From 3 to 5 September 2025, the project Governing and Building the City will organize the conference 'Good Governance and the Built Environment of Late Medieval Cities (ca. 1200–1600)' at KBR in Brussels. The deadline for the call for papers is 7 April.

It has been a long-standing mystery how complex biological structures emerge from such seemingly uncoordinated building blocks as cells and tissues, in the presence of only minimal environmental guidance.

Plastics have become an integral part of modern society due to their versatility and durability.

Motivatie, moed en handvatten om een baan te zoeken waarmee je de klimaatcrisis aan kunt pakken: het staat centraal in het vak Designing Your Career as a Climate Changemaker. Met hun eindpresentaties sluiten de studenten deze klimaatspecifieke vaardigheidsmodule binnen het Designing Your Life-project…

The ERC project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), led by Thijs Porck (Leiden University) is hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and 2 PhD's. Details on the individual projects can be found below. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024.

On 5 and 6 june 2024, the conference The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices is organised at the University of Padova. The organisers welcome abstracts for 25-minute papers in English or Italian, to be submitted by November 30.

On 11 and 12 December, the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG) organizes a graduate conference around the theme of "The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Medieval Germanic Traditions". PhD students and recent graduates who wish to present are encouraged to submit an abstract before…

Climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of natural and cultural landscapes, and many other (ecological) sustainability challenges urge us to (re)evaluate human interaction with the natural world. This renewed environmental consciousness has invigorated not only scientists working on effects…

In navolging op zijn keuze om terug te keren naar het onderwijs en onderzoek zal Prof.dr. Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel in de zomer van 2013 zijn werkzaamheden als hoogleraar voortzetten bij de faculteit Bètawetenschappen in Utrecht. Hij volgt daar prof.dr. Odo Diekmann op in de leerstoel voor Toegepaste Ana…

De franciscaanse observantie heeft een significante invloed gehad op het religieuze en culturele leven in de Nederlanden van c. 1450-1550. Dat ontdekte Anna Dlabacova tijdens haar promotieonderzoek naar de invloed van de observantie op de ruime, Europese verspreiding van tekst.

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.

Dit project onderzoekt de professionalisering van universiteitsbibliotheken in de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw, door de lens van het middeleeuwse handschriftenbezit. Met de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek als uitgangspunt werpt het licht op de veranderende praktijken rond het conserveren, behandelen…

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

In de Bibliotheca Thysiana, een zeventiende-eeuwse bibliotheek aan het Leidse Rapenburg, is in een boekband een deel van een Duits ambtelijk archief uit de Late Middeleeuwen aangetroffen. Het betreft niet minder dan 132 handgeschreven papieren bladen en notitievelletjes afkomstig van een ongeïdentificeerd…

Metal production is not only energy-intensive and a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but is also associated with other impacts affecting human health and ecosystems.

Lorenza Colzato wil onderzoeken of het gebruik van probiotica en tryptofaan de sociaal-cognitieve achteruitgang die optreedt bij het ouder worden, kan vertragen. Daarvoor ontvangt Colzato samen met haar collega's in Duitsland en Spanje een JPI 'A Healthy Diet for A Healthy Life' Joint Transnational…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Hydrogen-based fuels are regarded as promising candidates for decarbonizing the maritime shipping sector.

The basic program comprises a total of twelve courses organized by the Research School, that have been purpose-developed for training and support of PhD students and Research MA students who specialize in Medieval Studies (history, art history, and literary history, in particular).

On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.

Zaterdag 18 juni vond op de Universiteit Leiden een grote Tolkien-conferentie plaats. National Geographic schreef erover.