249 search results for “roman family” in the Student website
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Exhibition featuring 50 years of Leiden’s archaeological excavations in Oss
Leiden archaeologists have been conducting research with students and local archaeologists in Oss (in the province of Brabant) for 50 years. An exhibition at Leiden University shows how these finds tell the region’s story.
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Warja Tolstoj wins Ted Meijer prize
Warja Tolstoj, alumna Art History, has been awarded the 2021 edition of the Ted Meijerprijs. Named after the former director of the KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome), the prize is awarded yearly to the best MA/ReMa thesis or PhD in the Humanities.
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Go for a Minor and Summer School in Rome
Education
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‘Some think I’m too lightweight, others too highbrow’
Cornald Maas was able to ‘pioneer’ in Leiden. This Dutch Studies graduate, presenter, programme maker and publicist combined an active student life with studying hard.
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Nathaniel MartinFaculty of Science
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Anne-Laura van HarmelenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2023-2024
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar
Lecture, Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar and Ancient Worlds Network Lecture
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Get to know the new Faculty Council of Archaeology
Organisation
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Soldiers of Fortune at Home: Remarks on the Social and Economic Footprint of Cretan Mercenary Wealth in the Hellenistic Period
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
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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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to use muscles they didn’t even know they had.
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Strengthening European research networks: Archaeologist Miguel John Versluys honored with prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Professor Miguel John Versluys of Leiden University has been recognised with the esteemed Humboldt Research Award, a testament to his groundbreaking work in global archaeology, reception-studies and the deep history of globalisation. The award, granted by the Alexander von Humbold-Stiftung, celebrates…
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As many as a hundred ideas in minor Living Education Lab
Students presented the prototypes of educational tools they made in the first ten weeks of the new minor Living Education Lab. We asked two students and a teacher about their first experiences in this minor.
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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New Director of Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo wants to increase the institute’s visibility
Egyptologist Marleen De Meyer has been appointed the new Director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC). Dr De Meyer has worked for the institute, which promotes Egyptian, Dutch and Flemish collaboration in the field of education and research, since 2016.
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Humanities researchers publish a new journal issue inspired by times of crisis
The ninth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference has been published. This time the theme is ‘Reinventing Boundaries in Times of Crisis.’
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Artificial Intelligence Playing Ancient Games: Computational Techniques for Board Games Heritage
Lecture
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From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius
Middle East Studies Lecture
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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BABESCH Byvanck Lecture 2025
Lecture
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ALFA New Year’s lecture and drinks
Alumni event, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Joanita VroomFaculty of Archaeology
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Meijersprijzen en scriptieprijzen uitgereikt tijdens nieuwjaarsreceptie
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2022 zijn tijdens de facultaire nieuwjaarsreceptie de jaarlijkse Meijersprijzen en de scriptieprijzen uitgereikt.
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Education Blog Archaeology: Alex Geurds on an integrated Bachelor in Archaeology
In this series the Vice-Dean and portfolio holder of education in the board of the Faculty of Archaeology will reflect on the state of education. Posts can range from shedding light on current national shifts in the university landscape to arguments as to why it’s important to be timely with designing…
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The Processes of Dying of the Greeks from the Hellenistic Period to the Early Empire
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Profiling Objects, Finding Identities?
Lecture, Material Culture Talk
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At the Ends of the Earth?
Symposium
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Towards an Archaeology of Malaria
International Symposium on Malaria Studies
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Theopolitical Patchworks: Rule and Material Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Lecture, Research Seminar
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OSINT: From Theory, Intelligence to Evidence
Conference