In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…

Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…

2025 was a year full of impact and milestones for FGGA: From a record number of graduates and new programmes to international collaborations, prestigious awards and research that pushes boundaries and provides insight into current challenges.

Orange the World 2025

Workshops

Discussing Supervision in Higher Education can be a challenge as much as a fundamental process to understand and be adequate to the new profile of students and a more globalized world. Come to be part of this week, entirely dedicated to understanding, collectively, different types and models of supervision,…

If you can relax properly, you will be less likely to take sick leave, will concentrate better at work and will reduce the risk of long-term absence. However, a high workload can make it difficult to relax and avoid becoming stressed. Leiden University would like to help you with this! The 2023 Work…

Just Peace Festival

Conference

Since ancient times, humans have lived and even prospered in the arid regions of South Arabia, where the pre-eminent factor limiting life is water. What kinds of strategies did people in the past use in order to deal with the scarce water resources? How did they interact with a natural environment that…

Book launch and panel

Alumni event

Leiden Science’s monthly dose of research inspiration from our staff, for our staff and all other curious minds. On Tuesday 10 December, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Professor Efficient Computing and eScience, will give an interesting lecture!

Workshops

Arts and culture

Women in International Security Netherlands (WIIS NL) is pleased to invite you to their event on Thursday the 25th of May focusing on the Dutch Caribbean.

For centuries, enslaved individuals were trafficked to Yemen – mostly from the Horn of Africa across the Red Sea – and forced to support local societies through their labor. As Ḥusayn al-ʿAmrī's pioneering scholarship and my recent studies have highlighted, their contributions in medieval…

Building on my recent book The New Atlantic Order, and challenging long dominant conceptions of a “short” 20th century, this talk seeks to cast fresh light on how the modern global order actually came to be recast so radically. To this end, it will present a new conceptual framework and trace fundamental…

During the talk, the book will be introduced by the editors, Dr. Megha Amrith, Dr. Victoria K. Sakti and Dr. Dora Sampaio, and two of the volume’s contributing authors, Dr. Alfonso Otaegui and Dr. Harmandeep Gill.

Conference

The Greek diasporic queer Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. On December 9th, a symposium around his work will take place at Leiden University Libraries. This will be combined with the launch of Maria Boletsi's book Specters…

The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) is happening on 12 June 2023! Ticket are not availalbe anymore, we are sold out.

In 2024, an estimated 2 billion people will go to the polls in elections around the world, in what has been called the ‘biggest elections megacycle so far this century’. This serves as a reminder that democracy is globally still one of the most prominent political systems, but also one that is under…

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.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2024, we will celebrate a special milestone: the 40th anniversary of the Public Administration programme at Leiden University! During this Anniversary Day, we will reflect on the past and look ahead in the company of prominent speakers, alumni, students, and (former) staff…

The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the second season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of…

This year’s Healthy University Week runs from 23 to 27 October and we’re offering a wide variety of free workshops, group classes and inspiration sessions, designed to help us create a healthy living environment.

The celebration marking the opening of the new academic year will focus on the role that science can (and perhaps should) play in shaping the gamut of policy from the local to the global. This question will be considered from many different perspectives: from both the purveyors (academics and students)…

Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…

We would like to invite you to the second instalment of the Leiden Teachers’ Academy Education Festival 2023 at ECC Leiden. This year’s theme is: Future-proof education: A new vision of the future of higher education in a changing world. Higher education is at a crossroads. Today’s students must…

Festival

Lecture, Studium Generale

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…