930 search results for “history interior” in the Staff website
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The Principles of Representative Government: Thirty Years Later
Lecture, Workshop
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Can the Qing subaltern speak? Exploring Tibetan and Mongol history through the use of sub-provincial Chinese language archival sources
Lecture, China Seminar
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Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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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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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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The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of LGBTQIA+ child asylum-seekers
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Materiality, Religion and the Environment
Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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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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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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Kress Talks with Juliet Huang and Christine Quach
Lecture
- Humanities Campus Information Market
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European Union Seminar with Kajsa Ollongren
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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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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From working from home to hybrid working: slowly towards the new normal
Overnight, working from home became the ‘new normal’ for most Leiden University’s employees. And now, just as abruptly, we are heading back to the office. ‘But it will be different than before, we expect that most of the employees will continue to work from home for one or more days a week.’ Niels Laurens,…
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Luris turns 20: ‘Our research drives real-world impact and innovations’
It’s been exactly 20 years since Luris first began working with Leiden’s researchers and students to create an impact on society. To celebrate this anniversary, staff look back on their most memorable projects. Spoiler: they all had difficulty choosing one single project.
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies
“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter of the world trade, it is where the youngest populations lives, with an enormous amount of creative energy, something that is often lacking in the northern…
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Book Launch: Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
Book Launch
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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’
Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa Lecture as planned on 26 November. She reflected on the protest and the importance of open debate, within the university and within a democracy.
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges
Lecture
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
k.fedorova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272952
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sarah WolffFaculty of Humanities
s.wolff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272698
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
g.n.t.j.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Wil RoebroeksFaculty of Archaeology
j.w.m.roebroeks@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Corrie BakelsFaculty of Archaeology
c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272393
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
e.van.der.maat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271739
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
m.kiani@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
j.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272147
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271692
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculty of Archaeology
a.politopoulos@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zane Kripe
Faculty of Science
z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
k.a.milne@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272978
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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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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Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Toward an AI Attuned to Dissent and Consensus in Historical Events: Evidence from Wikipedia
Lecture
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Wet felting workshop: design your own case or bag
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure