1,211 search results for “cultures of the middle east” in the Student website
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Willem van Wijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Patrick Degryse
Faculteit Archeologie
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Vincent Niochet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Elizabeth Cecil
Faculty of Humanities
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Angus Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Ali Shobeiri
Faculty of Humanities
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Tullio Abruzzese
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anna Notsu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Brian McGarry
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Thea Coventry
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hilde Woker
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dutch symposium for the Near East (DUSANE)
Conference
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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After graduation
You’ve graduated. What’s your next step? Leiden University offers many options for students who have just finished their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
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Felicia Rosu
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Kessler
Science
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan London
Faculty of Humanities
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Ebbe Rogge
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2, Leiden
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The last Research Traineeship programme has ended for now: ‘We’ll bring it back as soon as we can’
Amsterdam’s attitude to sex work, politeness in historical Arabic letters and malaria in the Middle Ages: again this year, there was a wide variety of topics in the Research Traineeship programme. On Friday 30 August, the trainees finished the last of these projects for now.
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alumnus Adrian Young gives lecture on cultural heritage to AHK students
On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritage in space.
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Interested to learn more about Chinese political and legal culture? This is your chance
Education
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Pepita Hesselberth
Faculty of Humanities
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Skate culture embraced by Olympic Games is now visible in the city
The skateboarding world was highly enthusiastic about the participation of skaters in the Olympic Games in 2021, although there was also a lot of opposition. Researcher Sander Hölsgens observes that the discussion has now abated and that the Games have had positive effects for skateboarders and citi…
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’