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• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  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.

• Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right News - 8 August 2022

  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.

• Pitfalls and opportunities – A wealth of learning about fair partnerships Between Leiden and Africa News - 2 April 2025

  A whole week was dedicated to fair partnerships and equitable exchange in Leiden-African education and research

• Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’ News - 25 June 2024

  Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…

• Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages News - 6 October 2025

  What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…

• Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member News - 17 November 2023

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

• Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona News - 2 July 2021

  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…

• Fossil Urbanism: Global Forces, Local Contexts, and Urban Environmental History Event - 20 May 2025

  Lecture, Global Questions Seminar

• Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim News - 15 April 2021

  Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!

• Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History Event - 8 February 2024

  Lecture, INVISIHIST event

• Towards a Virtual Slave Island/Kompannavidiya Heritage, history and spatial contestation in Colombo (Sri Lanka) Event - 5 June 2024

  Lecture, Event

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  Heino van Rijnberk PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.van.rijnberk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.w.reichgelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272063

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  Rong Yuan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.yuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Catherine Wood PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.wood@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277177

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  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.amadou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Vera Scepanovic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.scepanovic@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272342

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  Matthew Sung PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

• A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog News - 22 November 2021

  The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Inspired by Verwey’s poem ‘De zegger van verzen’, Krog’s lecture was a polyphonic and multilingual love letter to poetry.

• Martijn Nouwen on Wopke Hoekstra’s investment in safari enterprise that escaped taxation in Africa News - 1 February 2022

  The Pandora Papers turned the spotlight on Wopke Hoekstra’s investment in an African safari company via a tax haven. Apparently, there was no tax evasion, but that does not seem to be the whole story. Martijn Nouwen, assistant professor in tax law, explains in Follow the Money how the safari enterprise…

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  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.a.nyssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Leonardo Arias Alvis Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.arias.alvis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Xuan Dong PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.dong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Carmen Kurpershoek PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.kurpershoek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Seraina Renz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.renz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tony van der Togt Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.m.van.der.togt@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Marcin Rabiza External PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.rabiza@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Dimitris Kastritis External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.kastritis@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Koen van der Lijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.m.van.der.lijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272241

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  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.coxeter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646

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  Li-Fan Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.f.lee@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ghulam Ali Murtaza PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.a.murtaza@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Peter Postma PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  p.postma@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Judith Leferink External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.n.m.leferink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Athanasios Stathopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.stathopoulos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009441

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  Robertus Benning PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.c.j.p.benning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Saskia Cohen-Willner

• Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History Event - 13 November 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS Keynote

• Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity Event - 27 November 2024

  Keynote Lecture

• Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate News - 5 April 2016

  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.

• PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish? News - 30 September 2021

  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…

• ‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance News - 22 August 2022

  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.

• Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam Event - 10 April 2024

  Lecture

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  Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.j.r.zandamela@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272307

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  Nikki Mulder Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.mulder@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276243

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  Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.k.krakowska.rodrigues@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271806

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  Ton Dietz Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.j.dietz@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Claartje Levelt Scientific Director / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103

• Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942 Event - 16 October 2024

  Lecture, COGLOSS lecture

• A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880) Event - 27 March 2024

  Environmental Humanities LU Talk