Maarten van 't Riet is senior researcher at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and External Phd Candidate at Leiden University, department of Economics and department of Tax Law.

The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination with Fontys Tilburg and SAR– took place on 9th April, 2024 at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. The recordings are now online at whatmethodsdo.com.

A delegation from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is on a two-day visit to Leiden University. The aim is to explore opportunities for further collaboration and to exchange knowledge with this leading Chinese university.

Piet Emmer is Professor Emeritus in the History of European expansion and migration at the Leiden University Institute for History (chair from 1991 to 2009).

Ron Elkhuizen is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. Per 1 September 2024 he is appointed…

Jessie van Straaten is a PhD candidate in the Economic and Social History team of Leiden University. Specific interests include social history, health, medical history, family and care, and the history of children and old age. For her dissertation, she is conducting research on housing for older people…

Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe is a guest researcher at the Institute for History.

Dennis Worst is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Juliette Staüdt is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Patricia Kret is working on a PhD thesis on continuities and discontinuities in the use of Roman amulets (100 BCE – 600 CE).

Matthias Lukkes is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History, working on the project Revisiting the Invention of Africa, 1590-1720. His research focuses on Dutch imaginations of Africa in the long seventeenth century and how these shaped a shared European understanding of African alterity.

I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…

Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is Senior Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.

Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.

Lecture, Seminar

Several Dutch universities have said they do not want foreign student numbers to grow any more in some of their degree programmes. They are reaching maximum capacity. We are also alert to this in Leiden, but I see many positive aspects to the intake of international students.

On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.

In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.

Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

In our rapidly evolving and interconnected world, the study of International Relations has expanded beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. Leiden University’s MA in International Relations program (MAIR-Humanities), with its emphasis on humanities-oriented and multidisciplinary perspectives, contends…

In our rapidly evolving and interconnected world, the study of International Relations has expanded beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. Leiden University’s MA in International Relations program (MAIR - Humanities), with its emphasis on humanities-oriented and multidisciplinary perspectives,…

Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.