On January 17th, Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) will give a lecture titled: "Private Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages." The lecture is part of a Lorentz Center workshop on 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries' and can also be…

From October 17 to October 20, the international conference "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling" will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome. Research Master students can obtain 2 ECTS by participating in this conference an an additional…

Two open letters are currently circulating among civil servants in the Netherlands calling for the Dutch government to take a different stance towards Israel. Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law in Leiden, says in a national radio broadcast that this is an unusual and unique…

This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…

On the 14th of February, YAL members and other young academics met while engaging in discussions about academia with an eye on the future and discovering how YAL can be a platform to empower young academics.

The aim of this workshop is to open up the discussion of textual communities in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, by offering a platform for PhD students from all over the world and from various disciplines to present their own research and discuss it with others. Deadline: April 23.

On the following page you can find an overview of all courses provided by the Department of Economics.

In the eighties the Umhlatuzana rock shelter in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, was excavated. Results from this excavation led to an understanding when the Later Stone Age started in this area. This archaeological period is often associated with the structural presence of modern human behavior. Now a…

Law is of major importance for socio-economic development. Ideally, law organizes human interaction in a way that promotes justice and legal certainty and protects vulnerable groups from exploitation and arbitrariness.

We offer a broad and diverse amount of courses. Below, you will find all the information about the courses offered by the Department of Business Sciences. If you click on a course, you will be redirected to the course guide.

Level, Bargelaan 180, 2333 CW, Leiden

The European Research Council had awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant to Bleda Düring for the project Consolidating Empire.Reconstructing Hegemonic Practices of the Middle Assyrian Empire at the Late Bronze Age Fortified Estate of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, ca. 1230 – 1180 BC.

Sylvius, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden

Oort, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden

On Tuesday 30 April 2024 Jonny Russell successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Two researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their ideas for a period of three years.

For my Policy in Practice research project, Elise van Dansik engaged with a problem that Leiden ‘Social Domain’ policy officers saw themselves confronted with, which was why migrant organizations of Slaaghwijk (a socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Leiden’s north) do not cooperate with…

Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden

Plexus Student Centre, Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN, Leiden

Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP, The Hague

Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

Arsenaal, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden

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Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017

This project aims to open up the pre-Islamic linguistic history of Arabia through the systematic study of the Thamudic inscriptions within a digital humanities framework.

On Thursday 21 November 2024 Jake Benson successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.

Clara ten Hacken defended her thesis on 16 December 2015

One of our LUCIS members, Karène Sanchez, has been granted the Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for her project 'Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)'. Sanchez is cooperating with researchers from IEG Mainz and IISMM…

In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used.

The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.

LUMC Research Building, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC, Leiden

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Gorlaeus Faculty Office, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

Willem Einthoven, Kolffpad 1, 2333 BN, Leiden

Commagene in its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context

Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, 2311 BG, Leiden

Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, The Hague

LUMC Education Building, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden

Van Steenis, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden

Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ, Leiden