With ongoing protests across Iran, many are asking whether the regime is on the brink of collapse. Three Leiden experts share their perspectives.

Markus Davidsen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.

Esther Zwinkels is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

My research focuses on science and innovation and in particular the interface between them, integrating various disciplinary perspectives, such as public policy, sociology, economics, and psychology.

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Tim is Assistent Professor at the department of Business Studies. His research focuses on the (business) economics fundamentals, especially the theory of the firm and the co-evolution of companies and markets in complexity economics.

A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.

Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…

Tsolin Nalbantian (MA NYU, 2003; PhD Columbia, 2011) is an Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History. She focuses on diasporas, minorities, and the modern political and social history of Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus.

Alumni event, Lustrum

André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

Conference

Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones,…

Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor Film, Literary and Media Studies at Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Sofia de Jong was appointed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Company Law, part of the Institute of Private Law, in November 2023. Her empirical legal research focuses on the effectiveness of Dutch company law as an instrument for influencing behaviour to achieve sustainability goals.

Dr. Peter van der Zwan is an associate professor at the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics (2007) and PhD in Economics (2011) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined the department in 2017.

Patrick Degryse is a guest staff member at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, as well as full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Annemieke Verbaas is an education and research staff member at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Linda Breeman’s research focuses on promoting health behaviour and lifestyle changes, specializing in (eHealth) intervention development and intervention implementation in complex systems.

Eduardo Alves Vieira is an Assistant Professor of Portuguese Language and Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He teaches at the BA/MA Latin American Studies programs and BA International Studies. Additionally, he supervises Ph.D. candidates, mostly working on queer linguisti…

Damian Alan Pargas is Professor of the History and Culture of North America at Leiden University and executive director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg. He is mainly specialized in the history of slavery and its aftermath.

Maarten van Leeuwen is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in the domains of (linguistic) stylistics, argumentation theory and rhetoric.