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• Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students News - 6 March 2018

  A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Leiden before and during the Second World War. Some of them were active in the Resistance, which cost a number of them their lives.

• ‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’ News - 11 May 2021

  How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.

• ‘War history of Eduard Meijers warrants place in memorial culture’ News - 28 November 2017

  A group of confidants including a former student of Meijers managed to avert his deportation to a death camp. In her lecture on 27 November, Cleveringa Professor Marjan Schwegman revealed the history of the persecution of the Jewish Professor Eduard Meijers.

• Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA) News - 5 December 2024

  In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.

• From sovereignty at sea to self-determination: the geopolitics of Greenland News - 22 January 2026

  Who holds rights to Greenland’s surrounding waters and natural resources? Which interests are at stake and for whose benefit? We put these questions to Hilde Woker, who specialises in the law of the sea in the Arctic.

• Disorienting Empire Event - 13 October 2025

  Conference, Workshop

• Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam News - 27 October 2021

  Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.

• Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy Event - 8 May 2025

  Conference, Symposium

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  Frans Willem Korsten Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.w.a.korsten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war News - 23 April 2018

  Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…

• War in the Middle East: What are the implications? News - 3 March 2026

  The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have been welcomed by critics of the regime but have also prompted intense concern. They’ve triggered a dangerous domino effect across the region and beyond. Leiden experts share their insights on the potential consequences.

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  Vincent Niochet PhD candidate

  v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mohammed Raiz Shaffique PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.r.shaffique@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jos Schaeken Interim Vice-dean / Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and cultural history

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.schaeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277772

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Gelijn Molier Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.molier@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277592

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  Christina Pasvanti Gkioka PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.pasvanti.gkioka@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Andrew Sorensen Postdoc/ Guest

  a.c.sorensen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272193

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  Nina van Capelleveen Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  n.u.van.capelleveen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277607

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  Carlotta Rigotti Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.rigotti@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Marie Schwed Shenker PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.schwed.shenker@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.bruning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271396

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  Thomas Fossen University Lecturer Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.fossen@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275244

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  Henning Lahmann Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  h.c.lahmann@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Gavin Robinson Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  g.l.robinson@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Chloe Gros Postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.n.gros@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joost Broekens Associate professor

  d.j.broekens@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277139

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  Arie-Jan Kwak Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.j.kwak@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278950

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  Nathal Dessing University Lecturer Anthropology of Religion

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.m.dessing@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271690

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  Victor Klinkenberg Guest Researcher

  m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jacqueline Vel Affliated researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tsolin Nalbantian Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272985

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  Karolina Pomorska Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.m.pomorska@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275180

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  Herman Siemens Senior University Lecturer History of Modern Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.siemens@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277040

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  Bruno Verbeek Senior University Lecturer Moral and Political Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.verbeek@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272030

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  Raymond Fagel University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.p.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272730

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  Bart Custers Professor of Law and Data Science

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.h.m.custers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Jos Gommans Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.l.gommans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272167

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273983

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  Gabrielle van den Berg Academic director LIAS / professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.r.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272023

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  Simone van der Hof Professor of Law and Digital Technologies

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.van.der.hof@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Kees Waaldijk Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.waaldijk@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Wil Roebroeks Professor emeritus

  j.w.m.roebroeks@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 'Language is part of your identity’ News - 17 March 2025

  Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’

• Niels van Willigen starts as Professor by Special Appointment in Strategic Studies News - 9 April 2026

  Starting April 2026, Niels van Willigen will join the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences as Professor by Special Appointment in Strategic Studies. This appointment was made possible by the Atlantische Commissie, which established this chair…

• Views on Africa News - 23 June 2017

  In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…

• Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics News - 3 September 2025

  Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.

• Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’ News - 14 October 2025

  His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy in the twentieth century. An NWO XS grant will enable him to make a start on this.

• Iran's future if the regime falls News - 4 March 2026

  According to Afshin Ellian, Professor of Jurisprudence, the new Iran starts with a referendum. In WNL’s ‘Goedemorgen Nederland’ programme, he says: ‘You’ll need to build a wall around Iran's constitutional future.’