An overview of the University’s cafés and restaurants and their opening hours.

Fraude en plagiaat

Toelating en selectie

Minoren en keuzeruimte

Onderwijs-en Examenregeling (OER)

Volgende week lanceren we de nieuwe podcast Mind the Gap, een initiatief dat studenten begeleidt bij de overgang van afstuderen naar hun eerste baan. Hosts Laura van der Plas en Loes Velthuis vertellen in dit interview meer over de podcast, waarin ze praktische tips delen voor een realistische en zelfverzekerde…

Human resources

Nederlanders met lage inkomens lopen tot 1,5 keer meer risico op het krijgen van een hartaanval of beroerte dan rijkere landgenoten. Bij Surinaamse Hindoestanen is dit risico 1,9 keer hoger. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het LUMC en het HagaZiekenhuis. Nederlandse artsen kijken tot nu toe niet naar deze…

De Faculteit Archeologie bestaat dit jaar 25 jaar. Ter ere van dit jubileum opende de faculteit op 1 maart zijn deuren voor het brede publiek.

Organisation

Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur, senior lecturer Otto Boele and film maker and journalist Kay Mastenbroek discuss the most talked-about Russian books published in the past two…

In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.

Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder and founder of Bellingcat, Bonnie Honig, expert in feminist theory and legal theory, and Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry, who works on prevention…

Op woensdagmiddag 17 mei vindt een groot evenement plaats, waar alle Leidse onderzoekers kunnen kennismaken met de interdisciplinaire stimuleringsprogramma’s om samenwerkingsmogelijkheden te verkennen. Waarom is dat ook voor jou interessant? We geven vier redenen.

PhD defence

PhD defence

Prof. A.G. Castermans Prof. J. Hijma

PhD defence

Prof. B. Schoenmaker

Inaugural lecture

Prof. M.L.J.C. Schrover

Prof. P. Silva Prof. J.J. Brunner (Universidad Diego Portales (Chili)

Prof.dr. C.J.M. Zijlmans

PhD defence

Prof. J.C. Wesseling Prof. H.A. Borgdorff

The city of Leiden has a unique combination of knowledge institutions. To ensure this knowledge flourishes and the city gains the maximum benefit from it, the Leiden City of Knowledge partnership was launched five years ago. A new partnership agreement will be signed on 11 November.

PhD defence

The University Council will meet on Monday 16 May at 3:00 PM. The agenda includes the Framework Memorandum and the multi-year plans for ICT and Housing, including energy conservation. The University Council also discusses the proposal for an easier and more accessible structure for a safe working climate,…

PhD defence

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…

Lecture

From 2 to 13 May 2022 EUniWell, the European University for Well-Being, will be hosting its second annual FestiWell. The nine-day event - 'Towards global sustainable well-being' - will explore with students, researchers, and academic and university staff from all EUniWell institutions one of the…

A hidden disability can make studying a considerable challenge, partly because of the disability itself, but also because others may not realise that extra support is justified. To overcome this problem, the Faculty of Humanities is introducing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.

On Wednesday April 6th, 2022, em. prof. dr. Willy Clarysse (Leuven) will present a lecture in Dutch, entitled: ‘Bier, belastingen en dorpssolidariteit. Een tweetalig archief uit Ptolemaeïsche mummiecartonnages’. The lecture will be held with public in the Tempelzaal at the National Museum of Antiquities…

Dr. H.W. Siemens Prof. E. Sabrovsky (Universidad Diego Portales)

PhD defence

Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently against people with a gender expression that does not match their birth sex. Why does this evoke such resistance? We asked Professor by special appointment…

Working for a social client during your studies: this is what happens at Urban Studies. For the course Urban Studies in Practice, third-year students carry out projects for public clients, such as the municipality of The Hague.

How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…

That Tessa Schiethart finished her bachelor's degree in International Studies with a thesis on Indonesian women's reasons for veiling was a coincidence. Or so she thought. Six years later, her book Seeing and Being Seen, in which she writes about her life with a wine stain and vision loss, is in the…

Inaugural lecture

From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.