938 search results for “as a modernities and traditions” in the Public website
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Challenging the Buddha's Authority: How Buddhist Narrative Traditions Negotiate Religious Authority
Channi Li defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Award for modern study of Sumerian cuneiform by Bram Jagersma
Studying Sumerian grammar in your free time: Bram Jagersma did it. He described centuries-old Sumerian using a modern method he devised himself. For this PhD research he was awarded the De La Court Award for Independent Research by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW).
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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The Egalitarian Constitution
On 18 september 2018, Jonathan Price defended his doctoral thesis 'The Egalitarian Constitution'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. A.A.M. Kinneging.
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Enes SütütemizFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Partners
Links to related organisations, institutes, journals and archives.
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Gerrit van UitertFaculty of Humanities
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Close encounters of the third kind?
Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium, a bone story
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Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth
Barbarism: from the 18th century to the present.
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Indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property
Challenges for the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, traditional cultural expressions, and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in the international scenario.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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The monastery rules : buddhist monastic organization in pre-modern Tibet
This study discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan societies and how that position was informed by Buddhist monastic ideology.
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The Heirs Of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research…
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Imaging and Imagining Palestine: Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens, 1918–1948
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948).
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries and answers the following questions: who provided public facilities in urban communities and in which ways did public amenities change in the period between 1500 and 1800?
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Fighting monopolies, defying empires 1500-1750: a comparative overview of free agents and informal empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman
How did “free agents” (entrepreneurs operating outside of the myriad of interests of the centralized, state-sponsored monopolies) in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire react to the creation of colonial monopolies (royal monopolies and chartered companies) by the central states in the Early Modern…
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Vacancy: Postdoc Early Modern History (Limerick)
The University of Limerick (Ierland) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to explore aspects of nonconformity and deviance in the early modern world of learning. Deadline for proposals: May 11.
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Marriage traditions and the stem family in ancient Egypt: a study of marriage contracts, social structure and family life
On Wednesday 11 June 2025 Steffie van Gompel successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic
Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017
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PhD research
LIAS staff has a strong track record in supervising internationally competitive PhD research in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, and the study of religion. Our graduates go on to work in a range of professional fields, academic and other. This page provides information for prospective and current…
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Are modern humans simply bad at smoking?
Scientist looked for the genetic footprint of fire use in our genes, but found that our prehistoric cousins - the Neanderthals - and even the great apes seem better at dealing with the toxins in smoke than modern humans.
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Jos BazelmansFaculty of Archaeology
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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The skeleton as a source of information
Bones hold a wealth of information about a person’s life, revealing details about where they came from, how old they were when they died and what diseases they may have had. Scientists can use this data to piece together aspects of an individual's life, offering valuable insights that can help address…
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ForSeaDiscovery - Forest resources for Iberian empires: ecology and globalization in the age of discovery
An interdisciplinary and innovative research group combining History, underwater archaeology, GIS and wood provenancing methods.
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Trick, trap, treason: conspiracy theories on Turkey's internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
On Thursday 29 January 2026 Uğur Derin successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Taking courses as a guest student
If you pay statutory tuition fees and are registered at another Dutch higher education institution, you can take one or more courses at Leiden University.
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Direitos negados, patrimônios roubados
Desafios para a proteção dos conhecimentos tradicionais, dos recursos genéticos e das expressões culturais tradicionais dos povos indígenas no cenário internacional
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing from the photos; women rarely obtained PhDs 50 years ago. And this article is about that group, the PhD candidates between 1966 and 1972, who were invited…
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Weishuo LiFaculty of Archaeology
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TAFL Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
From Tuesday 6 January till Tuesday 15 January 2026, NVIC organizes a new edition of the TAFL course. This intensive, interactive course is developed for (future) teachers of Arabic. It addresses both the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a foreign language as well as the underlying linguistic…
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Courses
“Courses” offers interested scholars and students open-access course material which can be used in class.
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Vacancy: PhD Candidate in Medieval / Early Modern Intellectual History (RU)
Radboud University is looking for a PhD researcher who will investigate the afterlife of medieval thought in early modern Europe through the study of concrete instances of intellectual transfer, for instance the appropriation of specific medieval authors or early modern revaluations of specific themes…
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Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language
The CNaVT exam is the official, international exam of Dutch as a Foreign Language for all who learn Dutch all over the world. The Catholic University of Leuven organizes the exam. The Dutch Language Union has commissioned this collaboration.
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Crime and gender in Bologna, 1600-1796
The central aim is examining gender differences in recorded crime, particularly in relation to interpersonal violence, in early modern Bologna.
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Men with a Mission: Informal Accountability Practices
How did nineteenth century scholars evaluate each other and each other’s work through more or less informal practices of peer review?
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Ying-ting WangFaculty of Humanities
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Maia CasnaFaculty of Archaeology
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Cora Tabea LederFaculty of Archaeology