Photographer and Visual Ethnography alumna Wilke Geurds captured special encounters during her travels. As an anthropologist, Wilke is always curious about other countries, people and cultural customs. That curiosity forms the core of her new photo exhibition, which can be seen during the Kunstroute…

This year Leiden will be celebrating the 450th Relief of Leiden. Leiden master’s students are researching this history as part of the ‘Traces of 3 October’ project.

The Dutch government has come up with a package of financial support to help businesses and the self-employed make it through the corona crisis. Economist Wimar Bolhuis sees it as a clear signal that the government is prepared to bear the brunt of the economic blow. ‘For the time being it has sufficient…

The aim of Leiden Islam Academy is to share the broad knowledge of Islam existing in Leiden University with various parties within society, and to bring people together. After three years of preparation, the launch meeting will take place on 7 December.

It was a memorable start to September. While Leiden marked the opening of the academic year, The Hague celebrated the launch of three new degree programmes. Students were welcomed on a blue carpet rolled out at the entrance to the lecture halls.

Circular agriculture and more nature are important to reduce harmful emissions and to give a new impetus to biodiversity. But is that compatible with the Netherlands' position as an important exporter of food products? Professor of Conservation Biology Geert de Snoo believes it is, at least provided…

The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.

Pre-University College The Hague is celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2024-2025. Three alumni look back on their experience. PRE broadened their academic horizons and taught them a lot about themselves. ‘PRE made me feel more comfortable at university'.

Law, sustainability and behaviour are heavily intertwined. Prof. Linda Steg, Professor of Environmental Psychology (RUG), will present an ELS lab about her research on the interaction between people and their environment. How does the environment influence people’s behavior and wellbeing,…

Did the Prague Jewish writer Franz Kafka live in a “diaspora”? Contemporaries of Kafka and some of our contemporaries today continue to use the word “diaspora” to talk about Jews who lived (and some who continue to live) in central and eastern Europe before, during and after Kafka’s lifetime. Yet…

Work in Progress Sessions involve presentations of work in progress. This can be at any stage of the research process, from the design to writing the actual paper. It is in particular a nice opportunity to receive feedback on empirical ideas and get suggestions on how to improve…

Lecture, LIMS seminar

Robert Menasse talks with NRC critic Michel Krielaars about his new EU novel “The Enlargement”.

15.00 – 15.30 - Introduction (SC01) Introduction by Anna van Duijvenvoorde, Coordinator MSc in Psychology (research) Q&A with Christel Klootwijk, Alumna MSc in Psychology (research) 15.30 – 15.45 - Honours Research Bachelor Projects (SC01) Introduction by Fenna Poletiek (Coordinator HRBP) …

'Wie is de baas in huis? Joodse families in laatantieke parabels' Dr. Albertina Oegema, Research Associate New Testament, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. For an abstract, please see the Dutch event page for this lecture. The livestream for this event will also be available on the Dutch event…

Lecture, Research Seminar

By 2050, more than 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. A group of International researchers has developed software that shows city planners where to invest in nature to improve people’s lives and save billions of dollars.

From virtual education to a friendly meeting place where refugees and Dutch students can get to know one another. Investing in refugees is in the interest of the whole of our society. This was the message of the students who opened the Academic Year of Leiden University on 5 September.

Dr Mike Field is the newly appointed Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories (Zoology, Human Osteology, and Botany). The new laboratories provide members of the Faculty with a first class infrastructure. “I see the laboratories as available for everyone to use.”

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has been badly affected by the corona crisis: the research in the four labs and the fieldwork has come to a standstill. What are the implications?

Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and university lecturers went on a fact-finding trip to Morocco accompanied by experts from NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Morocco). What did they learn from…

Gemeente Oss, Universiteit Leiden, Stichting Metaaltijdenonderzoek NL en Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed nodigen je uit in Oss. Het congres ‘Grootschalig Archeologisch Landschapsonderzoek – Verleden en Toekomst´ sluit het jubileumjaar ‘50 jaar Archeologie Oss’ af. Vijftig jaar geleden werd een…

Door Richard Jansen (docent Universiteit Leiden en voormalig gemeentearcheoloog Oss) en Mijke Peeters (gemeentearcheoloog Oss) Al vijf decennia lang doen Leidse archeologen onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van Oss. Oss speelt daarnaast een belangrijke rol in het onderwijs van Leidse archeologiestudenten.…

We warmly invite you to participate in a session of the Faculty Academia in Motion (FAiM) Roadshow, which will soon visit all institutes and the faculty office. During the roadshow, we will briefly explain the Academia in Motion framework and share practical examples. After that, we will primarily work…

Lecture, Book Roundtable

Conference

Study information

Below thesis archives will be moved shortly (work in progress) to the Leiden Repository. Once this is done, theses submitted by MI students (from 2008 onwards) can be accessed via the Repository and will be removed from this site.

Below are some of the scholarly works published within the context of the Institutions for Conflict Resolution programme.

This research project is funded by a subsidy from Instituut Gak.

Op vrijdag 7 juni om 15:30 vindt de boekpresentatie plaats van het boek Indische adel van Egbert Fortuin in de vorm van een symposium over Indische familiegeschiedenis. Inloop vanaf 15:00. Aanmelden verplicht. Na afloop van het event is er een borrel in de Brasserie van het Academiegebouw, waar u het…

Prof.dr. R. Cramer Prof.dr. S.O. Fehr Summary In analogie met wiskundige bewijzen, is het doel van een bewijssysteem dat een bewijzer een verificateur kan overtuigen van de juistheid van een bewering⁠. Probabilistische bewijzen laten het toe dat de verificateur fouten maakt, dat wil zeggen valse beweringen…

dr. H.E. Kan dr.ir. J.H. de Groot Prof.dr. A. Webb Summay Duchenne en Becker spierdystrofie (respectievelijk, DMD en BMD) worden gekarakteriseerd door het progressief verlies van spierfunctie. Deze progressie wordt zichtbaar in de vorm van de toename van vetweefsel in de spieren. Opvallend is dat dit…

Lecture

This conference is part of the NWO VIDI project: 'Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870'.

Prof.dr. A.C.M. Kroes dr. J.J.C. de Vries dr. I. Sidorov Summary Om alle virussen tegelijk te detecteren die zich in een patiëntenmonster bevinden, kan de metagenomische sequence test worden ingezet⁠. Bij deze test wordt het volledige metagenoom van een patiëntenmonster in kaart gebracht, door al het…

Conference

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy regularly publishes reviews of recent books within the field of diplomacy and global affairs, written in English, Spanish, French, or German.

Lecture, Workshop and Egeria Lecture

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series