545 search results for “as a modernities and traditions” in the Student website
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Do you buy your partner chocolates and roses? Fascination for American holidays explained
Buying chocolates as a sign of love, getting the best deals on Black Friday and putting on a spooky costume for Halloween. In recent years, these holidays and traditions have taken off in the Netherlands, even though they originated on the other side of the ocean. Why are we so excited about American…
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she will be appointed professor at Leiden University in addition to her current position as a professor in Rotterdam. Hilhorst discusses her field and this…
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Augustinus Lycklama à NijeholtFaculty of Medicine
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe -
Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Ester Iking
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rabin Baldewsingh
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Jeffrey JhanjanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Irena Kukric
Faculty of Humanities
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Marleen BarthFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Jooyoung Hwang
Faculty of Humanities
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Marleen Baba-Krieger
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ieke van DamICLON
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Stand as a candidate in the university elections!
The university elections will be held from 17 to 21 May 2021. Students and staff can shortly put themselves forward as candidates for the University Council, Faculty Councils or Department Councils.
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Spui CampusSpui 5, The Hague
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A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden
Lecture, Book launch event
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The battle over marriage in Indonesia
The Indonesian government has been trying to enforce marriage and divorce laws for some time. These efforts are encountering resistance from both local communities and the Indonesian Supreme Court. PhD candidate Al Farabi investigated where this resistance comes from.
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New University Sports Centre reaches highest point
In a topping out ceremony on Thursday 30 January, the new sports centre celebrated reaching its highest point and looked ahead to the future. The university will have a spacious and sustainable sports building by the start of 2026.
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
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Why standing as a candidate for University participation pays off
Do you want to promote the interests of students or staff? If you do, put yourself forward as a candidate for the University Council or the Faculty Council between 5 and 8 April. Two council members, PhD candidate Elisabeth Kerr and Law student Mante Kaaks, tell us about their experiences.
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Tatiana Vargas OrtizFaculty of Humanities
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Saniye InceFaculty of Humanities
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Stéphanie NoachFaculty of Humanities
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Jaap GoedegebuureFaculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de LeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Master's student of Arts and Culture develops own exhibition: 'A very enriching experience'
Many students dread writing a thesis. Master’s student Laura Robustella's practice-based thesis shows that it is well worth the effort. She developed an art exhibition based on her master’s thesis.
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‘Faculty should feel as comfortable as a living room’
What does the future of student welfare look like? Throughout this academic year, our faculty has been working hard to answer that question. Ruben van Gaalen, study coordinator, and Femke Weerdmeester, student of Dutch Language and Culture, look back on the past and towards the future.
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A quirky block of rubber as a calculator
PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called mechanical metamaterial is pushed in a specific way to change its shape. ‘With a very simple material, we might be able to do simple calculations in…
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Chinese Pharmacies: The Current Landscape and Social Identity of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan
Lecture, China Seminar
- Presenting the wonders of early modern encyclopaedic collections in Leiden
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Archaeology as a bridge between past and future
Luc Amkreutz, curator of prehistory at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and professor of Public Archaeology at Leiden University, has a mission: to make the past accessible and relevant to a broad audience. He is the new Eugène Dubois Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering…
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History