270 search results for “early hominin” in the Student website
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Corrie BakelsFaculty of Archaeology
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Conference
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PhD Researcher Anastasia Nikulina Wins Nick Ryan Bursary Award 2021
To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International provides the annual Nick Ryan Bursary Award. The Nick Ryan Bursary Award winner is chosen from each year’s student paper presenters. The award goes towards the costs of attending the CAA Conference the following year, up to a…
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Sunni constitutional theory in light of an early hadith about obedience
Lecture
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Processes of Dying of the Greeks from the Hellenistic Period to the Early Empire
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Celine OldenhageFaculty of Humanities
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Magda RafaelICLON
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Joanna GreenlandFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Travis Bowman
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucas Vanhevel
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Jasper DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte FikkersFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne WoutsLeiden University Libraries
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Theo van der MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Reinier BaarsenFaculty of Humanities
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Irene O'DalyFaculty of Humanities
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Jef SchaepsLeiden University Libraries
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
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The Expansion of Sugar Plantations in Early Modern Java, c. 1740-1780
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Keynote Address: The Kindness of Others: Jews, Christians and Early Childhood Care in Medieval Europe
Lecture
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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“Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935
Lecture
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New publication investigates curious shift of 7th century burial practices
At the end of the 7th century something curious occurs in Northwestern Europe. Suddenly, people start burying the dead next to their dwellings instead of in communal cemeteries. Professor Frans Theuws recently published a book on this phenomenon. ‘We wanted to know if the study of these farmyard burials…
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022)
Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing came as a tremendous shock to her colleagues and friends at the Faculty of Archaeology and to colleagues and former students both in The Netherlands and…
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New research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…
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Annelieke HagenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf
Lecture
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Lieke BesFaculty of Archaeology
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Lisa LenderinkFaculty of Humanities