160 search results for “ancient judaism” in the Student website
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
a.aleo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
c.van.der.voort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
f.kootstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
m.e.j.j.van.aerde@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1138
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Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar
Lecture, Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar and Ancient Worlds Network Lecture
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she can use as she wishes to explore new avenues in basic scientific research.
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6449
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2439
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Casper de Jonge: 'By broadening the canon we keep antiquity modern'
On 1 May, Casper de Jonge will be appointed Professor of Greek Language and Literature. ‘Greek literature did not come from Athens alone: authors from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor also wrote in Greek.’
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture
- Testimonial Research Traineeship
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Faculty and study programme regulations
At faculty and study programme level there are various regulations in place to ensure that everything runs as it should. For example, there are thesis and faculty regulations, as well as rules and guidelines on assessments, exams, degree classifications and plagiarism.
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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form
In her “Jews and Judaism” lecture class in Fall 2020, Dr. Sarah Cramsey’s students produced 7-minute long podcasts instead of final papers.
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Oriental Dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Oriental dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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The dean Mark Rutgers speaks at penultimate session of flash campaign
After the new government announced its plans to cut expenditure on academic education, the Faculty of Humanities launched the flash campaign ‘Stop the Catastrophic Cuts to Universities!’. Now academics across the university have been explaining why their discipline is needed.
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Uhlenbeck scholarship programme for mandatory study abroad
Master
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Theatres and museums
In the centre of Leiden there are thirteen museums, all within walking distance of each other. Leiden is also home to the oldest theatre in the Netherlands, the Leidse Schouwburg. The Hague on the other hand has no less than thirty museums in and around the city, as well as a wealth of theatres. So…
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Call for Applications - Classics Colloquium, 12-15 December at the University of Bologna
Education
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JEDI Fund: ‘We’re now showing clearly that the community is diverse’
If you have a plan that could improve the education or the learning environment of the Faculty of Humanities in terms of diversity or inclusion, you can apply for a grant from the faculty’s JEDI Fund. This year, Nasreen has been helping to develop a new syllabus for the first-year Ancient History co…
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Uhlenbeck conference scholarship
Master
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Programme
From ancient sites to heritage rescue, from digital sciences to the evolution of human origins: at Archaeology & Society, you will learn about the many multidisciplinary aspects of archaeological research.
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Statement from the Executive board: taking care of one another
The world is currently beset by many problems. The armed conflict and continuing violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories is resulting in numerous casualties. This is giving rise to many emotions and reactions worldwide, and also greatly affecting our own university community. We have seen…
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Output
Here you can find some examples of previous projects and output.
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Six top rated programmes at humanities
The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguistics have received the predicate top rated programme from the Keuzegids.
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities
Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Language and Culture, Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Latin American Studies, Ancient Near East Studies, Religious Studies and Russian Studies.
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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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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
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Join the free online course Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics!
Education
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers
Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at the Faculty of Humanities. They each receive a sum of 75,000 euros from the Leiden University Fund (LUF).
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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Artificial intelligence and clay tablets: not yet a perfect match
Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are popping up more and more often about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts. Are we better off leaving the deciphering of ancient texts to computers from now…
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Europaeum - Call for Applications, September 2023
Education
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic 2.0 programme is aimed at an underrepresented group of graduates with a migrant background.
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Uhlenbeck scholarship research master students
Master
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Medals for Humanities Faculty programmes
Three programmes at the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded medals by EW and ResearchNed. The bachelor’s in German Language and Culture took gold, and the bachelor's in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and the master's in Middle Eastern Studies each earned a bronze medal.
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Faculty Office has moved to Herta Mohr Building
As from Wednesday 13 May, the Faculty Office has moved to the Herta Mohr Building.
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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(REGISTRATION CLOSED) Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Debate
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Getting your master's thesis published in a prestigious journal: alumni Matthieu did that
After completing one bachelor’s and two master’s programmes at Leiden University, alumnus in Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy Matthieu Agustoni finished his student life with a bang: he got his master's thesis published in a prestigious journal.
- Daring questions in Islam
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Book presentation: Coping with Versnel
At a festive book presentation on the 21st of July Prof. em. Henk Versnel received a copy of the volume Coping with Versnel. This historiographical volume highlights the important position of Versnel’s work in the study of religion in the ancient world.
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.