Thanks to deep learning, computer program AlphaZero plays better chess than the best person. The computer wins because it can predict further ahead than a human being through pattern recognition. Aske Plaat discusses this special development in Dutch newspaper NRC. He expects the major tech companies…

KOG, PDLC and Lipsius will soon be welcoming vegetarian cafés

Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the political situation in Russian.

Bike Labyrinth is international market leader in providing virtual reality exercising for elderly care.

If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in Leiden – and this is no coincidence. Watch the animation below about the development of one of the vaccines in the fight against COVID-19.

Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books

Historian Eric Storm discusses how nationalism shapes our world in Princeton’s UP Ideas podcast.

She considers herself lucky. She talks about the research projects she has ended up in and a network like the Young Academy Leiden (YAL). Van Duijvenvoorde talks about her recent incentive prize for young scientific talent, the Heineken Young Scientist Award. 'A lot of people I work with deserve the…

Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.

Research from weekly magazine Elsevier shows that both the Leiden bachelor Wiskunde as the master Mathematics are rated as the best educational programs of the Netherlands according to professors. The first place was achieved by up to 70% of the votes.

Between 16 May and 4 June our first ‘Introduction to Ancient Egypt’ course took place with a group of highly motivated students.

Martin Sievert, Assistant Professor Public Management at the Institute of Public Administration has been awarded the 'Best Young Researcher Paper Award 2023' of the Permanent Study Group Public Personnel Policies.

On 9 January 2020, Christa Tobler gave a presentation which was followed by a discussion, which was announced as follows:

The faculty introduction morning was held on Tuesday 31 August as part of the University’s OWL activities. Our new international exchange, master’s and advanced master’s students from more than 50 countries were welcomed to the faculty.

On Monday 28 March, Salina Ben Ali visited our University to tell her emotional story. She told about how her 19 year old son was recruited by IS, left for Syria and died there 'as a martyr'.

Important note: upon careful consideration, we have decided to resume our Dutch language courses.

In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.

Are you interested in working on your well-being, work-life balance or stress levels? Leiden Psychology students are offering a series of 5 individuals coaching sessions. The sessions are free of charge and confidentiality is guaranteed.

This year, Leiden Law School ranks #24 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the faculty ranks as the best in the Netherlands for the subject Law.

Are you a teacher (history, social studies, religion, philosophy, geography, etc.) and do you have questions about the relationship between citizenship and Islam? Consider joining NIMAR's study trip to Morocco.

On 28 August 2024, Lieke Beekers won the Young Economist Award 2024.

Willemijn Heeren has, together with dr. Lei He (Department of Linguistics, Tübingen & Center for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Zürich), received a research grant from the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics to start a pilot project on “Between-speaker variability in dynamic…

Have you heard about the book bus project (عربية الحواديت) in Sharqiya? This wonderful initiative encourages children, who don't have easy access to books, to read by spreading books by car. They are also setting up a library!

On 22 November Dutch Prime Minister Rutte met up with 400 Indonesian professionals, all of whom at some point studied in the Netherlands, during a young entrepreneurial and alumni reception at the Fairmont Hotel in Jakarta.

The Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) will organize its 11th annual conference from Thursday 30 June to July 2 2016 at Leiden University.

On Friday afternoon 22 April President Joko Widodo of Indonesia was welcomed at the gate of Leiden’s Academy Building by Indonesian students. Inside, the President and five ministers were welcomed by Rector Prof. Carel Stolker.

Resigning scientific director of the physics institute Eric Eliel has received the RISE prize for his outstanding commitment to increasing gender equality.

Marc Stevens, PhD student of Ronald Cramer, and colleagues have found a weak spot in internet security. As a consequence of this weak spot in the infrastructure of digital certificates forged certificates can be issued that can be fully trusted by the usual web browsers. The results have been presented…

An extraordinary encounter took place in 1911. American scientists discovered the last 'wild' Indian, from the Yahi tribe, who had lived in total isolation for years. As he had no name, they called him Ishi. But who was this man, and what did this discovery mean to us? Cultural anthropologist Erik Bähre…

Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor at eLaw Leiden, was invited as a speaker on two panels at the special CPDP Data Protection Day on 25 January in Brussels, an event co-organised by the European Data Protection Supervisor and the Council of Europe.

The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that the winner of the Common Market Law Review 2015 Young Academics Prize is Anna Wallerman, University of Gothenburg, for her article entitled: Towards an EU law doctrine on the exercise of discretion in national courts?

On Friday the 6th of May

Sufyan Al Karaimeh, a guest researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology, is currently involved in the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan (AAJ) Project. Over the past 25 years, the individuals involved in this project have not only compiled an expansive collection of photographs but have also helped discover…

Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. Talk That Science was founded a few months ago and has grown into a medium where science, music, young adults and scientists come together.

During this lunch seminar, Yanbin Ma, PhD candidate at Fudan University and GTGC guest researcher, presented on issue complexity, strategic construct and cooperation among international organisations.

Dr. Moritz Jesse, associate professor for European Union Law, spoke at the Nordic Migration Research Conference, which took place in Oslo in August 2016.

On the 28th of January 2019 Beryl ter Haar gave a guest lecture at Tbilisi State University organised by the European Law School Association (ELSA). The lecture addressed issues of EU fundamental rights, more particularly it was on the freedom to conduct a business versus several labour rights, among…

On 17 September 2018 Rijpma, Associate Professor of European Law at the Europa Institute, spoke at the European Academy for European Law’s annual conference on EU border management.

Professor Ann Skelton, Rotating Honorary Chair of Enforcement of Children's Rights 2020/2021 at the Department of Child Law, has been re-elected as member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Professor of International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, says we must block and expel Putin wherever possible.

On 6 October 2018 Maarten Aalbers presented the first findings of a research paper, he is currently co - writing with Dr. Ben Van Rompuy, at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.

Cambridge History of South Africa, volume 1: From early times to 1885 (edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross) made Choice magazine's list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010.

Mariana Gkliati participated on Saturday 2 June at ‘Europe on Trial'.

On Sunday 15 September 'ICM Weekendschool Den Haag' (ICM Weekend School The Hague) gathered at the Wijnhaven location for the first time.

Last week we organized an event together with the Green Office from the Bucerius Law School. We wondered: how realistic is UBI as an option to create a more sustainable society? More than 100 people signed-up to join us to find an answer to this question.

Rinus Verdonschot has been awarded a Canon Foundation Research Fellowschip to spend one year (2011-2012) ar Nagoya University, Japan.

200 years ago, in 1818, Caspar Reuvens was appointed Professor in Archaeology at Leiden University. This was effectively the start of the academic study of archaeology in the Netherlands. To celebrate this occasion, the faculty organises events related to the future of archaeology throughout the yea…

Leiden is easy to reach by public transport. The bus station is right in front of Leiden Central Station and there are many routes serving the city and the region. The Faculty of Humanities is a 10-minute walk from the train station. Alternatively you could take bus 1 or 3 from the train station and…

On 8 December 2015, Prof. Carsten Stahn gave a Pufendorf Research seminar at the University of Lund. He spoke on International Criminal Justice and Post-Colonial Critique, drawing on a chapter in a forthcoming volume on Contested Justice, published with Cambridge University Press.

The construction work on the South Cluster is going ahead throughout the summer. See the photo's and the video below!