My teaching focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy, including courses on on global justice, capitalism, power, resistance, and war.

Aliéksey Barreto Malheiros Vianna is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.

Vera works as an academic lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Universitas Tarumanagara. Prior to her academic profession, she worked as a lawyer in Jakarta, Indonesia. She mostly handled cases dealing with Government Administrative Procedures, properties, and private sectors. Vera completed her Bachelor…

Widya Naseva Tuslian is a Ph.D. candidate at Leiden Law School, jointly appointed by the VVI (Van Vollenhoven Institute) of Leiden Law School and the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies). Her research focuses on water governance and citizenship in Jakarta's urban…

Manon Carrere is a Research Assistant at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, where she works on RESOCIAL, an interdisciplinary project that investigates how digital technologies and social media shape human vulnerability and evaluates the adequacy of existing legal protections.

Adrien Martinet is Promovendus aan de Faculteit Archeologie.

Jorieke Manenschijn studied both law and philosophy in Nijmegen and Leiden. Jorieke joined the Department of Jurisprudence as a lecturer and researcher in October 2020.

In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?

Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.

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A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.

Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede fought for greater popular influence. Historian Dirk Alkemade reveals how this pioneer used radical means to shape Dutch democracy.

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.…

Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Andreas Hofmann is a Lecturer in European Union Studies at Leiden University. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne. Before joining the European Union Studies team in Leiden, he worked at the University of Gothenburg and the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science…

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

Lucas Vanhevel is an external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Maha Ali is a doctoral researcher exploring the role of Asian states at the United Nations, within the European Research Council (ERC) funded project -

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

Daniel Pantoja is a visiting PhD candidate at the Insitute for Philosophy.

Reynier Pet is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

Albert Logtenberg is an assistant professor at ICLON.

Hein Drop is an external PhD candidate / guest at the Institute for History.

Mily Crevels is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Reinier Baarsen is Professor by special appointment of History of the Decorative Arts at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Timothy de Zeeuw is lecturer and PhD candidate at International Studies and PhD candidate at LIAS.

Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.

The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…

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Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.

The Executive Board proposes to take the decision to suspend the existing institutional student exchange programmes with two Israeli universities, and until further notice not to engage in any new exchange programmes with Israeli universities that have comparable links with the Israeli military (the…

Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

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The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.

Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…

During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.

Title research: The Evolving Privacy laws: How privacy laws adapt to high-paced social and technological change