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• Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' News - 14 October 2025

  A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…

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  Maarja Seire PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martine Bruil University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Surya Suryadi Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul van Trigt Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Simon Kemper PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' News - 15 January 2024

  Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'Canon of the Dutch Underexposed Past', which…

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  Eefke de Haan Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jonathan Stökl University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The History of Hebrew Event - 3 December 2025

  Lecture

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  Michiel van Groesen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Indira Huliselan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jan Wim Buisman Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

• Centre for the History of European Integration Seminar Series Event
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  Junjie Huang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Giliam de Valk Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Internships and research in the Netherlands Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

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• Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’ News - 16 September 2025

  The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…

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  Verena Meyer University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Guido Maschhaupt Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Mehmet Kentel Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amza Adam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Antje Wessels Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Annas Rabbani External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

• History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ News - 22 March 2021

  Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…

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  Ying Zhang Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anne Por PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea News - 20 October 2022

  In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.

• Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities Event - 20 April 2026

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

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  Walter Nkwi Gam Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘A damaged ecosystem can’t be "fixed" in 3 years’ News - 22 January 2026

  Often landscape restoration is seen as a quick technical fix, when a long-term and more sensitive approach is necessary. Within her PhD research, conducted over the past five years in South Africa, Ancois de Villiers explored how we can change this approach. ‘A damaged ecosystem can’t be "fixed" in…

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  Alain Wijffels Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jonathan Powell Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Limin Teh University Lecturer Modern Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pratika Dewi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Floris de Ruiter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kamila Smagulova PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Caroline Schep PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ajeng Arainikasih PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cynthia Vialle PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk te Velde Interim Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities