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In recent years, the world has turned its attention to the 'Indo-Pacific' due to the changing power dynamics in the region, alongside its growing geopolitical and geo-economic importance. The US 'pivot' and the EU's 'turn' to the Indo-Pacific are a recognition of the region's critical role in the world…

Join us for the ninth instalment of LAC’s Asia Academy as we delve deep into the heart of Indian democracy with Leiden University Associate Professor Nicolas Blarel. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are campaigning to be re-elected for a third five-year…

The Diplomacy of Global Affairs Research seminar series: internationally acknowledged guest researchers and faculty members deal with current research topics in diplomacy, international relations, global affairs, and political economy broadly conceived and target a broad audience through their interdisciplinary…

In the leadup to Russia's 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, many private and public attempts were made to warn the Russian leadership not to take this action. All these failed. Thereafter, deterring Russian use of WMD in Ukraine was prioritized, and at some future point following a ceasefire, deterring…

About the event Malaria represents a significant global health threat in our time, and may be a greater still challenge in the future alongside changes in climate, human mobility and residence patterns, and pathogen evolution. However, malaria is also a disease of great antiquity, and understanding…

Lecture

Full-day International Workshop

Roundtable

Conference, Workshop

This presentation intends to understand democracy in late-1950s Japan through studying post-war new education, notably the evolution of educational and learning activities directed at mothers. Post-war Japanese mothers were expected to take on the role of bearers of a democratic society and assumed…

“The company promised an elephant but finally gave us a hen.” This is the metaphor that a villager living close to an immense agro-industrial plantation in northern Senegal employed to capture the gap between the commitments of the company and its actual achievements. This talk by Dr. Marie Gagné analyses…

Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture

Education, Organisation

2025 was a year full of impact and milestones for FGGA: From a record number of graduates and new programmes to international collaborations, prestigious awards and research that pushes boundaries and provides insight into current challenges.

From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The three universities in Zuid-Holland are abuzz with AI research in the field of ports and maritime. Three researchers explain. Part two in a series of five…

Space telescope Euclid is capable of unravelling the secrets of the universe. That is what the images published by ESA today show, according to astronomers working with the telescope's data. The images exceed all expectations. Scientists within the Euclid consortium, including astronomers Henk Hoekstra…

Arts and culture

Conference

How do humans become? My basic thesis is simple: Humans become through their creative engagement with the material world. We are plastic creatures inextricably intertwined with the plasticity of forms that we make. Humans construct signs, draw lines and leave memory traces. Importantly, they maintain…

Picturing West Lake explores how a pictorial tradition in the representation of an iconic place was emplaced, fashioned, refashioned, transmuted and transmitted over time to convey cultural value, historical memory, political ideology, and artistic expression. Adjacent to the…

OSINT for Ukraine will mark its second anniversary in 2024 and is eager to commemorate the occasion by hosting an engaging event/symposium. Our aim is to foster a collaborative environment where experts and enthusiasts can converge to delve into the nuances of OSINT, open source information, and the…

Registration is not necessary. For more information, feel free to send an email to o.spijkers@luc.leidenuniv.nl. The lecture is part of the courses on Global Security and Collective Action and Sovereignty and Statehood. All other interested persons, including all LUC students and staff, are cordially…

Arts and culture

Do we have a standard model of cosmology? The origin and evolution of galaxies are two of the most actively researched areas in astrophysics. At present, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model of Cosmology is the golden standard for our understanding of the origin of the Universe. But does this model actually…

Lecture

Lunch Seminar

Registration is not necessary. For more information, feel free to send an email to o.spijkers@luc.leidenuniv.nl. The lecture is part of the courses on Global Security and Collective Action and Sovereignty and Statehood. All other LUC students and staff are cordially invited to join us.

Lecture

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

In Yemen, the multiplication of pious visitations to tombs (ziyārāt) between the end of the 6th/12th century and the 9th/15th century, as elsewhere in the Muslim worlds, went along with the emergence of many blessed characters and lineages associated with sainthood (walāya). The contemporary Yemeni…

Lecture, CHiLL series

The rise of authoritarianism, the strengthening of the radical right, and the role of the EU in defending democracy—these are just a few of the issues causing concern today. Is the EU capable of defending democratic values within the Union and beyond its borders? In an interview from the Lithuanian…

On 8 February 2022 the theme of Leiden University's 447th Dies Natalis will be innovating and connecting: the direction of our new University strategy that we will be launching that day As a University, we are part of an increasingly complex society that is more reliant than ever before on…

Lecture, Studium Generale

Conference

The Schoof government, which has since assumed a caretaker role, presented its coalition agreement last year, followed later by its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly (see updates below) look at the consequences of what…