Freie Universität Berlin, one of Leiden University’s Una Europa alliance partners, is hosting an International Staff Training Week from 22-26 June – and you’re invited! Apply by 26 January for one of 11 parallel tracks. Alumni engagement, open…

I am interested in reconstructing the environments of the past and studying how these changes led to migration and evolution. Studying past ecosystems and climate change can provide us with tools to tackle current crises.

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has started vaccinating staff from its intensive care, emergency and COVID departments. Junior doctor Christianne van Lieshout received the first jab on 6 January.

Following the migration of expense claim data from SAP to BAS Insite, the personal data of staff who submitted expense claims in the past years was temporarily searchable for university staff for a few hours on 5 January. After Mare notified the ISSC, the breach was resolved that same afternoon; that…

Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.

Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.

In the most general sense Judith Pollmann’s work concerns the question how people and societies in the past negotiated change. This has resulted in work on early modern identity formation, the history of the early modern Netherlands and the Dutch Revolt; the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe…

Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.

Bram Caers is an Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch literature (up to 1600). His research interest include (urban) historiography in the vernacular, early modern manuscript culture and the interplay between manuscript and print, epic literature, rhetoricians, and medievalism. He teaches courses on…

Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies.

Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.

The first staff symposium on Student Wellbeing – from abstract idea to practical tips – will take place on 15 March 2022. Why have we chosen a practical approach and what can you expect? Sonja Wagenaar (SEA) is project manager and she tells us more about it.

Erika is a PhD candidate at LIAS (Leiden Institute for Area Studies) and her project is fully funded by The Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation (HWS). Erika is interested in the design, trade, and consumption of Chinese material culture in early modern Europe. Her project focuses on silks and papers made…

Michael Herzfeld is a researcher at the Institute for Area Studies.

Leonor Faber-Jonker (1987) is a historian, author, and artist. She was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017).

Laurens van Apeldoorn is an assistant professor of tax law at Leiden University.

The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker as Professor of Dutch History in the World, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute of History (Faculty of Humanities).

All research performed in the Leiden University Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is ethically reviewed by 1 of 3 ethical review committees.

To ensure safety in the university, it is important that everyone is familiar with the protocol for (medical) emergencies. That’s why we’d like to share this brief reminder.

Liesbet Nyssen is PhD candidate at LIAS.

Diversity and inclusion are core values for Leiden University, and our aim is to offer all staff and students equal opportunities. As the University lacks adequate information about the cultural diversity of our staff, this spring we are taking part for the first time in the Cultural Diversity Barometer.…

Timur Khan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Elsa Saez Jara is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Liliana Morawietz Yanez is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Joaquin Fernandez Abara is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Gabriel Veppo de Lima is a Scholarship PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

Thijs Brocades Zaalberg is Professor by Special Appointment of Military History at the Leiden University Institute for History and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…

Dimitris Kastritis is a lecturer at International Studies and PhD candidate at Institute for Philosophy

Li-fan Lee is a PhD candidate of intercultural philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University since July 2022. He is interested in human culture and philosophical thoughts in their most general sense across temporal and geographical boundaries, and is dedicated to clear-eyed philosophical…