The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…

Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.

Are you interested in taking courses or doing research in a different country? The Science International Office is your first point of contact when going abroad as part of your study programme!

Her part-time job as a city guide in Dordrecht opened Lotte Hamm's eyes: not business administration, but history was her dream study. This semester she starts her bachelor's degree.

Casper van Dijk is a PhD candidate researching the transformation of military as complex adaptive systems. His dissertation, Military Metamorphosis: Warfare in the Northern Netherlands, 1425–1560, reinterprets late medieval warfare through the lens of emergence and complex systems theory, offering an…

Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

Carola Hein is Professor Water, Ports and Historic Cities at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

The results of the National Student Survey (NSE) are now available. In 2024, students from the Faculty of Humanities were satisfied across the board. The expertise of lecturers was rated particularly positively.

Master's student Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues is the winner of the KHMW Brewer Thesis Prize for History. He was awarded the prize for his research on donatism.

Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…

On 10 June, students and staff from all the Dutch universities will go on strike against the government’s proposed budget cuts. The day after the strike, on 11 June, the House of Representatives will debate the Spring Budget Memorandum, which includes the proposed cuts. The university supports this…

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

Mariana Gaba is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

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

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.

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Nestor Marin Bravo is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Tomás Díaz is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Melinda Susanto is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. Her current research investigates the circulations of medical knowledge and goods between the Indian Ocean and the early modern Dutch Republic.

Nicole Pereira Ríos is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Felipe Cousiño is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Macarena Alegria Garcia is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History

Mamadjibeye is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Carla Cisternas Guasch is a PhD candidate at the department of Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. She is also a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Arts at the Universidad Mayor, Chile.

Muhammad Asyrafi is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Juliët Tinebra is a lecturer at International Studies and an external PhD candidate at Latin American Studies.

Allience Mango Kubota is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Daan Stremmelaar is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Cristian Saavedra Bastía is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Theresa St John is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Nadia Rijas is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Jasper van der Steen is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.

Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…

Surya Suryadi is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Nadia Bouras is a historian with a specialization in the history of Moroccan migration. Holding a PhD in history from Leiden University, she serves as an assistent professor in social and migration history at the same institution. Bouras is closely affiliated with NIMAR, the Netherlands Institute in…

Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic. Her research concentrates on recovering the experiences of Muslims and non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, using the vast stores of radically under-used documents surviving from the early Islamic world. Professor Sijpesteijn is PI of the NWO funded VICI research…

Why are the majority of our national holidays based around Christian festivities? Arabist Maurits Berger talks about this in an article on Ruetir.

The first results of the National Student Survey (NSE) show that Leiden students are still satisfied with their degree programmes. On average they are slightly more satisfied than in 2021. Satisfaction with their lecturers and study guidance has also increased compared with 2021.

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Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.