124 search results for “theatre historiography” in the Staff website
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Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding'
What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wentz is trying to get closer to an answer to that question.
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Carlo Diaz
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.diaz@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- ‘Theatres of Law: Policing, Prosecution, and Performance from Plato to YouTube’ – Workshop with Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University) and
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
a.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2564
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Peak performances by teams in the operating theatre: What makes a care professional resilient?
Working in an operating theatre is a highly competitive sport. High work pressure, stress, and unexpected developments during operations. This requires a lot from care professionals who need to be mentally resilient to be able to deliver peak performances time and time again. What makes a care professional…
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From studying international law to touring with your own theatre show
Graduating in international law and fulfilling a childhood dream by performing your own theatre show. Alumna Fleur Verhoeff has achieved both. How did she go from studying law to the performing arts? And how does her background in international law help?
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Mindlab about to start: 'Theatre can help us have a good conversation'
The Mindlab theatre and discussion programme will start at the Faculty of Humanities at the end of September. University lecturers Tazuko van Berkel and Sara Polak were moderators at the first session.
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
m.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2757
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
g.i.van.ling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 8629
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Renske Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
k.p.s.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
p.a.webb@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1689
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Theatre (acting) & Improvisation
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Cicero, Statesmanship, and Republicanism in Roman Historiography
PhD defence
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The Theatre of Emotions
PhD defence
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RED: final presentations Theatre, Music and Dance
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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In practice
How do you shape innovation in education? What do students think of new teaching methods? What works and what doesn't? Get inspired by the projects that were started and completed in the period 2018 - 2020.
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
f.lin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2538
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Staff association
Leiden University has an active staff association that provides a wide range of events each year ranging from theatre visits and courses to trips abroad. Membership costs only €1.50 per month.
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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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Accepting gifts
If you have business contacts, you may at some point be offered a gift: a physical object or a service or advantage. What gifts can you accept without allowing your integrity to be called into question?
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Playing with words
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Work Balance in Action
Many people at the Faculty of Humanities engage in their work with great passion and enthusiasm. It is important that employees enjoy their work and create a healthy work balance. Work Balance in Action is intended to keep the theme of ‘work balance’ on the agenda. By engaging in dialogue around this…
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Aphroditi Zoulfoukaridis: ‘I hope to keep doing this work for a very long time’
Aphroditi Zoulfoukaridis is the manager of LeidenGlobal, a partnership of several faculties at the University and other academic and cultural institutions in Leiden. In her free time, she enjoys visiting cultural events and loves to travel.
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The rocking researcher: Marjolein Fokkema connects disciplines with algorithms and pop songs
From predicting Alzheimer’s to the growth of organisms: psychologist Marjolein Fokkema’s algorithms can be used in many disciplines. They also provide inspiration for her songs, theatre shows and life lessons. What drives this rocking researcher?
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Virtual reality in hospitals
Elise Sarton is using her inaugural lecture to give her field of anaesthesiology a chance to take the limelight for a change.
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Come to Mindlab: 'We are collectively responsible for our social safety'
The Mindlab theatre and discussion programme will launch at the Faculty of Humanities at the end of September. What exactly does this programme on social safety entail? And who is it intended for? HR adviser Brigitte Heming explains.
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Practical information
On this page you will find information about the university buildings, a workspace at the faculty and other facilities such as a LU-card and access to the university libraries as well as on who to inform in case of illness.
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Farewell Paul Abels as Professor
On 25 May, Professor Paul Abels retired as professor by special appointment. Abels has been working as Professor by special appointment Governance of Intelligence and Security Services at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs since 2017.
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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Leiden Teaching Prize nominee 2023: ‘Every lesson somebody says something I never thought of’
Two years ago, university lecturer Kirsty Rolfe was nominated for the Faculty Teaching Prize. Now she is in the running for the university equivalent. ‘It’s lovely to see students blossom.’
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Symposium - Biographies and Restitution of Hindu and Buddhist Objects from Java, Sumatra and Bali (18 May 2022)
Research
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Podcast: The art of Presenting
We have the pleasure of hosting organisational psychologist Fieke Harinck. Fieke is an expert on negotiation, communication skills and improvisation and co-author of the book ‘The Art of Presenting’. She shares invaluable insights and advice on how to deliver impactful presentations that captivate your…
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood on Day of Empathy
The tuktuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. In the town center of Oegstgeest, the Empathy Team, consisting of Liesbeth van Vliet, Hinke Hoffstadt, Yvette van der Linden and Jenny van der Steen, took interested visitors on a journey into the experience…
- Daring questions in Islam
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Call for Papers for LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism' on 23 September 2022
Medievalism is the area of academic study that investigates the reception and reconstruction of the medieval past since the Middle Ages came to an end.
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Introducing: Kathrin Hamenstädt
In August 2022, Kathrin Hamenstädt has moved to Leiden from the UK to take up the position of Assistant Professor. Below she introduces himself!
- University to raise orange flag against violence against women
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Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski
On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collective memories.
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia
Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, circular economy, biodiversity and medicine. They also work on projects to improve legal education and make Dutch sources and Indonesian heritage accessible…
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Annick van Rinsum about her play: World Politics Three Times
MA International Relations: Culture and Politics student Annick van Rinsum created a play as a method to research her master’s thesis. “Through writing this play, I aim to contribute to our understanding of International Relations Theory. I’m specifically interested in the question how our theories…
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The Personnel Monitor results are in: what happens now?
The most problematic themes in the Faculty of Humanities are workload and social safety, according to the recently completed Personnel Monitor. What happens now?
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Additional all-gender toilets at KOG with appropriate signing
Facility