783 search results for “literary translational” in the Staff website
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Feeling overwhelmed by your PhD? This new infographic offers guidance
Providing and receiving feedback, meeting deadlines, and simultaneously considering your future: how to juggle all these tasks during a PhD project? The new 'PhD Golden Rules' offer advice on how PhD candidates and their supervisors can collaborate productively
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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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Judi Mesman on leaving LUC: ‘It’s been a wild ride’
A moment of reminiscence and to see what lies ahead. After having been Dean of Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) for six years, Judi Mesman takes the time to reflect.
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Timo Kos on the cuts and elections: ‘We’re fighting for the future of our university’
The university may seem a bit subdued in the run-up to the Dutch elections on 29 October. The media has barely mentioned education as an election issue, but behind the scenes the university is lobbying hard, says acting President of the Executive Board, Timo Kos. ‘We’re fighting for the future of our…
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Don’t take everything in a scientific journal at face value, students learn in this new module
In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Anouk van der Weiden, together with a team of colleagues and students, developed a module on critical reading, application, and writing. 'Students often think: who am I to criticise a published…
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Deans celebrate ten years Honours Academy: ‘We are educating people who can make a difference’
The Honours Academy celebrates its tenth anniversary. How did the institute develop over time, and what are aspirations for the future? We speak with the current Dean and a predecessor who was there at the Academy's founding. A conversation about identity, inspiration, and impact ensues. ‘It is about…
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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In memoriam: Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026)
On February 10, 2026, emeritus Professor Dr. Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026) passed away, one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University.
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FGGA 's Follow-up Strategy Plan 2026–2030: How are things going? (Part 4)
As you know, the faculty is working on a new follow-up strategy with six themes. Each theme now has its own writing team. Every week we speak with one of these teams about their work, and share the highlights. On this page you can find the current article and an overview of all articles on the follow-up…
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Aukje Nauta: 'Shame in the workplace can lead to stress, conflict and even burnout'
Aukje Nauta's professorship at Leiden University has been extended for another five years. She will further research how connectedness in the workplace helps people to be their full self and perform better. Her conviction: for a healthy work culture, we need to be willing to feel a bit more ashamed…
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Bridging the Gap Between Policy Makers and Academia
Career development
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Book Launch Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Tail Regeneration in the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
PhD defence
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Inspiration session art project [s]TATTOO
Share your ideas on social safety
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Can Neurodiversity be a Lens to Study Sufism?
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Night of the Lobbyist 2026
Evenement
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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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In Search of a Homo Economicus Javanicus. From J. H. Boeke to Clifford Geertz.
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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LINE Mini-symposium on Happiness & Enthusiasm
Lecture
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VIVAS by Angélica Cruz Aguilar
Orange the World 2025
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ReCNTR: My Want of You Partakes of Me
ReCNTR Film Screening
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Policy Academy Programme
Research
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Find a coach
Are you looking for a coach? If so, you’re welcome to contact one of the university’s internal or external coaches; you can do this directly yourself, after choosing a coach who seems suitable.
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Visualizing Multispecies Resistance: Pan-Amazonian Indigenous Perspectives
Lecture
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Latent Variable Modeling: Basic
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Daoism on the Irrelevance of Books
Lecture, China Seminar
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The Principles of Representative Government: Thirty Years Later
Lecture, Workshop
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The Cosmos Malabaricus programme: researching early modern Kerala through Dutch sources
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Course: Algorithms in Algebra
Course
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Explore! Career Opportunities Beyond Academia
Research, Communication
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Muslim Futures Festival
Arts and culture, Festival
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Digital Humanities Pilot Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure Symposium 2026
Symposium
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Modal phrase reduplication in Xiangzhou Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Crimmigrators
Lecture
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Iran at a Crossroads: Protest, Repression, and Europe’s Response
Debate
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Academic management and leadership skills
Leadership, Personal development, Management
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Martijn Kitzen has been appointed professor by Special Appointment of Military Science: 'It's time for Europe to make a stand.'
Martijn Kitzen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Military Science at ISGA on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Society for War Studies (KVBK).
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Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’
Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental health issues require the integration of statistical methods. ‘The idea that mental health problems are monocausal entities with simple etiologies is no…
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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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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty
2023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this year overview: we take you through the most important moments and news items month of each month.
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Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director Marrik Bellen talks about the turbulent times for this Leiden institute and its staff. And can we learn anything from the Indonesian approach?
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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professionals shared knowledge, gained inspiration and became acquainted or got to know each other even better at the third Leiden Research Support Conference…
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…