Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…

Hande Taner (on the left), graduated from Leiden University College (Liberal Arts and Sciences, World Politics) now pursuing a Master’s in European Affairs at SciencesPo Paris and London School of Economics. On Monday 22 October 2018 at the OSCE/ODIHR conference on combatting discrimination, she…

At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…

We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we are today. This is what Marie Soressi, Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology, will argue in her inaugural…

Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy to allow economic growth while reducing nitrogen losses was disapproved by the highest court in the Netherlands, casting the country into a nitrogen…

The Municipality of The Hague called on researchers to come up with a proposal for an innovative research project on problems big cities face such as energy transition. Four of the five projects that have been granted funding come from researchers from Leiden University.

From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS), will host a conference on the Shiʿi hadith corpora. The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2020.

Depictions of Rembrandt, Michelangelo and many other artists are given a new dimension in an exhibition in the hall of the Oude UB at Leiden University. The exhibition - 'Multiple Images' - opens officially on 15 February. Artist Rudi Struik has given the slides of Leiden art historian Henri van de…

According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several successive population dispersals that originated on the American mainland.

Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.

Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…

Students from eLaw completed a successful work experience programme researching contact tracing apps at Privacy Company in The Hague.

Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros.

Former archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete skeleton of an extinct Eurasian straight-tusked elephant. The remains show that our ancestors enjoyed the odd elephant steak. But they weren’t the only ones…

What we buy and consume in Europe often has an impact on biodiversity somewhere else in the world. With a Horizon Europe Funding of 600.000 euros, assistant professor Laura Scherer and her team will develop models to look at the impact of global trade in non-food biomass. ‘After developing the models,…

As a twelve-year-old girl, Nicky van de Beek became intrigued by the tomb chapels in Saqqara, Egypt. Now she is doing her PhD on them, just like another Leiden Egyptologist decades earlier. Herta Mohr persevered with her research during World War II. Now she is the namesake of the first Leiden building…

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edition to point out the importance of creativity, both for artists and scientists.

PhD defence

The Śākadvīpīya (or Maga) Brāhmaṇas are Hindu sun worshippers mainly settled in Rājasthān and Bihār. They claim to have come from Iranian lands in ancient times and brought some Iranian customs and religious elements into their sun cult. According to some sections of the Sāmba- and Bhaviṣya-purāṇa,…

Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series

Lecture, Applied African Linguistics

Prof. H.G.J.M. Vermetten Summary Dat een militaire uitzending tot mentale gezondheidsproblemen bij veteranen kan leiden is bekend, maar wat de impact is op de lange termijn is nog onduidelijk. In dit proefschrift worden de resultaten besproken van het PRISMO-onderzoek waarin een groep van duizend…

Prof. W.C. Peul Summary: Hoewel de behandelmogelijkheden voor patiënten met een kwaadaardige hersentumor zijn verbeterd in de afgelopen jaren, blijft het een ongeneselijke ziekte met een gemiddelde overleving in orde van maanden na diagnose. De nauwe balans tussen de baten en risico’s van behandeling…

Prof. M.V. Huisman Een longembolie is een ernstige en potentieel levensbedreigende aandoening in de acute fase en kan daarnaast op lange termijn grote impact hebben op het dagelijks leven van een patiënt. De helft van de longemboliepatiënten heeft last van aanhoudende kortademigheid en/of verminderde…

Lecture, Conversation

PhD defence

Prof. W. van der Does Prof. A van Minnen (Radbout University) Prof. M. Schoorl Summary: Fysiek of seksueel misbruik in de kindertijd kan langdurige psychische klachten veroorzaken zoals een posttraumatische stress stoornis (PTSS). ‘Prolonged exposure’ (PE), een vorm van gedragstherapie, is…

PhD defence

PhD defence

Leiden European City of Science 2022, in collaboration with the New European Bauhaus initiative of the European Commission and the Urban Health Campus Almere Leiden, present a programme entitled ‘Urban Health’ on Thursday, the 13th of October 2022. The multidimensionality of health in an urban environment…

PhD defence

In recent decades, the topic of language has attracted quite some interest in historical sociolinguistics (e.g. Rjéoutski & Frijhoff 2018), often centred around Fishman’s (1965) famous question: “who speaks what language to whom and when”. Most studies to date have tackled this question from a qualitative…

Prof. C.J.F. Boon Prof. G.P.M. Luyten Summary: Dit promotieonderzoek gaat over de oogziekte centrale sereuze chorioretinopathie (serosa). Bij deze aandoening is er sprake van ophoping van vocht onder het netvlies, wat kan leiden tot een vermindering in zicht, verschil in contrastzien en soms ook vervormingen…

Lecture

Prof. P.R. Rodrigues Prof. P. Boeles Summary: Het concept ‘vrijwillige terugkeer’ is een cruciaal maar vaak slecht begrepen onderdeel van de EU-Terugkeerrichtlijn, die regels stelt voor de terugkeer onrechtmatig in EU-lidstaten verblijvende migranten. Vrijwillige terugkeer biedt hun de kans…

How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?

Conference

From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…

Upcoming activities by docARTES PhD candidates Shaya Feldman, Anne Veinberg, Ned McGowan and Nizar Rohana, PhDArts candidates Brigitte Kovacs, Eleni Kamma, Danne Ojeda, Andrea Stultiens and K.G.Guttman and ACPA PhD candidate Henri Bok.

PhD candidates Vincent Walstra and Leen Felix in dialogue

Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.

Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel

Lecture

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

Lecture

This presentation discusses novel visual analytics and non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques for large, high dimensional datasets. Focusing on the non-linear embedding technique tSNE, we developed Dual tSNE and linked-view tSNE to enable fast and interactive identification of clusters and functionally…

Lecture