650 search results for “african intellectual history” in the Staff website
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Academic freedom, protests and a safe campus: where are we and how are we going to move forward?
Leiden University has had a turbulent week. There have been protests inside and outside our buildings that have evoked reactions, and students and staff have felt unsafe. We want with this message to look back at the past week and look forward to the future. What happened and how do we now want to move…
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Una Europa webinar: Building Global Networks through Heritage
Webinar
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist?
We can accrue pensions, reinforce dykes and make our homes more sustainable. But how do we make our higher education fit for the future? And what skills should we be teaching our students now for jobs that don’t yet exist? Lecturers and educational developers looked to the future during the keynote…
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
- This Time for Africa! series
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Entrepreneurship as a career prospect for postdocs
Career development
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PhD Workshop: Scholarship and Politics
Workshop
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Leiden Research Support Conference 2023
Conference
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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In the Making #6: Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neuman, Emma Williams, Art Without Soul?
Lecture, Conversation
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Activities
On this page you will find an overview of the activities organised by the Leiden Research Support Network.
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023