This liber amicorum is a tribute to Prof. dr. ir. Hans H. de Iongh, associate professsor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) of Leiden University and guest professor at the University of Antwerp, on the occasion of his retirement on 27 October 2016.

Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era

On Thursday 28 March 2024 Said Reza Huseini successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The Flentrop Organ is the third organ to have been built for the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building in Leiden.

Since the Middle Passage is in the North Atlantic, and the North Atlantic has a relationship with the arctic, what relationship does the Arctic have with the Middle Passage? How can this relationship be used to provide a space of healing by uncovering Afro/diasporic counter narratives?

CADS researchers give methodology their own unique signature through two parallel engagements: (a) teaching and researching the full range of social science methods, from audio-visual engagements, through global ethnography, to statistical analysis; and (b) interrogating these multiple modalities employing…

Below you can find information about the research projects on public leadership of the public management research group at the Institute of Public Administration.

Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia

This collection brings into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship which have tended to remain separate over the last two to three decades, a period of steadily increasing scholarly interest in this topic.

An account of a cognitive approach to historically informed staging.

How do urban residents in Brazil and the Netherlands (The Hague and Leiden) perceive the cultural benefits of urban forests? How are these benefits spatially distributed across cities? How do socio-demographic factors shape these perceptions, and do these differences vary between countries?

What are the conditions under which coercive diplomacy can compel a State to abandon its controversial nuclear (weapons) program? Based on the experience of the US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of three countries, namely Iran, Libya and South Africa, Jean Yves Ndzana’s PhD research…

Emily Wolff, PhD candidate at Leiden University, wrote a paper about the inclusion of imperial citizens in the Dutch post-war welfare state.

Subproject of

Telders Competition

The Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity (LEIDS) measures cognitive reactivity (CR) to sadness, an aspect of cognitive vulnerability to depression, conceptually similar to rumination.

The main objective of this research is to map out the cities of the Roman Near East in the imperial period, with a focus on location, city size and urban features, in order to study the form the urban system and its levels of integration.

The project aims to conserve and consolidate the entrance gate to the Roman Desert Frontier Fort Qasr Bshir.

Festschrift for Prof. Dr Raymond H.A. Corbey in celebration of his 70th birthday

This dissertation presents the first full grammatical description of bago ts'amakkilo ('mouth of the Ts'amakko'), or simply Ts'amakko. It is a Cushitic language, spoken in Southwest Ethiopia and belongs to the Dullay cluster of Lowland East Cushitic. The number of speakers is about 10,000. The data…

European integration is under pressure. At the same time, the notion of a European administrative space is being explicitly voiced. But does a shared idea of the public servant exist in Europe?

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

What are relationships between student teachers’ personal characteristics, learning experiences and perception of external environmental aspects impacting teacher career and their commitment to teaching?

A warm welcome to the Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Leiden University.

This project studies the development of civic engagement in the Netherlands from the mid-eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, through a focus on the local and regional levels.

Leiden University and China import partner.

The MA Asian Studies East Asian Studies offers focused study of China, Japan or Korea. You can study the country of your choice from an expansive number of disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, art, art history, sociology, anthropology, media, cultural studies, religious studies,…

1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps.

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is one of seven institutes housed within the Faculty of Humanities.

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

Nick Cohen interviews Andrew Gawthorpe about the current geopolitical situation, particularly focusing on America's disastrous war with Iran and its broader implications.

Work on the buildings for the Faculty of Humanities is continuing. Planning has begun for a modern, future-proof education building on the site of the current Reuvens building. The new education building is scheduled for completion in mid-2031.

Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

Arts and culture

Conference

Tussen de sterren is niet alleen leegte. Er zweven ook stoffen als methanol en koolstofdioxide. Chemische theorieën kunnen nog niet verklaren hoe die zijn ontstaan onder omstandigheden die dat juist onmogelijk zouden moeten maken. Fedor Goumans gaat met een Veni-beurs proberen die vraag te beantwoor…

Op zaterdag 27 februari organiseert Stichting Zenobia het Vijftiende Zenobiacongres, met de titel Van de Levant tot de Lagune: Venetië en het Oosten. Het congres zal online plaatsvinden en is vrij toegankelijk.

Op vijf donderdagavonden vanaf 29 september wordt een lezingenreeks over het onderzoek en de restauratie van de Abdij van Park georganiseerd.

De Contactgroep Signum organiseert haar jaarlijkse symposium in 2022 in Gouda, op zaterdag 27 augustus 2022 (Streekarchief Midden Holland, Steenlandzaal). Het thema betreft de 'De parochiekerk in de middeleeuwen en vroegmoderne tijd'.

De vakgroep geschiedenis van de UGent is op zoek naar een nieuwe onderwijsbegeleider (50%). Kennis van de heuristiek van de middeleeuwen of vroegmoderne tijd strekt tot aanbeveling. Deadline: 5 februari 2023.

Op 2 april 2022 (10.00-17.00) organiseert de Werkgroep Norbertijner Geschiedenis in de Nederlanden haar 30ste contactdag rond het thema "Norbertijnse Lievevrouwen". Voor meer informatie en inschrijvingen: h.janssens@abdijaverbode.be.

De voorjaarsvergadering van de Stichting Oudchristelijke Studiën vindt plaats op 7 maart 2020. De ochtendlezing wordt verzorgd door Prof. Gie Vleugels, terwijl Dr. Klazina Staat instaat voor de middaglezing.

Op 6 mei organiseert de voormalige abdij Bonne Espérance een contactdag voor belangstellenden.

De zalen voor het tentamen Inleiding Astrofysica op dinsdag 19 december van 10:00-13:00 zijn: HL 106, HL 204, HL226, HL 411 en HL 414. Heb je tentamen duurverlenging dan kan je in HL106 terecht. Succes!

De vijfde Dag van de Medioneerlandistiek wordt georganiseerd in Nijmegen door de Radboud Universiteit op vrijdag 24 maart. Het thema luidt: ‘De medioneerlandistiek en de wereld van nu’. Zet de datum alvast in je agenda; nadere informatie volgt. Graag tot dan!

Op 29 november zal Lex Bosman, hoogleraar architectuurgeschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, een afscheidscollege houden, getiteld: "Ruimte: een architectuurhistorische verkenning". Het college vindt plaats in de Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Op 25 maart organiseert het Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies een online lezing door Angus Stewart, getiteld “The Mongol Invasions of Syria and the Armenians: Changing Perspectives”.