LUCIS Meets… Ouassima Laabich, project lead of Berlin-based Superrr Lab, who researches Muslim youth and empowerment through an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on critical futures thinking, digitalization, archiving, and the arts. Laabich has worked particularly on Muslim Futures, a decolonial…

Conference, Workshop

Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium

Lecture, Book talk

Screening documentary

This conference brings together students, officials, practitioners, and scholars to rethink sanctions, focusing on the future of sanctions scholarship and practice.

The Vereniging 'Vrienden van het Instituut Kern' is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Dr. Dmitry Komissarov, (Gonda Fellow at the IIAS), entitled "The dohada Motif in Ancient Biographies of the Buddha".

Lecture, Workshop

PhD defence

The talk seeks to explore how the parliamentary discourse may evolve in a situation of revolutionary fluctuations and structural discontinuities, focusing on the representative assemblies established in the Netherlands and on the lands of the erstwhile Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the post-Napoleonic…

Central Asian landscapes and material repertoires are often interpreted in connection to concepts such as ‘Border Regions’, or ‘Silk Roads’. Almost everyone is familiar with the expansive steppes and fierce nomadic confederations, peripheral to and connecting the well-known empires of the ancient…

In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.

Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…

Registration is not necessary. For more information, feel free to send an email to o.spijkers@luc.leidenuniv.nl. The lecture is part of the courses on Global Security and Collective Action and Sovereignty and Statehood. All other interested persons, including all LUC students and staff, are cordially…

OSINT for Ukraine will mark its second anniversary in 2024 and is eager to commemorate the occasion by hosting an engaging event/symposium. Our aim is to foster a collaborative environment where experts and enthusiasts can converge to delve into the nuances of OSINT, open source information, and the…

In the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the West has been asking what it got wrong in relations with Russia after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. To help us understand where we are today, Professor Archie Brown will look back at the Cold War and the role of leadership in bringing…

Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war continues to cause extreme civilian harm and military casualties and has changed Ukrainian society to the core. During a one-day symposium Dutch, Ukrainian and international expert will discuss the impact of the war.

On Friday, June 28, 2024, emeritus professor Rudy B. Andeweg passed away. His passing marks the loss of an important figure within the field of political science, not only nationally, but internationally. Here we remember an outstanding researcher, inspiring teacher, capable administrator and an involved…

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experiencing group pressure.

On 5 May, we celebrate the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and the fact that we have been able to live in freedom ever since. But what does freedom mean, and how does it relate to our safety? Various FGGA experts draw connections with their own fields of expertise.

When Russia attacked Ukraine in the night of 23-24 February, alumnus Joost Bunk, who was working as a diplomat in Russia, knew that everything would change.

In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…

Summer is approaching fast and this means that you have almost completed your first year here at LUC! This also means that it is almost time to declare your Major. As this is an important decision between six interesting Majors. The deadline for the Major Declaration is May 10. We wish you good…

Just Peace Festival

Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25

The theme of the celebration of Leiden University's 449th Dies Natalis is curiosity: the inquisitive behaviour that is at the basis of all science and that also engages and moves us forward in our daily existence.

The Interdisciplinary Research Group Museums, Collections and Society (MCS) will organize a conference about four topics that are at the core of the group’s research activities. Together with national and international colleagues we will discuss issues and problems in our fields of expertise. Save the…