This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.

Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.

Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…

Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous Prof.dr. F.K. Ameka dr. V.A.S. Nyst Summary The thesis explores Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL), the national sign language of Ghana within urban deaf communities. Using historical, linguistic and ideological data, the research discovered GSL is a cover term for various signing…

Lecture, Global Questions Seminar

INVISIHIST event with Steven L. B. Jensen

Sri Lanka has a complex layered history of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonialism. Historians, anthropologists, writers and heritage specialists are concerned how to narrate this past and question how it speaks to the present. During this event a team of Sri Lankan and Dutch researchers will present…

Lecture, LUCIS Keynote

The deep history of humanity is not one thing, it is many. In a great number of societies past and present change is not driven by what we now see as economic forces, such as food and craft production, or the history of institutions: rather people are moved and shaped by issues of cosmology and questions…

The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.

Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…

After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…

The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.

A guest lecture by Claire Edington, Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California - San Diego, USA. This lecture takes place in the IIAS conference room from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (not online). Everyone is welcome to attend. Please register so that we may know how…

It is mid-July and as I sit in my office in the Herta Mohr building, I notice how quiet it is around campus. Yet, this is in direct contrast with a flurry of activity by LUCSoR colleagues and students in recent weeks. I highlight just a few examples here.

If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around, you’ll have a chance to take part next year. Save the dates for the last week of January 2026!

Colonial and Global History of the Insitute for History is organizing a Masterclass "Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942" given by Marin Kuijt on October 16 2024.

Fish and other forms of aquatic life have shaped human life since prehistoric times, and aquatic animals have not only provided food but also been a source of fascination and wonder for people all over the world. The Leiden research project A New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in…

Lecture

53rd Huizinga Lecture On Thursday, December 12, 2024, historian and terrorism expert Beatrice de Graaf will deliver the 53rd Huizinga Lecture at the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden. Under the title "We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis," De Graaf will explore how history is used during crises to give…

From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’

As museums, archives and other cultural institutions make their colonial collections available online—giving contested materials a digital afterlife—unresolved histories and new ethical matters are bound to emerge. What can be traced, remembered and imagined through archives rife with omission and harm?…

Unequal land distribution is a key topic in Kenyan historiography. Less is currently known about how water came to be such a scarce resource. This project problematises the idea that water scarcity is an environmental phenomenon: rather it is the product of a dissonance between human expectations and…