On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.

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Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar

For the annual Week of Classics, Dr Marike van Aerde and her team made a documentary about their research project Routes of Exchange, Roots of Connectivity. In the film the team touches upon the interactions of Greeks and Romans with the wider ancient world, ranging from the African kingdom of Aksum…

Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…

Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After years of research, it now appears that the location, close to a ford in the river, was a site for offerings. Another interesting fact is that the coins…

Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

Professor Ton Liefaard is Full Professor of Children’s Rights and Head of the Department of Child Law and Health Law. He has held the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden University since 2012. Ton Liefaard served as Vice Dean of Leiden Law School between 2018 and 2023.

Marion Pluskota is assistant professor in Social and Economic History specialized in crime history and the history of prostitution/sex work.

Bleda Düring is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jaris Darwin is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Title research: Iran’s Transcendental Legitimacy of Law

Joseph (Joe) Finnerty is an Assistant Professor in European Human Rights Law at the Europa Institute, Leiden University. His primary research interest is the regulation of restrictions on rights and freedoms, particularly the purposes that are permitted or prohibited. In his research, Joe focuses on…

Title research: Persian Echoes: Irish Nationalism, Politics, and Orientalism in the Works of Vallancey, Moore, Mangan, and McCarthy

Amit is an environmental social scientist interested in the multidimensional issues at the convergence of environmental change and rural societal dynamics. He studies the political ecology of land use change in jhum (swidden/shifting cultivation) landscapes in Garo Hills, Northeast India. His emphasis…

Title research: The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: A Comparison under the International and Islamic Laws of War

Jack Tillman is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Title research: Crime Victim’s Rights to Restitution in Indonesia: The Role of Public Prosecutor

I study the functional genetics of egg development time in the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), with the aim of determining the adaptive potential of this trait in wild insect populations in response to climate change.

John Sunday Ojo is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Intelligence in the Global South (GLOBALINT) research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research focuses on the political economy of armed conflict, concentrating on non-state armed groups, including both jihadist…

Title research: Judicial independence in the context of accession to the European Union.

Lydia Lois van de Fliert is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Ester Iking is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title thesis: ‘Het activeren van pensioendeelnemers‘.

Weishuo Li (Arthur) is a PhD candidate at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Jennifer Swerida is Assistant Professor in the Archaeology of West Asia.

Joep is conducting research into the effectiveness of subsidy provision.

Title research: EU rule of law promotion in the Western Balkans through judicial reforms: strengthening the rule of law through the EU driven judicial vetting process in Albania

Róisín Lambert is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Michael Liu is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society.

Marleen Barth is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title thesis: 'Dwang en drang in de polder. Een onderzoek naar institutioneel draagvlak voor zorg- en dwangwetgeving in Nederland

Title research: Addressing business-related economic, social and cultural rights violations in post-conflict transitional justice: A case study on the extractive industries’ role during conflict and transition.

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Title research: Violent political attacks by state-hired organised crime actors: towards legal resilience in the Netherlands

Luísa Pinto e Netto is an assistant professor at Leiden University specialized in fundamental rights, with a particular focus on social rights. Following her career as a state attorney in Brazil and a PhD on the development of fundamental rights, she is building a research agenda in the Netherlands…

Rabin Baldewsingh is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title thesis: ‘Sarnámi, een taal in verdrukking Ontstaan en ontwikkeling van een bijzonder sociolinguïstiek fenomeen in een multicultureel context‘.

Title research: The Role of Partnerships in Supporting and Advancing the Corporate Responsibility to Respect human Rights in Supply Chains.

Irene Urrutia Schroeder is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Daniel Daineko is affiliated to the department of Jurisprudence as researcher/teacher.

Title research: The status of the human intellect, according to Blaise Pascal. By articulating the above, I should better understand why Pascal appears sometimes to be a relativist concerning (human) nature, truth, and law.

Title research: Do the ECtHR judgments and decisions dealing with applications that concern unrecognized states have an impact on the political process of conflict resolution? If yes, is this impact positive or negative?

Devon Graves is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Title research: The hermeneutics of radicalization. A philosophical-theological perspective

Title research: Digital Labour Platforms and the Upholding of Fundamental Labour Rights.