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• Hora Hester Bijl! Farewell to a rector who steered the university through turbulent times News - 14 January 2026

  The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.

• Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ News - 19 April 2022

  During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.

• The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy Event - 4 June 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• All sixteen applicants for the Leiden Law School Starter Grants awarded research funding News - 30 March 2023

  Stefaan Van den Bogaert, Vice Dean of Leiden Law School was delighted to announce on 29 March 2023 that the faculty has awarded research funding to all applicants for starter grants.

• Students and employees celebrate 450th anniversary at sunny LAWLANDS News - 26 June 2025

  On 19 June, the grounds of the Kamerlingh Onnes Building were transformed into LAWLANDS! It had everything: sun, music, science, beach, games, quizzes and, above all, an enthusiastic audience of staff and students.

• JSVO teaching prizes for Maarten Kunst and Jonathan Huijts News - 7 September 2021

  The winners of the JSVO teaching prizes for academic year 2020-2021 were announced at the opening of the faculty year on 7 September 2021.

• Pitching Heritage News - 13 February 2025

  Do you want your research to fit the rubric of heritage? Is heritage a relevant concept here? These were some of the questions that came up in the lively discussion following twelve five-minute pitches given by Leiden researchers at the ‘Academic Open Mic’ workshop in the Lipsius building on Thursday…

• Six questions about the new minor ‘The (un)just society’ News - 12 March 2024

  The new minor ‘The (un)just society’ will start in September 2024. We asked Judi Mesman some questions about this new minor.

• Confidentiality clauses with penalty clauses should not be invoked when misconduct is reported News - 9 November 2022

  Confidentiality clauses that contain penalty clauses in television production contracts are common, permissible and useful, but can never be invoked against disclosing misconduct, such as unacceptable behaviour. This is claimed by Dirk Visser, Charlotte Vrendenbarg and Richard Trouborst in their article…

• OCW-survey on codetermination in higher education News - 22 March 2021

  The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has started a survey to identify the success factors of a strong codetermination culture within higher education institutes. All members of a codetermination council in higher education can participate in this survey until 2 April.

• Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’ News - 28 January 2025

  Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.

• Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power' News - 5 April 2023

  Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…

• Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism News - 22 April 2021

  In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’

• The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade Event - 7 February 2025

  Conference, Book presentation

• Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati Event - 9 September 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain Event - 19 February 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• Leiden Leadership Programme

  What does 'leadership' mean to you? In the Leiden Leadership Programme, you will find out. The LLP gives you tools to develop yourself personally, professionally and societally.

• Approval and application Law Exchange

  Approval and application

• Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor News - 8 December 2025

  PhD candidate Alex Tutwiler, from the Faculty of Archaeology, has received a grant from Archol, via the P.J.R. Modderman Foundation, to investigate how child labor shaped the bones of Dutch children between the 17th and 19th centuries. Using CT scans, she aims to build a more comprehensive picture of…

• Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news News - 22 March 2024

  LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".

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  Ruben van Uden Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  r.c.p.van.uden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274992

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  Maxine David University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.e.l.david@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274118

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277160

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  Helen Westgeest Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Felipe Colla De Amorim PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.colla.de.amorim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.von.ilsemann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Catherine Wood PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.wood@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277177

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  Pouwel van Schooten PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.s.van.schooten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271589

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  Alies Jansen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Daniel Schade Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.d.schade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272796

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  Angus Mol Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.a.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278828

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  Danny Jol Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  d.s.jol@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Kitty Zijlmans Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Peter Klinkhamer Professor

  Faculty of Science

  p.g.l.klinkhamer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sybille Lammes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.lammes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272754

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  Ton van Haaften Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.van.haaften@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arthur Crucq University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276275

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  Andrea Warnecke Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.u.warnecke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272679

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  Sarah Nelson Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.nelson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271268

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982

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  Robert Zwijnenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wouter Wagemakers Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505

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  Karen Smith University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271737

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  Klaas Vrieling Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  k.vrieling@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Frederic Lens Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  f.p.lens@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michael Newton University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.newton@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272165

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  Laura Bertens University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154

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  Anastasia Nikulina Postdoc

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.nikulina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Saskia Rademaker PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.rademaker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8001646

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  Robbert Striekwold External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.striekwold@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727