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• About us Van Vollenhoven Institute

  The VVI seeks to develop and disseminate socio-legal knowledge and theory regarding the interaction between law, governance and society. More specifically, the Institute studies the emergence, functioning, and evolution of legal institutions.

• Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History Research output

  Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…

• Political legitimacy in Chinese history : the case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535) Research output

  Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.

• Signs on Paper: Unlocking the Histories of Sign Languages with AI HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  This PhD project investigates how automatic sign language recognition technology can be further developed to analyse static images and textual descriptions of signs.

• Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards Research project

  Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards

• An empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman Empire Research project

  The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in the provinces of the Roman Empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration.

• BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648). Research project

  Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

• AIV calls for renewed cooperation with the Global South News - 17 September 2025

  Countries in the Global South, including India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Nigeria, are gaining increasing influence in the world economy and in international decision-making. The Netherlands and Europe should strengthen ties with these countries to avoid being sidelined, according to the urgent advice…

• Unravelling the genes responsible for life history traits in the giant woody cabbage (Brassica oleracea) Research project

  Which genes are involved in woodiness and associated traits such as drought tolerance, flowering time, stem elongation, life span, and plant herbivory, and how do these gene regulatory pathways overlap?

• trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa News - 13 March 2023

  On 8 March 2023 Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Leiden, published a monograph on Global Trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa.

• Sports Diplomacy The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

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  Peter Pels Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Return to the Interactive Past. The Interplay of Video Games and Histories Research output

  A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.

• Podcast History Roundup: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion Research output

  In a podcast episode of 'New Books in History' Claire Weeda talks about her book 'Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion'.

• A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses Research output

  This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

• Fortress. Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 Research output

  The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion?

• Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better' News - 16 May 2018

  Enya Seguin is an idealist. This 22-year-old alumna of Leiden University College in The Hague wants to make it possible for patients in Africa to have access to doctors anywhere in the world via an app. She is not deterred by the many problems and pitfalls she meets along the way.

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  Ajeng Arainikasih PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Associates Centre for Intercultural Philosophy

  Associates of Leiden University Center for Intercultural Philosophy

• Student life South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)

• Information activities South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)

  Do you want to know more about the Bachelor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, and experience what it’s like to study in Leiden? Leiden University offers you a variety of introductory activities to help you with your choice of study.

• Fire and grazers in the West African savanna Research output

  Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

• Demarest, Are Nigerian lawmakers incentivised to direct public resources to their voters? Research output

  It is often said that the links between political parties in Africa and their voters are clientelist, rather than programmatic. The familiar image is that of African ‘big men’, displaying personal wealth while being respected and celebrated in the community for sharing their riches. Yet, political scientist…

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Political Legitimacy under Debate: Democracy and Authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s Research project

  Debates on political legitimacy in Dutch parliament in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s

• Julia Sloth-Nielsen received A-rating from South African National Research Foundation News - 22 December 2020

  Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen has received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation in South Africa, where she holds a Chair in Public Law at the University of the Western Cape.

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  Costanza Franceschini Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• African languages archives Research project

  This collaborative research group (CRG) facilitates the synergies of researchers engaged with African languages and documentation of texts conducted in East Africa, paying particular attention to ‘endangered archives’ and ‘endangered languages’.

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• UNravelling the socioeconomic and environmental Impacts of Circularity in Latin America (UNICA) Research project

  A MSCA Global Fellowship that aims to explore the socioeconomic and environmental implications of a Latin America circularity transition, and its impact on the EU and global economy.

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  Simon Kemper PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian Research output

  In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.

• Meet our staff History (research) (MA)

• Asia Research Dossier

  Engagement between Asia and Europe is increasing. If these continents want to build a lasting relationship, they need to understand each other better in the economic, socio-cultural, historical and legal arena. Researchers from Leiden have already contributed to the body of knowledge on past and present…

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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities