498 search results for “disability studies” in the Staff website
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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Leiden University Neurodiversity Platform
Introductory meeting
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Nationalism Studies – From the State of the Art to Future Challenges
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods and Tools for New Approaches to Literary Studies
Lecture
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Book launch: online presentation of 'Rembrandt. Studies in his Varied Approaches to Italian Art'
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Research Day of the National Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Conference
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
PhD defence
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Development and application of cryo EM tools to study the ultrastructure of microbes in changing environments
PhD defence
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Studies into Interactive Didactic Approaches for Learning Software Design Using UML
PhD defence
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp'
Lecture
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Intervision group on diversity for mid-career lecturers
Didactics
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Unravelling the Mysteries: Embracing the Particular and the General in Middle East Research - ONLINE
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution'
A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Washington. Americanist Sara Polak discusses the events.
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 2nd annual conference: Back to Normal? The Shifting Ground before, during, and beyond
Conference
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference
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Worlds to Discover: The Qayrawan Collection
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Israel's Foreign Policy in Nagorno Karabakh: History, Geopolitics, and Arms Trading
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The "Serpent of the Desert" and the "Lion’s Whelp": Transformations of Christian Apocalypticism and Interreligious Polemics
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Palestine beyond the Borders: A Local Daily Construction of Alternative Maps
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Worlds to Discover: 16th Century Shiraz Manuscripts
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Dhimma and the Conditions of Christians and Jews in Muslim Granada (13th-15th centuries)
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Rejoicing Life in Malady: Forough Farroukhzad's Documentary of the Lepers of Bababaghi
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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"We Give Them Schools, Hospitals, Democracy. Why Don't They Love Us?" Outside Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001-2021
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Our Digital Future
Debate
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Partisan Aesthetics: A Book Roundtable with Sanjukta Sunderason
Lecture, MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics Roundtable
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
- Dies Natalis 2023
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony