810 search results for “sanskrit language and literature” in the Staff website
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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
a.raia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275283
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Liesbeth van VlietSocial & Behavioural Sciences
l.m.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Carolien RieffeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
crieffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3674
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Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture
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The Comics Canon - Graphic Novels at Leiden University Libraries
Graphic Novels and Comics have developed from pulp status to an entirely self-contained medium. This form of storytelling is not limited to stories of superheroes but has been used, molded and reshaped to display historical events, classic stories and autobiographical memoirs. But where should you begin…
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Healthcare interpreting today and tomorrow
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Social interaction meets technology
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
- Informal meeting: Langues & Grammaires du Monde dans l’Espace Francophone
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Ethnonyms as windows into the past: untangling past and present contacts in Ngamiland, Botswana
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Introducing: Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls
Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO-funded project 'Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence', led by Mirjam de Bruijn and Jelena Prokic (LUCL). Below they introduce themselves.
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Friend or foe? The role of AI in mitigating biases in HR
AI is already widely being used in HR processes, but it’s unclear whether these applications contribute to fair and inclusive decision making. Leiden researcher Carlotta Rigotti is involved in BIAS, a big consortium research project that aims to provide answers and develop a new, trustworthy AI app…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Daan Weggemans: 'Digital security is not just for specialists'
Within a single generation, the digital world has changed completely: from a technical niche for ‘nerds’ to a reality that affects everyone. Cyberattacks, data breaches and system failures can disrupt essential social processes. How can we ensure that our society remains digitally resilient?
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
- AI Mixer: Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Regional complementarity: Making sense of our four tiered justice paradigm
PhD defence
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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A grammar of Ashéninka
PhD defence
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
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).…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Why Humanities? Italian studies
Lecture
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Fixing the Outcomes of Transparency: Data Context and the Concentration of Explanatory Power.
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
- Fireside Peace Chats