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• Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments News - 29 September 2025

  Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.

• Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons News - 28 November 2023

  From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’

• The US on the World: The Socio-Ecological Impacts of America’s Global Ascendancy Event - 8 September 2025

  Inaugural lecture

• International Studies Earth Day lecture: 12 Habits to Solve the World’s Crises Event - 22 April 2026

  Festival

• World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941 Event - 24 February 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’ News - 11 November 2021

  Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’

• Building academic freedom Event - 25 November 2025

  Debate

• Freedom: what does it mean? News - 3 May 2023

  On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.

• Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders' News - 24 September 2024

  To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.

• MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South News - 3 February 2026

  Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

• Educated Muslim Women in a Non-Muslim World: Navigating Identities in Sendai, Japan Event - 3 September 2025

  PhD defence

• Membership journalistic platform The Conversation Science communication

  Would you like to share your academic news with the world? Since 1 January 2024, Leiden University has been a partner of The Conversation, an international not-for-profit news platform that unlocks academic knowledge for a wide audience.

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  Sebastian Pomplun Associate professor

  s.j.pomplun@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274651

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  Serkan Aslan PhD candidate

  s.aslan@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275919

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  Tingjie Guo Assistant professor

  t.guo@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274501

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  Laura Zwep Assistant professor

  l.b.zwep@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Berdikhojayeva PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.berdikhojayeva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zahra Azhar PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Swantje Völler Assistant professor

  s.voller@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nicholas Kontovas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.d.kontovas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anita Liao Postdoc

  c.liao@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rob van Wijk Assistant professor

  r.c.van.wijk@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274505

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  Olivier Béquignon Assistant professor

  o.j.m.bequignon@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joey Zuijdervelt PhD candidate

  j.l.zuijdervelt@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276227

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  Catherijne Knibbe Professor

  c.knibbe@antoniusziekenhuis.nl | 071 5276329

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  Micha Drukker Professor

  m.drukker@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276271

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  Henk-Jan Guchelaar Professor

  h.j.guchelaar@lumc.nl | 071 5262790

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  Laura Heitman Professor

  l.h.heitman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274558

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  Adriaan IJzerman Professor emeritus

  ijzerman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Coen van Hasselt Professor

  coen.vanhasselt@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273266

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  Erik Danen Professor

  e.danen@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274486

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  Anne Por PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.s.por@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Irina Zudina PhD candidate / contract

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  i.zudina@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Bram Slütter Associate Professor

  b.a.slutter@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276208

• ‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’ News - 13 November 2024

  ‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…

• Stephan Raaijmakers: ‘Everyone within Humanities can contribute to the study of AI’ News - 3 September 2025

  Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by special appointment. How has his approach to AI changed in that time?

• Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850 Event - 10 December 2025

  Conference

• Leiden University publishes the titles of seven tainted scientific articles News - 18 May 2022

  In a supplementary decision on 17 May 2022, the Executive Board of Leiden University has concluded that it will publish the titles of seven articles in which there is evidence of malpractice. This concerns a former staff member of the Institute of Psychology. The Executive Board considers it to be in…

• Giant Robots, Big Ideas - Exploring the World of Mecha in Japanese Animation Event - 28 April 2026

• nationalism and the continuing significance of the national in an uncertain world Event - 5 March 2026

  Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network

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  Ruhama Yilma Abebe PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  r.y.abebe@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Carolien Jacobs Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.i.m.jacobs@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277517

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  Hoko Horii Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  h.horii@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Benthe van Delft PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.j.van.delft@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sam Botan PhD candidate

  s.a.botan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Klaassen Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.a.k.klaassen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277420

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  Igor Djakovic PhD candidate

  i.d.djakovic@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andreas Kinneging Professor Philosophy of Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.a.m.kinneging@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277654

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  Maurijn van der Zee Associate professor

  m.van.der.zee@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274885

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  Jenneke Evers External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.h.evers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838