1,036 search results for “greek and roman history” in the Staff website
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants
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.
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Dusan MaczekFaculteit Archeologie
d.maczek@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Weishuo LiFaculteit Archeologie
w.li@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Save the date! The 2024 Congress of the RCRF will be held in Leiden
Organisation
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Research Traineeship Programme completed: 'Here you are encouraged to try things'
Discovering while still studying whether work in science might be for you. That is what students get during the faculty Research Traineeship Programme. On Friday 1 September, they presented their results to each other and their supervisors.
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1693
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Book Talk: A Modern History of China’s Art Market
Lecture, China Seminar
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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BA Classics students staging a production of Hecuba: ‘It really brings a tragedy to life.’
Translating texts, rehearsing scenes or practising music. Over the last few weeks, students of the BA Classics programme have been focused on just one thing: their production of the Greek tragedy Hecuba. Almost a third of them are involved in it. Iris de Smalen, who plays Hecuba, and Christoph Pieper,…
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New professor David Holmes engages with age-old counting problems
As of 1 October, David Holmes has been appointed full professor of Pure Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute (MI). His work lies at the intersection of algebra, geometry and number theory.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Professor Ineke Sluiter receives Arts and Sciences Medal of Honour
On 25 November, Professor Ineke Sluiter received the Medal of Honour for Arts and Sciences in the Order of Orange-Nassau. She was presented with the medal by King Willem-Alexander.
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Summer camp, but behind a laptop.
From Monday 19 July onwards, eighteen children between the ages of 10 and 12 are learning the programming language Hedy. In the Snellius building of Leiden University they will be taught the first principles of programming this week.
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Jorrit Rijpma presents study to European Parliament
Jorrit Rijpma, Professor of European Law, together with Greek independent researcher Apostolis Fotiadis, investigated the European Commission’s enforcement powers in relation to fundamental rights compliance at Europe’s external borders. The study was commissioned and funded by the Greens Group of the…
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
In its session of 15 April 2024, the Austrian Academy of Sciences elected professor Petra Sijpesteijn as one of its new Corresponding Members.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Suzan AbozyidFaculty of Humanities
s.i.abozyid@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5989
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Arie van der WielFaculty of Humanities
a.c.a.van.der.wiel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Sanâa May Swart
Faculty of Humanities
s.m.swart@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Tomás Díaz
Faculty of Humanities
t.diaz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
n.m.pereira.rios@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
m.jorna@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Rosa Kösters
Faculty of Humanities
r.m.kosters@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
m.rijks@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273516
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Theresa St John
Faculty of Humanities
t.l.st.john@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Cristian Saavedra Bastía
Faculty of Humanities
c.e.saavedra.bastia@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Leonard Ornstein
Faculty of Humanities
l.s.ornstein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
h.f.busch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
c.g.cisternas.guasch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
f.cousino@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
h.van.der.kraan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Macarena Alegria Garcia
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.alegria.garcia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Zoltán Quittner
Faculty of Humanities
z.quittner@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Nadia Rojas
Faculty of Humanities
n.j.rojas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Liliana Morawietz Yanez
Faculty of Humanities
l.morawietz.yanez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 52716646
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
g.a.murtaza@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Tim LubbersFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.lubbers@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4727
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Jiaxuan Huang
Faculty of Humanities
j.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Hein Drop
Faculty of Humanities
h.g.drop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
f.colla.de.amorim@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jamel BuhariFaculty of Humanities
j.l.j.buhari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8073