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• Materiality, Religion and the Environment Event - 19 March 2026

  Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop

• 
  Tycho van der Hoog Guest researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  t.a.van.der.hoog@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Mark Rutgers Chair of the Board ASCL

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.r.rutgers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0611719340

• 
  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• From chants to a voice: how young workers organised News - 13 April 2026

  ‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.

• 
  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

  m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Event
• Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’ News - 25 July 2022

  A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025 Event
• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025 Event
• Peace Histories Seminar Series 2025-2026 Event
• Ancient History Research Seminars 2025-2026 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024 Event
• Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025 Event
• Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality Event - 11 December 2025

  Lecture, Keynote

• 
  Gijs Dreijer Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Pablo Merayo Montes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.merayo.montes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Cigdem Billur-Ada

• European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025 Event - 26 March 2025

  Conference

• 
  Christiaan van Beek PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.h.van.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Felix Bosch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.r.bosch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Mahdis Mirzadeh PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.m.mirzadeh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Harold van der Kraan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.van.der.kraan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Rosanne Baars Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.baars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272720

• 
  Sil Douma PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.j.douma@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Richard Griffiths Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.t.griffiths@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009938

• 
  Felicia Rosu Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.rosu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274116

• Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’ News - 12 April 2022

  This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.

• Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities News - 19 June 2023

  What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.

• Development of Humanities Campus Construction projects

  Our aim with the Humanities Campus is to create a sustainable and attractive campus with ample green spaces and opportunities for interaction, complemented by modern and future-proof facilities. The campus is being developed in stages. On this page, you can find information about the planning, latest…

• Why have murals been used in social and political movements? News - 4 October 2022

  Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…

• Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos Event - 16 April 2026

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina News - 19 May 2022

  82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.

• Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery Event - 14 October 2025

  Lecture

• 
  Zane Kripe Lecturer

  z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Paul Smith Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Wil Roebroeks Professor emeritus

  j.w.m.roebroeks@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Corrie Bakels Emeritus professor

  c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 0715613845

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 7 February 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’ News - 18 March 2022

  How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event - 14 March 2025

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour Event - 21 May 2026

• Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain Event - 7 May 2025

  Lecture, CHEI Seminar

• Stephanie Noach wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize News - 16 July 2024

  Assistant professor Stephanie Noach has won the Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. She is receiving this prestigious prize for her research on darkness in contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Take a look at the new University Sports Centre News - 10 February 2026

  The doors of the new University Sports Centre are open to all students, staff and sports lovers. Want to see what it looks like? Watch the video and run through the centre with Zakari!

• Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes News - 5 December 2023

  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.

• History and change in Sign Language Phonology Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture

• ‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn News - 25 June 2021

  Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…