Academics are increasingly facing threats, harassment and hate speech following public appearances. The Dutch universities – united in the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) – is now adopting a number of national measures, from a zero-tolerance policty to psychosocial help for vic…

Education

Simon Willmetts is Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He is a cultural historian interested in the history of secrecy, intelligence, surveillance and digital privacy. His research focusses upon the wider social and cultural impact of secret intelligence…

Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold…

Bleda Düring is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

The clever young people at the National ThinkTank who tackle an urgent societal problem each year include two Leiden alumni this autumn: Jiao Harmsen and Jort van Dalen. They will spend at least four months getting to grips with the topic of ‘education’.

The first results of the National Student Survey (Nationale Studenten Enquête: NSE) reveal that students at Leiden University are satisfied with their study programme.

Lucas Gahrmann is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Michael Newton is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Danny Jol has been employed as a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure and as a PhD candidate by the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University since 2024.

S.J. (Sil) Douma MA LLB (2001) studied Classics at Leiden University and obtained his degree cum laude in 2024.

Brian McGarry is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. His research covers general international law topics, as well as the design, practice, and conceptual coherence of international courts and tribunals.

Hans Theunissen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Nina Jaspers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Gabe van Beijeren teaches courses in Classical Chinese and assists in teaching courses in Chinese history and Chinese philosophy and religion.

Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time. Joost Welten's latest book reveals how, during the reign of William I, the elite danced around his throne both literally and figuratively.

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

Bruno Allahissem is a PhD candidate at the Institute of History and the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH).

Anisa Nuranisa is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Daphne Engel is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.

José María achieved a BA degree in Ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and an MA in Anthropological Sciences at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).

Koundja Mayoubila is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Pichayapat Naisupap is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Brian Shaev is a Lecturer at the institute for History.

Keiko Yoshioka is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and Head of the Japanese language programme. She specialises in Japanese language and second language acquisition, with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy, multimodal interaction—especially gestures—Japanese ideophones,…

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.

Lecture, Studium Generale

Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in…

Rachel Schats is Assistant Professor in Human Osteoarchaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.

Assistant professor Fenneke Sysling spoke in National Geographic about the return of the ‘Java Man’ to Indonesia.

As of 1 September , Karel Berkhoff has been appointed professor by special appointment in Ukrainian History. In this position, made possible in part by the KNAW, he will focus primarily on dark moments in recent Ukrainian history: the persecutions that have taken place in the first half of the twentieth…

Gina van Ling is a lecturer at the BA International Studies and is affiliated with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). She has a background in Sinology and Law.

Lieke Smits is a researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

I am a PhD researcher working within the CARECENTURY project, where I explore the history of care in Central Eastern Europe. My research focuses on socialist Hungarian childcare practices and examines how communist ideology shaped perceptions of appropriate child-rearing and motherhood. Previously,…

I am a PhD Candidate in the CARECENTURY project, studying how how material objects related to childcare, such as textiles, midwifery tools, and toys were informed by shifting socio-political dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. My research focuses on gender, reproduction, and…

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

Marion Elenbaas is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

My research has focused on religion and power in medieval western and central Europe. I currently work comparatively, bringing in Japan, and focusing on religion and armed violence. I believe in good mentoring of students (to teach as I was taught in the USA).

Following to the Romanian translation of his book Nationalism, associate professor Eric Storm was interviewed by Revista 22. Several other media published reviews of his book.

Miel Groten is a lecturer at the Institute for History.