Mike Schmidli recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in American History. He introduces himself.

In 2025, Leiden University College (LUC) celebrates its 15th anniversary with the theme 'Global challenges, local impact'. To kick off this anniversary year, we have shared fifteen stories over the past few weeks showcasing how LUC students, researchers, and alumni contribute to societal challenges…

Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.

eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, participated in the Horizon Europe BIAS Project international co-creational workshop geared towards discussing fairness of AI applications in the hiring process and ALTAI requirements.

Can kindness training increase political tolerance? And how can we better support children with selective mutism? During the Health@FSW knowledge market and exchange event on 26 May 2025, researchers from all five institutes showcased how their work aligns with the faculty’s research strategy and contributes…

Waarom is empirisch-juridisch onderzoek van belang voor de rechtspraktijk en het wetenschappelijke onderzoek? Op die vraag kregen masterstudenten van de afstudeerrichtingen civiel recht, ondernemingsrecht en financieel recht antwoord tijdens het congres over empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht…

A healthy and happy society. This is what researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences are working towards, together with a selection of partners from different disciplines and regions. To further structure research about Health and Well-being, the faculty has identified three focus area’s. Researchers…

Janine Ubink is Professor of Law, Governance and Development at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, of Leiden University.

Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.

Interest groups seem to be going to court more often to force politicians to act. How often do they do so? And how successful are they? The Kiem project ‘Litigation in the name of public interest’ is compiling a database on this.

During an inspiring meeting at the Health Campus The Hague on 2 April, Jan Anthonie Bruijn and Jet Bussemaker reflected on their experiences in politics and looked ahead to the future of Dutch healthcare.

Olaf Kaper is a professor of Egyptology at Leiden University, specialized in the New Kingdom to Greek and Roman Periods. An expert in the fields of Egyptian religion, iconography and cultural history, he furthermore excavates in the Dakhleh Oasis.

Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

The city of Leiden is enriched by a dense infrastructure of knowledge institutes, with a uniquely strong focus on health and well-being. This gives Leiden "an extremely good starting position to become the healthiest city in the Netherlands," according to Fleur Spijker (Alderman for Economy, Knowledge,…

Vicky Alcalde is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Sander Bax is a professor at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Paulina Lucas is lecturer at International Studies.

Sini Hassinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University Centre for the arts in Society. She has a background is in anthropology and African studies. Her research combines cultural analysis, decolonial and queer approaches, and participatory research methods.

Sophie van Romburgh is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ifdal El Saket is assistant-director (Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies) at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. Ifdal received her PhD in history and Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia, where she worked on the history of cinema in Egypt, 1897-1952.…

Dong Xia is a postdoctoral researcher in New Media and Digital Culture at Leiden University. They have backgrounds in literary studies and cultural studies. They currently work on a project researching 'the chronic' as a descriptor of temporal experience in the digital age.

Gerda Danielsson-Coe is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.