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• Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati Event - 9 September 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Largest radio survey ever maps the Universe in unprecedented detail News - 19 February 2026

  The radio telescope LOFAR, with a major contribution from Leiden Observatory, has produced the most detailed radio map of the Universe ever made. Never before have so many cosmic radio sources been captured in a single survey: 13.7 million.

• Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain Event - 19 February 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

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  Maxine David University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.e.l.david@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274118

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277160

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  Helen Westgeest Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Catherine Wood PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.wood@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277177

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  Daniel Schade Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.d.schade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272796

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  Andrea Warnecke Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.u.warnecke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272679

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  Sarah Nelson Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.nelson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271268

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982

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  Robert Zwijnenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yunnan Ye

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  Angus Mol Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.a.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278828

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  Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.von.ilsemann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Onur Ada PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009927

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  Felipe Colla De Amorim PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.colla.de.amorim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Ugur Derin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  u.derin@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 Klinkhamer Professor

  p.g.l.klinkhamer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kitty Zijlmans Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Sybille Lammes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.lammes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272754

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  Ton van Haaften Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.van.haaften@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• The Principles of Representative Government: Thirty Years Later Event - 20 February 2025

  Lecture, Workshop

• Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? News - 24 October 2024

  In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…

• Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies? Event - 7 November 2025

  Lecture, Conversation

• Can the Qing subaltern speak? Exploring Tibetan and Mongol history through the use of sub-provincial Chinese language archival sources Event - 15 May 2025

  Lecture, China Seminar

• What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War? News - 4 May 2023

  Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…

• Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained News - 8 May 2023

  In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections promise to be the most closely contested in years, with the opinion polls showing very small differences and everything at stake, including for Europe. Alp…

• The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of LGBTQIA+ child asylum-seekers Event - 2 April 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955) Event - 7 April 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar

• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022 Event
• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022 Event
• The world is changing. How should we as a university adjust our strategy? News - 1 July 2025

  At the halfway mark, how should we adjust our strategy to a rapidly changing world? Faculty administrators, academic directors, directors of expertise centres, staff from Administration and Central Services, members of the representative bodies and students assessors met on 6 June to discuss this qu…

• Allocation of the work areas of the Humanities Campus: Who goes where? News - 31 January 2023

  It was announced in December that a new draft urban development plan for the Humanities Campus is now ready. In drawing up this plan for the various buildings, outdoor space and traffic routes on campus, the facilities and layout of the buildings themselves were, of course, also considered. Discussions…

• PhD candidate Sinéad is a Europaeum Scholar: ‘There’s no other programme quite like this’ News - 4 June 2024

  Sinéad Mulcahy recently started the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership course for a group of thirty talented and committed PhD candidates from universities across Europe. She is already enthusiastic – both about the programme and her fellow scholars. ‘I would like to bring…

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  Gilles van Wezel Professor

  g.wezel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274310

• Tours for staff: first look at the new University Sports Centre Event - 28 October 2025

• Tours for staff: first look at the new University Sports Centre Event - 25 November 2025

• Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges Event - 20 March 2025

  Lecture

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Eelco van der Maat Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.van.der.maat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271739

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  Masoud Kiani External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.kiani@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aris Politopoulos Assistant professor

  a.politopoulos@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jacqueline Vel Affliated researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ksenia Fedorova University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.fedorova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272952

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  Sarah Wolff Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.wolff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272698

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  Anne Gerritsen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Blade Runner 2025? Event - 9 October 2025

  Lecture, Studium Generale

• Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' News - 16 March 2023

  When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.