Studium Generale is the platform of Leiden University where science is presented to a broad audience and HOVO offers lectures at university level for people aged fifty and older.

YAL now has its own lecture series! In collaboration with Studium Generale, YAL organises a lecture series called 'Young Academy Leiden'.

‘It has never been so easy to set up a Studium Generale series.’ With these words Tilman Grünewald thanked speaker Frank den Hollander, who kicked off the Studium Generale series on complex networks on Monday 20 February.

The Olympic Games will start in Brazil on 5 August. You can find out more about this fascinating but complex country in a series of lectures organised by Studium Generale.

Rafaëlle Kwakkel is currently studying Literary Studies: Literature in Society. In addition to her studies, she works at Studium Generale and enjoys being creative.

Knowledge is everywhere at Leiden University. It is also accessible for those who do not study or work at the University.

Christopher Green is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

Ab de Jong is Professor of Comparative Religion at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Xiao Luo doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Haneen Omari is a university lecturer (assistant professor) at the Institute for Area Studies.

Maghiel van Crevel is a professor of Chinese language and literature at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Francesca Rosati works from abroad. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Geoffrey Cain is PhD candidate at LIAS (Institute for Area Studies)

Crewe Williams is PhD candidate at LIAS.

Xiong Xiong is a PhD at the Institute for Area Studies.

As a Faculty of Humanities graduate you are part of a valuable network. Discover how you can remain in contact with other alumni and the University!

Caroline Fernandes Caromano is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

How many men and women die per year at the hands of others? What are the motives behind these killings? Are there as many homicides today as years ago? How can we explain the rise and fall of homicides over time? And: What is the influence of (early) childhood and adolescence on the likelihood to commit…

Prof. dr. A. (Arie) van der Kooij (Emeritus) is retired associated member of LUCSoR. He doesn't have a desk at the university anymore. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

YAL connects academics to society.

Hélène Nut doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Sarah Holma is a PhD Candidate within the LIAS. She has a double major in Asian Studies and Anthropology from UBC and an MA in Asian Pacific Policy Studies. She is interested in heritage politics in Southeast Asia, and how these politics affect a global understanding of the archaeological record in…

Irene Hadiprayitno is a University Lecturer at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. She is a political scientist and human rights scholar by training. Her research journey encompasses a wide variety of topics from investigating participatory development, political…

This book by Damien van Puyvelde provides the first comprehensive English-language account of France's modern foreign intelligence and explores its evolution, operations, and role in global security.

Jelle Bruning is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research interests include the social and literary history of the medieval Islamicate world. His current research projects focus on the history of slavery and the literary representation of sacred geography…

Maria Riep is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Yujing Tan is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies and International Studies. Yujing Tan doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Nathal Dessing is a scholar of religion whose research focuses on everyday lived Islam in Europe. She is the director of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS).

Guita Winkel is a guest at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Daný van Dam is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Shahab Daneshvar doesn't have a desk at the university. Please send an email if you want to contact her. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.

Mubarika Nugraheni is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the…