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About our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities offers an inspiring international working environment with room for diversity and innovation to staff and students from home and abroad.
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
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Interviews with students and lecturers
We interviewed lecturers and students about their experiences with courses on sustainability.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for the MA Ancient History at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
- Educational Sciences & Teacher Training
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Philosophy Colloquium “The Land of Old Age” Boredom versus Alienation
Conference
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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When Dionysus Lands on Erin: Greek Tragedy on Irish Grounds
PhD defence
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Reconstructing non-standard varieties and their speakers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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Experience Day African Studies 28 November
Study information
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Opening of Academic Year on sustainability: optimism and criticism go hand in hand
The theme of the Opening of the Academy Year on 4 September was sustainability and how the university could take the lead as a change agent. How is it going about this and what else can it do? There was also room for a critical note.
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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Devin DeWeese will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in September 2016
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University Bloomington, will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor between 5-17 September 2016. Professor DeWeese will deliver a guest lecture on Monday, 12 September (Lipsius 148, 3pm) and a masterclass on Friday, 16 September within the Central Asia initiative at Leiden Uni…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Beyond iced coffee and face masks: ‘True self-care is about emotional awareness and living according to your values’
In hun klinische stage leren Psychologiestudenten mentale steun bieden aan anderen, maar hoe zorgen zij als toekomstige therapeut ook voor zichzelf? Met video’s, podcasts en een panel wil Kelly Ziemer haar studenten de nodige zelfzorg-skills bijbrengen.
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities
Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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Alumnus Chris Colijn on his traineeship at a think tank, his master’s degree and advice for other graduates
What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his master’s in Russian and Eurasian Studies, in combination with a bustling traineeship for “Raam of Rusland”, a think tank, focusing on Russian and Ukrainian politics, economy and culture.…
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Wetenschapscongres leiderschap
Conference
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Nacht van de Digitale Veiligheid
Festival
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
- Volume 7 (2012)
- Current Volume (19)
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Van de Waal Lecture 2025: Shared heritage or cultural appropriation? The Iko-Schmutzer sculptures
Alumni event, Lezing
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
- Public graduation presentations
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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
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Blog Papyrus Questions
What can papyri teach us about antiquity? Students of papyrology in Leiden try to answer questions about life in antiquity aided by papyri from our collection.
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.