According to New York Magazine, the massive open online course (MOOC) ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ by Professor by Special Appointment Giles Scott-Smith is one of the best online courses. We asked him why you should take the course and how it came about.

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In his recent article, Sankaran Krishna asks: how does IR address the glaring fact of inequality across nation-states? His answer is: through a discourse of meritocracy. IR theories construct world politics as a meritocratic space, where inequalities are reflections of innate differences in merit of…

Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar

In collaboration with Defence for Children, Leiden University’s Department of Child Law will hold the 12th Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award ceremony on Friday 13 December from 14.00 onwards. The prize will be awarded for the best master’s thesis in the field of children’s rights. From the…

The category of the Islamic modernist has pervaded identity politics throughout the Muslim world for the last century. Normally, Islamic modernists are understood to be influenced — often quite consciously so — by the epistemic norms of western modernity that enforce rational coherence and display,…

Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon Summary In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important. moreover,…

Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce a talk by Marco Piasentier and Antonio Cimino.

Conference, 2-day Workshop

Central Asian landscapes and material repertoires are often interpreted in connection to concepts such as ‘Border Regions’, or ‘Silk Roads’. Almost everyone is familiar with the expansive steppes and fierce nomadic confederations, peripheral to and connecting the well-known empires of the ancient…

Ching Chao-jung 慶昭蓉 In 73 AD, Ban Chao 班超 seized the Hami oasis during a battle against the Northern Xiongnu and “liberated” Shanshan and Yutian 于闐 (Khotan) from the control of the Xiongnu. He then continued to conquer Shule 疏勒 (Kashgar) which had just become a puppet state of the kingdom of Qiuci 龜茲…

Lecture, VVIK lecture

Violence between individuals (“interpersonal violence”) such as homicide or assault, is a high-priority issue for the general public, for policy makers, and for academics. While “violence” has an intuitive meaning for many, academic perspectives on the nature of violence vary considerably. In this Lorentz…

On this page you will find all information about the Bachelor of Security Studies that you need as a first-year student.

Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”

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Ghazwan Yaghi was a leading archaeologist and researcher in Damascus but had to flee in 2014 because of the war. An NWO 'Refugees in Science' grant has enabled him to pick up where he left off in his academic career. 'I've found myself again in this project.'

One million migrant workers are employed in the Netherlands, often in poor conditions. If we want to reduce labour migration, we need to restructure the economy, says economist Olaf van Vliet. Either way, we need to address abuses, says FNV lawyer Imke van Gardingen.

Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…

A Leiden and Mainz (Germany) based team studies the activities of early humans in a 125,000 years old Last Interglacial ecosystem, formerly exposed in a large open cast brown coal pit near Halle (Germany). The Last Interglacial is an important warm-temperate period, showing the full flora and fauna…

Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights Outstanding Student Research Theses

A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country and to extend and expand existing partnerships. Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker is confident enough already to call it a success.

Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.

Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanities projects will receive the funding.

Early Islamic Ifrīqiya is often depicted as a bastion of Maliki Sunnism, whose jurists presented a united opposition to the Shi’ism of the Fatimid rulers in the 4th/10th century. This talk will argue that this homogeneity is largely a later construction and that the religious discourse of 2nd/8th and…

Lecture

Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk

Lecture

In this blog, Jorg Kustermans asks the question whether diplomatic gifts matter - a subject covered in the latest HJD Forum on gift giving in diplomacy.

The world around us is changing. What does that mean for the future of Europe, on this turbulent world stage? And what does it mean for our teaching, and for the expectations that Leiden University has of its students? These were the key questions during the opening of the 2018-2019 academic year on…

In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.

Climate change is a hot topic and constantly in the news. Thousands of Dutch high school students protested at the Malieveld in The Hague. News website Nu.nl has barred climate change deniers from their comments section to prevent ‘fake news’. How does climate change impact the research community, and…

This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…