1,212 search results for “area studies” in the Staff website
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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Warrior Women, Gender-bending Plots, Perfect Masculinity: Paradigms of gender in Javanese Amir Hamza narratives
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Navigating the Turn to the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands
Panel discussion
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The Military Perspective: Sea Power in International Security
Lecture
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On behalf of the Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited
Lecture, Book talk
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Asia Academy #06: Taiwan's Future
Lecture
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Archaeologists bring experts on human evolution together with Kiem grant
Leiden University's Kiem grants aim to help develop new interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaborations and encounters. In the first round, a Kiem grant was awarded to a group of researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the LUMC for the organisation of a symposium…
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How can we make better use of natural resources?
Mining for natural resources harms the environment. But we desperately need them, for both the development of countries and the transition to a sustainable energy system. Professor of Sustainable Resource Use Ester van der Voet researches how we can reduce the environmental impact of natural resources…
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Executive Board of the University asks University Council for advice on activating person counters/sensors
The Executive Board of Leiden University has asked the University Council to advise on its proposed decision to reactivate the person counters/sensors in due course. The Council will now look at this carefully before the Board makes a final decision. The advice of the University’s participation body…
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Building a stronger and more resilient Union - Mapping the cost of non-Europe (2022-2032)
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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CSC-Leiden University Scholarship
PhD
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The Military Perspective: Space Power
Lecture
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The Military Perspective: Commanding Air Power
Lecture
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Military Purposes
Lecture
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In memoriam: Alexander Hendrik (Sander) de Groot (3 april 1943 - 1 april 2024)
Op maandag 1 april 2024 stierf onze leermeester, vriend en gewaardeerd collega Dr. Alexander Hendrik de Groot (Sander).
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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What the campus at Leiden Bio Science Park will look like
The university campus at Leiden Bio Science Park will change rapidly over the next few years. A short film shows the transformation to a full campus. See what this mix of new university buildings, student accommodation and restaurants and cafés will look like. And sustainability and biodiversity won’t…
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Leiden University-Zurich University Workshop: Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
Workshop
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Partners into the Contemporary Art Sector: Exploring China as a Case Study
Lecture, China Seminar
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Update on Laboratory Renovations and Refreshing of Classroom Facilities Pieter de la Court
After months of renovating, refreshing, and rearranging, the educational environment in the Basement will be back in use starting 28 October 2024.
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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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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis
At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, but building materials. And recent ones at that! Check out the exhibition on Legos lost at sea, conceived and assembled by PhD candidate Maia Casna. ‘These…
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: ELS lab meeting - Welcome back: connecting the dots
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Eager enlargers, reluctant reformers? Central and Eastern European perspectives on EU’s institutional reform
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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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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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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In cap and gown on the A12, titles on X? Academics in the public debate
Dialogue session
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: ELS lab meeting - ELS Resolutions
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Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia
Lecture, Book Talk - Austrian Studies Fund / CEES Centre
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Decolonisation for whom?: Museum Practices in Europe, Asia, and Japan
Lecture
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Italy From Facism to Democracy. And Back?
Lecture, Seminar
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Stability in unstable times: how the European Central Bank handles inflation
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Inspiration sessions Empirics and legal education
Inspiratiesessies
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The First 20 Years: Reconsidering European Union Enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe
Conference, Conversation
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New ‘university centre’ to be created in former Hudson’s Bay building in downtown The Hague
Leiden University, together with the Open University and Universities of the Netherlands, will take up residence in the Spui building at Grote Marktstraat 48-50/Spui 3 in downtown The Hague from 2025. The partners signed the leases on 7 November.
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Student tower opened
The 289 students who recently moved into the tower on Kolffpad at the Leiden Bio Science Park are sitting pretty. A self-contained unit in the middle of the campus yet surrounded by green, with a launderette, games room and study area on the ground floor, and, coming soon, a branch of Coffee Star.
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Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Reindustrialization and its discontents: lessons from the Visegrad countries
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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German beyond its native speakers: pluricentric, multilingual, and globalized perspectives
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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Catching Kairos? Imagining Alternative Futures in Eastern German Literature
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Beyond Discourse: An Introduction to Conversation Analysis in Linguistics Research and Elsewhere
Lecture
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar