1,228 search results for “history of science and the over” in the Student website
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia Rettore MicheliFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences publishes advice on dignity and respect in academia
If universities and research institutions want to tackle unacceptable behaviour in academia, they must shift their focus from dealing with complaints to preventing such behaviour in the first place. This is what the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has concluded. It has therefore…
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Faizal RiantoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Julia FolzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marloes van Moort
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ana Cristina Arcos MarinFaculty of Science
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Chengyi LiuFaculty of Science
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Anniek KortleveFaculty of Science
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Eiko FriedFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Eric JorinkFaculty of Humanities
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Rick van Well
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rachel PlakFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Judith SchomakerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Agnes SchneiderFaculty of Archaeology
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Jan Michiel OttoFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Jojanneke van der ToornFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rene KleijnFaculty of Science
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‘Materiality, Religion, and the Environment’: L*CeSAR’s second workshop
On Thursday, the 19th of March 2026, students and staff had the chance to partake in the second full-day workshop organized by the Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Religions (L*CeSAR). This edition was centered on the role of the environment in relation to religion in antiquity.
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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From solar panels to tables made from old jackets: University opens its doors on Heritage Open Days
The theme of the Heritage Open Days Leiden on 10 and 11 September is sustainability. At four University locations guides will talk about the history of the buildings and how they have been renovated. And there is a first: tours in sign language.
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Room for everyone at a sun-drenched EL CID
Thousands of first-year students and hundreds of mentors kicked off the EL CID on Monday morning. This year for the first time, the introduction week of Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied Sciences was also open for students of Regional Training Centre mboRijnland and the Leiden Instrument…
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’
In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Beibei YuanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Cynthia van Vonno
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Roos van der Haer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hans Oversloot
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Geert-Jan KroesFaculty of Science
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Marcellus UbbinkFaculty of Science
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Francesco BudaFaculty of Science
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Maria Spirova
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Andrea Reyes ElizondoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sander van KasterenFaculty of Science
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Frank de Zwart
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jeroen CodeeFaculty of Science
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Hannah KuhnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Josh RobisonFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Constance Maly
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Neeltje BlankensteinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Cécile Pick
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marieke van der Maden
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences