Egbert Fortuin is Professor Russian Language and Linguistics.

Douglas L. Berger is, since 2017, Professor of Global and Comparative Philosophy and the Director of the Centre for Intercultural Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Ivo Smits is a professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

As a sociolinguist, I am interested in how people use language in daily situations to achieve a variety of goals. As people do this, two things become immediately obvious. First, people routinely mean more than their words mean, so we always need to read between the lines of each other's (spoken or…

Tessa Verhoef is Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). She leads the Emergent Communication Group and co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL). Her research is highly interdisciplinary and lies at the intersection of language, cognition, cultural evolution…

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Casper Wits is a University Lecturer in the Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on postwar diplomatic and international history in East Asia, with a special interest in the development of Chinese and Japanse foreign policy and Sino-Japanese relations in this period. He also takes an interest…

Lecture

Start thinking in advance about the selection for long-term preservation.

Leiden University offers various facilities to ensure your daily activities on campus run as smoothly as possible. Here you will find practical information about amenities in and around the buildings, as well as answers to questions such as: Where can I park and how do I apply for a subscription? How…

Leiden University supports you with a modern and secure digital working environment. Here you will find all information about the available facilities and systems, as well as answers to questions such as: How do I install software? How do I secure my account? And which tools are available for my research…

Leiden University provides staff with a modern ICT environment to carry out their work efficiently and securely. Here you will find more information regarding technical support, manuals, and contact persons, as well as answers to questions such as: Where can I report an ICT issue? How do I install software…

Conference, Workshop

A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large number of co-authors in a bold attempt to expand and deepen how democracy is studied and understood. Among…

“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…

When and how to use the concept of “culture” . To medical anthropologists this is a core question, but also a challenging one.

Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture

The new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC) are Pablo Pandocchi, Benjamin Maldonado, Emily Berube-Palsboll and Nico Lesenfants Ramos.

Doing research in archaeology is more than just gathering data and publishing a paper. Nowadays, there is a growing trend in producing well-defined and responsible data management plans. They help to navigate the process and result in good data management practices which in return benefit the researchers…

Boya Li is a researcher and lecturer at the unit of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. Her research focuses on promoting social inclusion and equality for children with autism and other neurological conditions.

PhD defence

Conference, Workshop

Diversity and inclusion are core values for Leiden University, and our aim is to offer all staff and students equal opportunities. As the University lacks adequate information about the cultural diversity of our staff, this spring we are taking part for the first time in the Cultural Diversity Barometer.…

The Annual Report of Leiden University reports on its teaching, research, innovation, knowledge valorisation, infrastructure, staff and finances. It is the cornerstone of the planning and control process, and is a detailed financial statement on the policy that has been enacted.

With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.