1,130 search results for “sociale citizenship and migration” in the Staff website
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Alex Geurds' first months as Dean: ‘It is important to be an organization without pain or scruples’
Since January 2026, Alex Geurds has been the new Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology. His start was calmer than many expected, but behind that calm lies a period of exploration, listening, and strategic forward thinking.
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How vulnerable is the Netherlands to an energy crisis?
The Iran war has pushed up fuel prices and raised concerns about a global energy shortage. How well prepared is the Netherlands? We asked two experts.
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘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.
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Humanities Hub opens: new digital facilities for researchers and students
The new Humanities Hub in the Huizinga Building was officially opened on Tuesday 3 December. In the different labs, researchers presented the options for using digital technologies in humanities research.
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From nanoscale to whole organism: at the Cell Observatory, researchers study life in detail
About forty microscopes, various laboratories, and some 15,000 zebrafish: that’s Sylvia le Dévédec's workplace. She is one of the managers of the Leiden Cell Observatory, a unique facility accessible to all researchers.
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De oceaan verandert sneller dan haar regels
8 juni is Wereld Oceaan Dag, en de VN roept op tot ‘Herbeelden’: een nieuwe relatie met de oceaan. Hoe werkt dat als de realiteit zo snel verandert? We vragen het universitair docent zeerecht Hilde Woker.
- Get to know the new assessment system Ans
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Agents of Change?
PhD defence
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LUC Global Challenge Fair: Game Night
Game night
- Leiden University College presents: Global Challenges Game Night
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Planet Formation through the Lens of Dynamics
PhD defence
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Share the LUVE
Festival, Graduation Film Festival
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Science for Policy in a Changing World Insights from Leiden University’s Europe Hub
Conference
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- Do Communities Build Monuments or Do Monuments Build Communities?
- Leiden City World Walks
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
- Global Questions Seminar
- Global Questions Seminar
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
- Global Questions Seminar
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Meijers Lecture and New Year’s Reception: starting the new year full of enthusiasm and inspiration!
In traditional style, 2025 was ushered in at our faculty with the Meijers Lecture followed by the New Year's Reception. On Thursday 16 January 2025, the Meijers Lecture took place in the Lorentz Lecture Hall where the Meijers Prizes and the Van Wersch Springplank Prize were also awarded. At the New…
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Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes
During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined the geographic origin of the animals. And guess what? In many cases they discovered exotic populations of animals that do not naturally belong in The Netherlands.…
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How can we banish racism from education?
A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrators, diversity officers, students and staff discussed urgently needed measures.
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Farewell lecture by Guus Heerma van Voss: ‘Labour rights have fallen from grace’
Guus Heerma van Voss, professor emeritus of labour law, delivered his farewell lecture on 18 October and held a mirror up to his colleagues and himself. Had they done enough to ensure the welfare state keeps up with the times? ‘Did we just stand by and watch?’
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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From the Spanish flu to Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis: 'Government intervention can have unexpected effects'
From the Spanish Flu during WWI to COVID-19: the role of the American government in these Pandemics. Professor Giles Scott-Smith, who together with Dario Fazzi and Gaetano Di Tommaso completed the book project Public Health and the American State, discusses a century of American responses to health…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.
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FGGA 's Follow-up Strategy Plan 2026–2030: How are things going? (Part 4)
As you know, the faculty is working on a new follow-up strategy with six themes. Each theme now has its own writing team. Every week we speak with one of these teams about their work, and share the highlights. On this page you can find the current article and an overview of all articles on the follow-up…
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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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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Polarized Times: A Conversation with Omer Bartov
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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LUCIR Talk: What Peace Science Teaches us About the Conflict(s) in Iran
Lecture
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Connect & Let's Combat Bias!
Webinar with Q&A
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Study evening: 'Intelligence-Led Policing: Strategies, Challenges, and the Future'
Lecture
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Just Peace Dialogue: Peace in Sudan
Just Peace Festival
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Best practices
On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.
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Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
Workshop
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[CANCELLED] Delicate Repertoires - Buddhist Creative Assimilation, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Delicate Repertoires- Buddhist Creativity, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2024-2025
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars
Lecture