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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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Annual Review 2025
In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.
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From Leiden student and petrol station attendant to diplomat of the football world
As Secretary General of the Royal Dutch Football Association, Gijs de Jong travels the world. The career of this Leiden public administration graduate tells the story of a petrol station attendant who became one of the top diplomats in Dutch football.
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New Special Chair Bas Rietjens with focus on intelligence in conflict situations
Prof. dr. ir. Bas Rietjens of the Dutch Defense Academy (NLDA) has been appointed Professor by special appointment Intelligence in War and Conflict at Leiden University’s Institute for Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). The appointment of Rietjens is the result of a more intensive collaboration between…
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity
A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.
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Bleda Düring on the emergence of social inequalities
Bleda Düring was interviewed alongside researchers working on ancient religions and primates, for an article in the Swiss magazine bref on the emergence of social inequalities. Although perspectives on the rise of social inequalities differ between these researchers they all agree more research on how…
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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Study evening: 'Intelligence-Led Policing: Strategies, Challenges, and the Future'
Lecture
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Study evening: Technology and Police training: Forging the next generation of policing professionals?
Lecture
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Slice of 'Zeeuws' life: the complex stories behind human burials in Koudekerke
A team of three students affiliated with Leiden University is shedding new light on the lives, diets, health, and mobility of individuals buried at the historic church site in Koudekerke, Zeeland. The project, a collaboration with the Walcherse Archeologische Dienst and funded by the Municipality of…
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Archaeology student Anne Wagemakers wins LISF prize for report on research in Spain
With the help of a LUF grant, archaeology student Anne Wagemakers investigated an archaeological assemblage in Spain. Now her research report has won the annual LISF prize.
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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Anatomy of the EU tax list: a case-study on EU external tax policy
PhD defence
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Polarized Times: A Conversation with Omer Bartov
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Latin American Studies Program at Leiden
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Archaeology Inter-Section journal offers students the chance to publish: ‘I learned a lot during the process’
The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the unique chance to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. The new volume focuses on the materials that shape our world.
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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant
A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on how Europe developed after the fall of the Roman Empire with special attention to the yet underexplored but undoubtedly important…
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Project mapping Early-Medieval connections launches in Leiden
Having received a European Research Centre grant in 2025 the Connected Communities in Early Medieval Europe (COCO) project kicked off with a three-day long programme last month. From the 28th to the 30th of April the National Museum of Antiquities and the Faculty of Archaeology hosted the meetings bringing…
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Hoe kijken Nederlandse bedrijven naar online prijsdiscriminatie? Kimia Heidary, Bart Custers, Helen Pluut en Jean-Pierre van der Rest schreven
Hoe kijken Nederlandse bedrijven naar online prijsdiscriminatie? Kimia Heidary, Bart Custers, Helen Pluut en Jean-Pierre van der Rest schreven hier een artikel over.
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Tools for real-time study of bioorthogonal conversions in the living system
PhD defence
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Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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International Studies Earth Day lecture: 12 Habits to Solve the World’s Crises
Festival
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Retirement is not an option for ‘an old warhorse’ like Osinga
He has had to accept early retirement due to his military profession, or ‘FLO’ (Functioneel Leeftijdsontslag) as it is more commonly referred to within the Dutch Ministry of Defence, but the words ‘retirement’ or ‘winding down’ do not appear to be part of Frans Osinga's vocabulary. His appointment at…
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide
The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. This is according to ‘Keuzegids masters 2024’, a guide to master’s programmes in the Netherlands.
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Introducing: Andrew Gawthorpe
I am a Lecturer in Contemporary Military History and Security Studies, teaching in both the History and International Relations programmes here at Leiden. I grew up in Yorkshire, England and was interested in history and international politics from a young age. In 2003 I went to the University of Cambridge…
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MA Asian studies Graduate Student Conference: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Conference
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A Comparative Study of Cosmology and its Dynamics in Zhang Zai and Max Scheler
PhD defence
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The Metamorphosis of Change: A Study of Plato’s Theory of change
PhD defence
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Making Concentric Circles: The Performative Aspects of Sufi Devotional Practices and Modes of Constructing a Reality
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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COUNTERRR Project Launch & Roundtable Discussions: Current trends in the study of government and community responses to jihadi insurgencies in Africa
Roundtable
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Towards responsible and resilient mineral supply chains, with case studies on cobalt, antimony, and zinc
PhD defence
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Globalization of Waldorf Education; An Ethnographic Case Study from the Philippines
PhD defence
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Synthetic Affinity-Based Probes for ADP-Ribose Interactome Studies
PhD defence
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Evolvability and epistasis studied through the lens of an antibiotic resistance enzyme
PhD defence
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Substrates and inhibitors to study and modulate ER-I α-glucosidase activity
PhD defence
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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Approaches to Study Biologically Relevant Reactions: Examples from Amyloid Aggregation to Enzymes
PhD defence
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Miniaturized metabolomics methods for enabling the study of biomass- restricted samples
PhD defence
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Destroy, Create, Transform and Sublimate. Laboratory Dissociation Studies on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Analogues
PhD defence
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Design and Synthesis of Click Lipids as Tools to Study Immune Cell Metabolism
PhD defence
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Religious Coexistence in Health-seeking: An Ethnographic Study in a Pentecostal Hospital, Madina, Accra, Ghana
PhD defence
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Streaming the Sagas: a live role play in the North-European Age of Heroes
Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing against him. But where their legend still lives, their tale ended long ago... Let us begin a new saga, let us find new heroes, weave a new story - by the…
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Grant for workshop series on Ocean Governance
Dr. Vanessa Newby (ISGA) and Dr. Catherine Jones from St Andrews won a grant worth over €23.000 from the RSE Saltire Facilitation Network Award entitled: ‘Worse Things Happen at Sea’: The Governance & Security of the Ocean. The grant will comprise three workshops in 2022: one in Leiden, one in Edinburgh…
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars