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1,082 search results for “early modern human” in the Staff website

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  Shiru Lim Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.lim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273030

• Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible' News - 27 February 2024

  Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…

• From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world Event - 6 April 2026

  Conference

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  Petr Koluch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.v.koluch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Rosanne van der Voet University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.van.der.voet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8002727

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  Jip Barreveld Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.barreveld@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ariadne Schmidt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.schmidt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272502

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  Michiel van Groesen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272765

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  Pablo Merayo Montes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• 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…

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  Rik Schalbroeck Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.schalbroeck@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272721

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  Wim Willems Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.h.willems@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• In early modern England, children were sold to the highest bidder: 'This was presented as a care system' News - 27 January 2026

  Children who lost their fathers in early modern England ran the risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Although Shakespeare wrote about it in his plays, the practice disappeared from collective memory for a long time. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers is bringing it back to light in a new Vidi research…

• Archaeologist Marie Soressi joins the discussion about the early use of bow-and-arrow technology in Europe News - 27 February 2023

  Nature News reported on the use of bow-and-arrow for hunting based on the research made on small points found in a 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France.

• Humanities Education Market Event - 1 November 2026

  Conference

• Language and the human past Event
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  Karwan Fatah-Black Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272666

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  Femke Lippok Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  f.e.lippok@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jelmar Hugen Postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.hugen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sophie van Romburgh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hans Janssen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.l.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Pim van der Helm PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.p.van.der.helm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Fernanda Korovsky Moura Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.k.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yasasmala Widyalankara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.a.d.widyalankara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wim van Anrooij Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.van.anrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities Event - 8 January 2025

  Conference

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272067

• Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year News - 19 December 2024

  Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books

• Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2026 Event - 10 June 2026

  Conference

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  Helen Steele Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.l.steele@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009937

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.rieger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271290

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  Clodagh Murphy PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China Event - 4 March 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

• Archaeologists come up with a more precise estimate for how long modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed News - 13 October 2022

  Modern humans and Neanderthals may have co-existed in France and Northern Spain for up to 2,900 years until the Neanderthals disappeared. This is what archaeologists from Leiden University and Cambridge University write in a new publication in Scientific Reports.

• Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones Responsible collaboration

  On 27 May 2025, the Executive Board decided to establish a Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones.

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  Aron van de Pol PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.van.de.pol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joanne Mouthaan Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.mouthaan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276781

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  Enes Sütütemiz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.h.sututemiz@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Holly Riach PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.a.riach@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wim Tigges Guest

  Student and Educational Support

  w.tigges@sea.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• High diversity in lifeways among early Caribbean inhabitants News - 26 May 2025

  The first settlers of the Caribbean have long been regarded as bands of highly mobile groups who subsisted exclusively by hunting, gathering, and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been increasing evidence for the cultivation of domesticated plants by early groups and a lower degree of mobility…

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  Jan Wim Buisman Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.w.buisman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Bertens University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154

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  Peter Liebregts Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.liebregts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272160

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  Bram Caers University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.j.m.caers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278010

• Dinko Fabris appointed professor: 'Music must live' News - 20 September 2022

  Musicologist Dinko Fabris has been appointed professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). He started on 1 September. 'I’m looking forward to making a connection with society.'

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
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  Alexander Verpoorte Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.verpoorte@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272927