In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

Governance and Global Affairs, Instituut Bestuurskunde

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…

What are the environmental trade-offs for SMEs considering moving from monoculture aquaculture practice towards IMTA? What are the environmental trade-offs comparing IMTA species with their conventional monoculture alternatives?

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

Het Instituut Psychologie verzorgt innovatief en interdisciplinair onderzoek en onderwijs binnen de psychologie en aanverwante vakgebieden.

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

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Alle vijf afleveringen van het eerste seizoen van 'Breingeheim' zijn nu te beluisteren op Spotify. Studenten en wetenschappers shuiven aan dezelfde tafel aan om het raadsel van het jongvolwassenbrein te ontrafelen. Wetenschappelijke antwoorden op prangende vragen over of je je brein kan trainen en over…

The Faculty of Humanities is looking for a historical musicologist with a strong, international reputation and interdisciplinary outlook. Deadline: 10 September 2022.

On Wednesday, 22 September, at 17.00, this interdisciplinary research group kicks off a series of online seminars.

The University of Jena offers twelve PhD positions within the framework of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2792 ‘Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Deadline: 17 July 2022.

Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College The Hague

The Huizinga Institute research network “Archives of Power/The Power of Archives” will offer an interdisciplinary summer school on the various and complex origin stories of archives. The summer school will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 18 to 20 June 2024.

This postponed international workshop will now be held on a digital platform. It seeks to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to work on the interrelated aspects of ancient and early medieval walls in the Mediterranean and northwestern Europe throughout the first…

The Norwegian Institute in Rome organizes an interdisciplinary conference entitled "The Longue Durée of Cultural Heritage. Curation of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day". For more information: k.b.aavitsland@roma.uio.no. Paper proposals can be submitted to the same email address until 15 May…

Hoe kleine stappen tot grote veranderingen kunnen leiden: dat was het thema van het Leidse Onderwijsfestival. Studenten en docenten kwamen op 9 mei samen in Scheltema om ervaringen te delen over onderwijsvernieuwing.

On Thursday the 8th of June and Friday the 9th of June, the University of Groningen will be organising an interdisciplinary conference called ‘Facets of Feeling’. Through relevant historical case studies, we will analyse the universality of emotions and test the proposed theory. Additionally, we will…

This symposium (May 22) will explore topics such as the loss of and damage done to medieval manuscripts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through an interdisciplinary set of papers. Speakers will highlight projects aimed at identifying and rehabilitating damaged manuscripts and archives, and…

As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate for the research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. This opportunity is funded by the administrative…

Mmmonk and Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (UGent) will host the second edition of Mmmonk school in the autumn of 2023. Mmmonk School offers lessons for advanced beginners about the medieval book. It is an interdisciplinary practice-focused programme about medieval Flemish manuscripts.…

The International Reynard Society studies the role of animals in the European literature of the Middle Ages and its afterlife. It focuses especially on beast epics, fables, and fabliaux. The 24th international colloquium of the Society – Of Foxes and Fish: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Animal…

The University of Groningen is organizing a summer school on the topic of Medieval “Lived Religion” this summer. In this interdisciplinary summer school Masters and PhD students will be challenged by leading specialists dealing with textual and material sources of medieval religious cultures. They will…

This conference explores how reading experiences were shaped both by producers and users of vernacular books. By adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective (combining book history, literary history, art history, religious studies, and history of knowledge) it aims to contribute to the…

Op 8 februari vond de aftrap van de door Medical Delta georganiseerde Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab: Sustainable Hospitals plaats. Van inzicht in de milieu-impact van gezondheidsdataopslag tot het verminderen van medicijnverspilling in de operatiekamer, de projecten raken uiteenlopende aspecten van de…

Join us in Canterbury and online on the 13th and 14th June for the eleventh annual MEMS Festival at the University of Kent. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference. Deadline for abstracts, 4th of April.

This Spring School will pay attention to a wide range of performances in history, from political gatherings, religious rituals, and courtroom proceedings to theatre, concerts, and dance. It combines a focus on the medieval and early modern period with an interdisciplinary perspective, attending to the…

This international workshop seeks to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to work on the interrelated aspects of ancient and early medieval walls in the Mediterranean and northwestern Europe throughout the first millennium CE. The keynote address will be given by Hendrik…

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given…

On Friday 23 September 2016 the Leiden Complex Networks Network day, the LCN2 day, will take place in Leiden.

Workshop, 21-22 June On 21-22 June, Dr. C.V. Weeda (Leiden University) and Marie-Louise Leonard (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia) organize a workshop on Worker's health and material environment in Port Cities. The workshop focuses on interdisciplinary discussion. ReMA-students are given the opportunity…

Ruthie Pliskin legt uit: mensen hebben een onbewuste voorkeur voor de huidige situatie. Dit fenomeen staat bekend als de status-quobias. Deze bias ervoor dat wanneer je probeert iemands wereldbeeld te veranderen, dit vaak leidt tot weerstand. Lees hierover en meer in de Volkskrant.

Het LGBT+ Network biedt een platform aan alle lesbische, homoseksuele, biseksuele, transgender, intersekse en queer medewerkers en studenten van de Universiteit Leiden.

Het Leiden Leadership Centre is een interdisciplinaire netwerkorganisatie. Als onderdeel van het Instituut Bestuurskunde van de Universiteit Leiden neemt het LLC een verbindende rol op zich door samen te werken met studenten, professionals uit de praktijk en wetenschappers vanuit verschillende disci…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION), Quantum Matter and Optics

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC), Chemical Biology & Immunology

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)

Als centrum voor migratieonderzoek biedt Leiden ruimte aan historici, economen, juristen, politicologen en antropologen om samen te werken. Experts onderzoeken wie migreert, waarom, en de impact op samenlevingen. Ze analyseren overheidsbeleid, de rol van media en hoe samenlevingen omgaan met etnische…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)