University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at the University. Some the students and workshop leaders reflect on the busy morning.

From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…

Ruth Alison Clemens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research project is titled 'Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola' and is part of the NWO Startersbeurs project 'Tracing Players Playing Traces: Non/Human Music…

Steven Lauritano is an art and architectural historian, and assistant professor at Leiden University. His research examines the intersection of architecture and antiquarianism, the history of architectural preservation, and the exchanges that have animated architectural-history-writing and design. Before…

Marie Kolbenstetter is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Masoud Kiani is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

Joost Augusteijn is Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History and Programme Chair of the BA International Studies and the Joint MA European Politics and Society.

I am a university lecturer in English-language literature and culture, specialising in the history and development of Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction, and recently also Noir, from about 1750-present. In my research I explore social and ethical questions relating to these genres.

Anna Dlabacova is Associate professor in Book History and PI (Principal Investigator) of the ERC-Starting Grant project ‘Pages of Prayer. The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]’. She is also Vice Chair of the COST Action PRAYTICIPATE - Participation…

Maria Carmen Parafita Couto studies the impact of bilingualism and language contact on language structure, mostly the syntax of code-switching.

Alisa van de Haar is one of three humanities scholars to win a KNAW Early Career Award this year. The university lecturer of Ancient French Literature is receiving the award for her innovative research on multilingualism and migration. 'It would be nice to use this to set up a project with students.…

In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.

In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Anouk van der Weiden, together with a team of colleagues and students, developed a module on critical reading, application, and writing. 'Students often think: who am I to criticise a published…

In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.

David Home Valenzuela is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Carlos Rilling Tenorio is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

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…

Chisato Makishima (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Finn Lindo-Dunn is a PhD candidate in the NWO-funded VICI project Land, Space, Power: Landscapes of the Early Caliphate, led by Prof. Petra Sijpesteijn. His research examines place-making through literature, with a particular focus on how the landscapes of North Africa became ‘Islamic’. His interests…

I am a PhD candidate at Leiden University supported by a CSC scholarship, working on an individual research project in Buddhist art history. My work explores the sensory history of Buddhist art with particular attention to affect theory, visual and narrative rhetorics, and the localisation of iconography.…

Bálint Honos (1999) is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg. He is researching community organization and Black citizenship in antebellum California (1812-1861).

Femke Fakkeldij is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg.

Goran Bouaziz is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Sam de Ruiter is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Carlos Campello Pereira Porto Soares is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).

Kexin Zheng is lecturer and PhD at the Institute for Area Studies.

Ranwa Alamsi is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Joanna Greenland is an External PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Özümcan Çekiç is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Miriam Waltz is assistant professor in gender justice and health technologies with a joint appointment between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and the African Studies Centre.

Benjamin Storme is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His main areas of specialization are phonology and experimental linguistics.

Nainunis Aulia Izza is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Tingyu Li is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Olli Littunen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Qinxin He is an education and research staff member and a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Xiaoqiang Meng is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Travis Bowman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Irina Ridzuan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Dastan Abdali is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Dr. Lieske Huits is a university lecturer at the Centre for Arts in Society.