1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps.

Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.

Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.

This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…

Many of our staff and students have won an award, received a grant, obtained an academic fellowship for their quality or have been socially engaged due to their specific expertise. See below for an overview per year.

Dutch Studies is a unique bachelor’s programme in which you will quickly acquire fluency in spoken and written Dutch at a high academic level, while also gaining a deep understanding of the culture and history of the Netherlands.

From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…

The research group Corporate Governance and Strategy investigates how, with whom and for whom a firm/corporation creates/captures value, in order to inform practice and rule makers about governance issues. By focusing on the dual character of the firm as an entity by itself but also consisting of stakeholders,…

The CNaVT exam is the official, international exam of Dutch as a Foreign Language for all who learn Dutch all over the world. The Catholic University of Leuven organizes the exam. The Dutch Language Union has commissioned this collaboration.

Jasper de Bruin, Guus Besuijen, Hans Siemons & Jeroen van Zoolingen (2012). De romeinse nederzetting bij het tegenwoordige Goedereede heeft waarschijnlijk een belangrijke functie gehad in de overslag en distributie van diverse goederen, waaronder keramiek en voedingsgewassen. De opgraving van deze nederzetting…

We examine the effect of social learning on emotional competence in children and adolescents with a typical or atypical development.

The Institute of Political Science has a multi-dimensional research programme that promotes the unity of the institute as an intellectual community rooted in the social sciences and especially political science, while enabling overlapping groups of colleagues to develop particular research agendas within…

Papyrology+, founded in 2014, is a collaboration of Leiden scholars studying (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Arabic papyri from a socio-historical, economic and linguistic perspective. Papyrology+ aims to explore new opportunities and directions in the study of ancient…

The Master History (study load 60 EC) offers you the chance to determine a study based on your own particular interests and ambitions.

Het Departement geschiedenis van de Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte van de Universiteit van Antwerpen heeft een deeltijdse (75%) vacature voor een doctor-assistent in de geschiedenis van de late Middeleeuwen. Deadline: 23 mei 2022.

Tim Koopmans is one of the great minds in the history of Dutch and European legal scholarship. He taught law as a professor in Leiden and other universities, among which Ghent, Cambridge, Utrecht. He practiced it as a judge in the European Court of Justice and Advocate-General in the Dutch Supreme Court,…

Om de twee jaar reikt de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis de Prijs Henri Pirenne uit. Die prijs bekroont de auteur van een al dan niet uitgegeven belangrijke editie van teksten die betrekking heeft op de geschiedenis van België en als exemplarisch wordt beschouwd. Deadline: 1 juni 2023.

Uitgeverij Lannoo en de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden nodigen u van harte uit voor de feestelijke boekpresentatie van 'Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven - 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten'. De boekpresentatie wordt gehouden op donderdagavond 13 oktober 2022, van 19.30 tot 22.30 uur…

Organisations such as the EU are of enormous benefit to the member states, but the inhabitants of the member states are often unaware of this. Leiden researchers investigate whether international organisations such as the EU or ASEAN are able to influence global politics.

As part of the selection process of Leiden University College, we ask students to attend an LUC sample class. The classes on offer are one hour in length and are offered online. We expect you to switch on your camera during this class, so that it mimics a real class as much as possible. The teacher…

Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.

The research profile area Interaction between Legal Systems has a multidisciplinary approach and aims to inspire innovative research. Out of all the proposals put forward, three winning projects have been selected for the forthcoming research period 2016-2020.

Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.

The master's programme in Heritage and Museum Studies at Leiden University focuses on the relationships between past and present, the role of heritage in our society, and how our heritage can contribute to improving the quality of life and the environment.

Op donderdag 17 april 2025 neemt prof. dr. Marco Mostert, Hoogleraar Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Utrecht afscheid.

‘In recent publications about the slave trade the same rhetorical weapons are used as two centuries ago in the battle for the abolition of the British slave trade. It is a topic fraught with emotions, but that should not prevent historians from being as careful and impartial as possible in their research,’…

On the passing of Anique Schüller

The Robben Island field school in January and February 2011 investigated and documented the tangible and intangible heritage of Robben Island, encompassing the remains associated with various political prisoners, the Muslim exiles, the lepers and lunatics, the WWII soldiers and Navy personnel, the prison…

Klimaatverandering, geopolitieke spanningen en botsende belangen in het Arctisch gebied dwingen tot hernieuwde aandacht voor handhaving en rechtvaardigheid. Hilde Woker, gespecialiseerd in het recht van de zee, spreekt in een uitzending van Kennismakers Radio Sleutelstad over dit actuele onderwerp

Decent work involves opportunities for work that delivers a fair income, care for occupational health and safety, freedom for people to organize and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men. The Labour Law department at Leiden University conducts research and provides education on…

In the Netherlands judges are not the only ones to impose sentences. The Public Prosecution Service and the authorities can also pass sentences. Experts from Leiden research how these sentencing processes work and how they can be improved in order to protect the legal status of the public.

During your PhD, you make agreements with your supervisors concerning your personal development and the supervision you receive. No later than three months after the start of your appointment, these agreements should be recorded in a Training and Supervision Plan (TSP). External PhD candidates must…

The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…

The aim of this project is to develop, evaluate, and multicentre implement a blended form of cardiac rehabilitation that uses a theory-based approach to guide patients to full self-management.

To be eligible for the GMD Legal Track LL.M. at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

De vakgroep geschiedenis van de UGent is op zoek naar een nieuwe onderwijsbegeleider (50%). Kennis van de heuristiek van de middeleeuwen of vroegmoderne tijd strekt tot aanbeveling. Deadline: 5 februari 2023.

Het thema van de Historicidagen 2021 is "Grenzeloze geschiedenis". Voorstellen voor bijdragen kunnen worden ingediend tot 1 februari 2021.

The tree-year bachelor's programme in Archaeology is a many-sided programme in which you study societies, cultures, and human behaviour from the past, aiming to reconstruct and revive them. Dive into the development of human societies all over the world, from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean, and…

Researchers from Leiden University have investigated the living conditions of Dutch fighters in Syria. Their report is central to a panel discussion on Tuesday, 24 May.

Linguistic research on a unique collection of Dutch letters allowed us to gain access to the every-day language of people from various walks of life. Private letters by men, women and even children have been elaborately explored in the Letters as Loot researchprogramme, initiated and directed by prof.…

De Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam zoekt een tijdelijk docent bij de opleiding Geschiedenis, voor de BA-1 module European History 500-1500 (Engelstalige hoorcolleges en minimaal 2 werkgroepen, beide 2 uur per week), september en oktober 2021. De aanstelling omvat minimaal 120 uur. Contactpersoon: Fred…

Het Historisch jaarboek voor Gelderland, de Bijdragen en Mededelingen Gelre nodigt studenten of net afgestudeerden uit om hun (scriptie)onderzoek, over een onderwerp dat raakt aan de geschiedenis van Gelre en Gelderland, in de vorm van een artikel aan een geïnteresseerd publiek te presenteren. Artikelen…

Op 2 juni verscheen ter gelegenheid van ‘900 jaar Utrechtse stadsrechten’ een stripboek van het Utrechtse stripcollectief "De Inktpot" over een paar eeuwen middeleeuwse Utrechtse (familie)geschiedenis. Als inhoudelijke adviseurs waren daarbij de mediëvisten Kaj van Vliet en Martine Meuwese betrokken…

De Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten reikt in 2023 de Pro Civitate Prijs uit aan een onuitgegeven doctoraatsverhandeling die een originele en belangrijke bijdrage vormt tot de stadsgeschiedenis of tot de lokale geschiedenis. Deadline: 15 april 2023.

Het jaarboek BMG wil jonge afgestudeerde historici graag een plek bieden om hun (scriptie)onderzoek, over een onderwerp dat raakt aan de geschiedenis van Gelre en Gelderland, in de vorm van een artikel aan een geïnteresseerd publiek te presenteren. Interesse? Stuur jouw artikel dan vóór 1 juli 2022…