614 search results for “physics violence” in the Student website
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What should the university do? Questions and emotions at university conversation on Israel-Palestine
Should we cut our ties with Israel or maintain them? The event ‘A university conversation on Israel/Palestine’ on 1 July revealed the depth of feeling about the conflict, with students and staff grappling with academic values and moral dilemmas.
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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This course brings opera into the classroom: ‘Many themes are still relevant today’
What can opera tell us about societies in the past and present? Leiden honours students went looking for an answer, together with students from the Dutch National Opera Academy. A final concert was, of course, part of the repertoire.
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Six questions about the book 'Ruminations' by Tahir Abbas
Tahir Abbas, Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, is organising a book launch for his new book: 'Ruminations: Framing a sense of self and coming to terms with the other'. The book launch will take place on Thursday 15 December from 16.00-17.00 hrs. at…
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Interview with alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Alumna Jolien Schukking has been working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since 2017. In this special role, she provides legal protection at an international level in major cases and concerning various topics. What is her job like and what motivates her?
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Ratna Saptari retires: anthropologist dedicated herself with heart and soul to Indonesian workers' and human rights
Ratna Saptari is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has always been involved with issues of human rights and Indonesian workers' rights. This August she retired. But she won't sit still. She continues her voluntary work and wants to…
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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A vision for the future of human rights and multilateralism
Lecture
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Narratives of Vulnerability
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Speeddating with master students
Study information, Speeddate evenement
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Film screening: The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace in Aceh
Film screening
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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CSPPR Lecture: The Power of ‘Unpolitics’
Lecture
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The Visuals of Empire
Lecture, The Visuals of Empire
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CADS Research Seminar Listening to the Un-speakable as Decolonial Praxis
Lecture
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Reporting Reality: Women’s Rights in India
Debate, Leiden Asia Academy
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Truces and Rumours of Truces: Hamas's Pragmatism as Expressed Through Its Ceasefires
Lecture
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A university conversation on Israel/Palestine
Debate
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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Why is the museum a topic in the current context?
Lecture
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PhD workshop: Epistemologies in PhD Research
Workshop
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Book launch: Roots of counterterrorism, Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence
Lecture, Book launch
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Booklaunch 'Security Studies: An Applied Introduction'
Lecture, Paneldiscussion
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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On the Abuse of Photographs by Kevin Lewis O’Neill
Lecture
- Doing Fieldwork with the Police: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
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Sarah de Lange, new professor of Dutch Politics: ‘We should not take our democratic constitutional state for granted’
‘Dutch politics are changing, but they also are characterised by stability; that tension fascinates me.’ Sarah de Lange studies, among other things, the Dutch party system, and specifically how the rise of extremist parties influences democracy. She will start as a professor in Leiden in mid-October…
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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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Defence Minister at Ukraine Symposium: 'We Europeans have only one chance to get this right'
Three years on, and interest in Ukraine certainly hasn't waned. The auditorium at the Wijnhaven location was fully booked on Monday. Hundreds of people, including top military brass, listened to Defence Minister Brekelmans' speech. He pointed out to them: 'Here in the Netherlands, we're now living in…
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Executive Board adopts committee’s recommendations on Israel-Palestine
The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and until further notice not to engage in any new exchange programmes with Israeli universities that have comparable links with the Israeli military (the…
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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you'
The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge their own paths and grow by trial and error.
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
m.e.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8546
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Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague: The International Criminal Court, the War on Drugs, and the Global Politics of Justice
Lecture, Roundtable Forum
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Narrative Democracy. Notes on the failure of Chile’s constitutional process
Lecture
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
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PREPARE Final Conference – Engaging with children from violent extremist families
Conference
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Live Q&A International Children's Rights
Study information
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War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
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Global Geopolitics with Trump: Two Months In
Lunch Seminar