatsing en draagmoederschappen in Nederland.

Each year, around forty women in the Netherlands lose their lives, most often at the hands of a (former) partner or family member. Judges, lawyers and survivors now turn directly to Professor Marieke Liem for expertise. For her, this is telling: ‘The time has come for greater knowledge and a coordinated…

A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.

When Dutch citizens request information under the Open Government Act (Woo), third parties can ask the public authority to withhold certain information. Leiden research reveals that the position of these third parties is unclear and accessing information is a difficult process.

Meijerslezing, Meijersprijzen en Van Wersch springplankprijs en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024

Once a year, former employee and avid runner Dennis Hoencamp returns to his old workplace. That’s when he competes in the Leiden Science Run. As an event coordinator, he once devised the relay race as an anniversary activity. It grew into an annual event for the entire University and the Bio Science…

Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.

Many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers are increasing. Psychologists from the Knowledge Center Anxiety & Stress (KAS) are developing and researching preventive training.

How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.

What started as pioneering work, has evolved over decades to become a renowned institute in 2025 with an internationally acclaimed master's programme. 'Almost everyone involved in the aviation and space sector knows us in Leiden.'

For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…

Education, ICT

Mojan Samadi obtained her PhD in 2020 in Leiden and has since remained at the university as an assistant professor. Her research currently focuses on gender and criminal law, with a key question being how criminal law should address femicide.

In the middle of doing research for her master’s thesis, Sara Kalf (24) was hit by a car and got seriously injured. After a long period of rehabilitation and hard work, this week she can finally add her signature to the wall of the Academy Building’s ‘Sweat Room’.

Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forward Party and banned him from politics. He now reflects publicly on the policy values that brought the party to prominence.

Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…

Career and apply for jobs

The Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’ will focus on a range of topics relevant to interactions between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) and the EU’s role within current patterns of global governance.

European Strategic Dialogue seminar series: Redefining the EU-Poland relationship: the implications of the Polish electoral shift

Symposium

Course, Inloopuur

PhD defence

Lecture, European Union Seminar

Lecture

To celebrate and recognize the crucial role of Open Science in the advancement of science, the Network of Open Science Communities in the Netherlands (OSC-NL) organises its first OSC-NL National Open Science Week from 23 to 27 September 2024. For a full overview of events and topics, please see…

Prof.dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden Prof.dr. J.F.J. Duindam Summary The dissertation explores the intricate relationship between family dynamics, legal practices, and the status of women in Ba County during nineteenth century (1803-1873). It delves into how family members leveraged the Great Qing Code and…

Psychology Connected is an event to which the entire Psychology Institute is invited to engage in conversation over drinks about a better university and society. What do those look like and how do we get there?

Traditionally, we welcome a special guest to join the Leiden community in celebrating International Human Rights Day on the 10thof December. This year’s anniversary is particularly significant as it coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year we are honoured…

CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita is a 12th-century court poem (mahākāvya) in 25 cantos (sargas) written by the poet Maṅkha in Kashmir. While the narrative ostensibly depicts the gestures of the god Śiva against the demons of Tripura, it primarily serves as a pretext for Maṅkha to showcase his poetic ability and…

Rachel Beckles Willson, Professor of Intercultural Performing Arts at ACPA in Leiden University and Codarts in Rotterdam, will launch her new book, The Oud: An Illustrated History, and perform a concert with guest artists Emine Bostancı and Nizar Rohana. The concert will present a wide range of styles…

Anyone who follows the news about Iran today can hardly imagine that relations between the West and Iran were excellent until 1979. Also The Netherlands had close ties with Iran. the Dutch royal family frequented the Iranian court and Dutch companies did good business in Iran. Iran, often called Persia…