Course, Summer School

Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture

Many of the challenges of our time are too complex to be resolved within the confines of a single discipline. Leiden University is a broad-based university where an incredible number of research fields converge. That makes us the ideal breeding ground for, and practitioners of, interdisciplinary research…

Rieneke Sonnevelt of Leiden University will give an interesting insight (in Dutch) on the way in which two families in Babylon deal with a changing world during the Babylonian and Persian periods, in the 6th-5th century BC. Clay tablets in the archives of two families from Babylon (6th-5th century…

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Lecture, UMW Research Seminar

Lecture, VVIK lecture

How letters were read: New considerations on Carolingian practices Martin Gravel (Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis ): Epistolography is almost as old as writing itself. It is, however, far from static in its forms and usage. In the Latin tradition, it has been observed that orality played an…

Conference

Conference

PhD defence

Portraits of six Leiden professors for whom 8 February 2016 was the first time that they took part in the procession of Leiden professors at the Dies Natalis.

Lecture

Work in progress: “Continuities and discontinuities in the use of Roman amulets” by P.M.M. Kret, MA (PhD candidate)

This event on 30 June is postponed. --- This seminar explores both the phenomenon of epigram production itself and discusses the worldview that was inscribed in the epigrams. For more information and registration, please see the website of KNIR.

Conference, Research Seminar

The conference Storie del possibile took place in the Ex- lavanderia of Santa Maria della Pietà in the neighbourhood Monte Mario in Rome, on April 21-22 2018. Maria Vasile, PhD candidate of the "Food Citizens?" project, attended the conference and shares her experiences.

The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.

Archaeologists from Leiden University find what is clearly an earth wall and ditch structure in the woods near Ermelo. They suspect it may be the remains of a Roman military camp, but as yet have no conclusive evidence. Will they be able to solve the puzzle?

In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic specialist Rudolf de Jong decided to stay in Egypt. ‘A lot of the work carries on.’

Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanities projects will receive the funding.

Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.

On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We asked some of them what this qualification means to them, what they believe ‘good teaching’ entails and what makes them so passionate about education…

This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…

Usually, the focus of a legal historian is on Rome. It is not difficult to make out why: the entire civilian tradition is built on Roman law. However, not even the Romans, acquired their laws through divine intervention, but have no doubt drawn inspiration from legal systems in other ancient civilisations,…

Roundtable

Conference, Meet us in your country

Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

Lecture

Lecture

Conference, Meet us in your country

Conference, Meet us in your country

University ceremony

The history of Christianity in the Roman Empire has long been regarded as one of persecution, of brave martyrs, and of the cruel Roman officials throwing them to the lions. At the same time, this level of repression is usually regarded as extremely rare in the otherwise almost proverbially religiously…

Lecture

Knowledge of Muslim societies is essential to function in a globalised world and to fully understand our own Dutch society. Leiden researchers explore the languages, cultures, religions, legal systems and history of Muslim societies and in this way contribute to a centuries-old tradition.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

This programme aims to identify the intellectual contexts that were of importance for the architectural theory of the period, and especially to clarify the relation of architectural theory to primitivism.

Dr Davide Domenici will present on his work on his ongoing work on creating an open access website that showcases Indigenous American Heritage in Italy. In his talk, “KNOT: Envisioning A Virtual Museum of Indigenous American Heritage in Italy”, Davide will present a project that is in the start-up phase,…

Online Book Launch

PhD defence

Course, Workshop

Prijsuitreiking