1,921 search results for “history of the contemporary middle echt” in the Staff website
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Space for Academic Dialogue: on the concept of genocide, the right to protest and academic boycotts
Debate
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Thirza is the new student member of the IB: 'I want to hear the opinions of less outspoken students'
Since 1 September, fourth-year student Thirza van 't Rood has been the new student member of the Institute Board at Cultural Anthropology. Her first task is to organise the elections for the programme committee. Her mission for the coming year is also to collect the opinions of less outspoken students.…
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Jonathan Hak on the paramount importance of the truth – and why we shouldn’t always take images at face value
Hak, lawyer, international imagery law lecturer, and adjunct associate professor, talks about his PhD research on the use of images in international criminal prosecutions. He was a public prosecutor in Canada for over 30 years and dealt primarily with the prosecution of homicides and other major cri…
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Corona and the gulf between citizens and experts
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 with people from within and outside the University. On this occasion,…
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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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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Sabine WittingFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.k.witting@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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From the Spanish flu to Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis: 'Government intervention can have unexpected effects'
From the Spanish Flu during WWI to COVID-19: the role of the American government in these Pandemics. Professor Giles Scott-Smith, who together with Dario Fazzi and Gaetano Di Tommaso completed the book project Public Health and the American State, discusses a century of American responses to health…
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After the launch of the next big space mission: ‘This is a big step towards understanding dark matter and dark energy.’
Henk Hoekstra and Alessandra Silvestri work on the astronomy and theoretical physics in the Euclid mission. These Dutch researchers are part of the mission.
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Leiden Law Cast: reverend Ruben Van Zwieten
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be
Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of those benefits. To rectify that, a Leiden PhD candidate and a student – armed with a cargo bike – are using The Hague as a life-size laboratory.
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Iverson: ‘Jus Post Bellum: The Rediscovery, Foundations, and Future of the Law of Transforming War into Peace’
Jus post bellum, the body of laws and norms governing the transition from armed conflict to peace, has emerged as a crucial issue for international law scholars, governments, and all concerned with building a just and sustainable peace. The Jus Post Bellum Project, funded by the NWO and hosted by the…
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Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science: ‘I want to show how we’re finding alternatives to animal testing’
PhD candidate Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science. In videos and blogs, she will show what life is like as a young researcher.
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Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
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Mongol Loyalty Networks
PhD defence
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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Fieldwork NL conference 2022
Conference
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
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In the Making #5: Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian, Experiencing Text and Textile, with Guest Speaker Suzanne Knip-Mooij
Lecture, Conversation
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Families in Transit: Child-bearing, Child-rearing and Inheritance during Displacement
Conference
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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Fixing the Outcomes of Transparency: Data Context and the Concentration of Explanatory Power.
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Book presentation ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’
Lecture
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2686
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Lennie GeerlingsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.r.c.geerlings@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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War in Europe
Conference
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 5 April: Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran
Lecture
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
- Space for academic debate: security at universities
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Streaming Piety: Religion in Turkish Television Drama
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Networks of the future
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
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Results of the university elections
Bekendmaking verkiezingen
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Results of the university elections
Elections
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Children's Rights Under Fire: The Right to Education During and After War
Panel Discussion
- Opening of the Faculty Year
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Week of the International Student
Arts and culture
- Faculty Board FGGA statement on the results of the D&I survey 2022