136 search results for “personen manuscripts” in the Staff website
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research.
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CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop within the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers' on 26 and 27 March 2026 at Leiden University.
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Online Book Salon Elizabeth Stuart – with Nadine Akkerman
On Thursday 2 December, Nadine Akkerman, Reader in early modern English literature will be a guest in the online book salon of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Head Curator Garrelt Verhoeven will interview Akkerman about her book Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts. In her biography, Akkerman describes…
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius
Middle East Studies Lecture
- SSEALS - 2025
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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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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Book Publishing for Junior Scholars 2025
Conference, Workshop
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Tracing the Early History of Yoga
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Worship without Image: Gaurī in her aniconic Pañcapiṇḍī form
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Unfolding unopened letters based on X-ray tomography
Lecture
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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Controlling Cosmopolitans: Mobility, Property, and Interpolity Law in the Dutch Atlantic
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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“Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935
Lecture
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Mathematical Instruments and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China
Lecture, China Seminar
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Doctoral Performance Anna Bianco
PhD defence, Performance
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professionals shared knowledge, gained inspiration and became acquainted or got to know each other even better at the third Leiden Research Support Conference…
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Annual Review 2025
In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.
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The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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The Meaning of Mandarin Repetition Adverb chóngxīn ‘again’
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Ontology of Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Daoist Practice
Lecture, China Seminar
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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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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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival