On 21st June 2017, Yury Uraksin, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands, presented the Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terrible also known as the “Tsar Book” to Leiden University.

Professor Zaman is joined the Institute of Private Law in 2013 as a Professor of Notarial Company Law.

Danka Saija joined the Institute of Private Law and Notarial Law department as a part time lecturer in January 2023. Danka is a Partner and shareholder at Mazars N.V. and is an estate planner for Mazars Private Clients in The Hague, the Netherlands.

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Since 1 November 2024, Anouk Goemans has been appointed professor by special appointment of Youth services and child protection from a legal and developmental perspective. The chair is made possible Stichting Steunfonds Pro Juventute. Anouk works one day at the Department of Child Law and Health Law…

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is a Professor emeritus of English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Roos Stolker participates as a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title: 'Development perspective on shared urban heritage. Transformation of the Latin American city'.

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently issued a new collection policy plan, containing priorities for the coming years regarding the formation, management, availability, and use of the UBL collection.

Irma Mosquera Full Professor Tax Governance at Leiden Law School (Leiden University), the Netherlands.

Alistair Kefford is a historian and urbanist. He is a specialist in the development of cities and society in the modern era. His current research focuses on the rise of real estate development and its far-reaching impacts on cities and citizens all over the world. He is chair of Leiden's Urban Studies…

Leiden’s University Library provides access to a large collection of digital (contemporary) and digitized (historical) newspapers. These newspapers can be found through the library’s catalogue and through the library’s databases. Furthermore, the Dutch National Library offers access to several international…

The UBL holds seven collections recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. Six are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents or Memory of the World Register, one in the Dutch UNESCO register.

A guide for finding Korean newspapers, magazines, live TV broadcasts and audiovisual materials.

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". The works in the reading…

Senior lecturer Rick Honings has been appointed Scaliger professor with effect from 1 July 2020. In the coming years his focus will be on promoting teaching and research on the Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. Honings succeeds book historian Erik Kwakkel, who held this chair until…

Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy

On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoking towers are etched into the memories of many, not only in the United States, but all over the world. September 11 became the subject of much research,…

Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Ancient Near East Studies. Last update: October 2020

This Subject Guide will provide you with an overview of useful databases and online resources available within and outside the University Library. This subject guide is your starting point, aiding you in finding sources for any research field within the field of International Studies and International…