992 search results for “religious conversion” in the Staff website
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Sneaker Team part 2: ‘There is still a lot of work to do’
Joao Schim is a business analyst and together with his colleagues of the Sneaker Team, he walks through the buildings of the University for five months. These 6 experts are mapping all measurement and research systems, starting with the Faculty of Science. Joao tells us what he does and what catches…
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Jim Been new PhD Dean - 'I hope to alleviate certain pressures that PhD candidates might feel'
The Associate Professor at the Institute of Tax Law and Economics is one of two PhD deans at Leiden Law School and started in this position on 1 October 2023.
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.
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New book by Tom Buitelaar on the cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in Congo
On 22 November, Tom Buitelaar, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, presents his new book ‘Assisting International Justice’. Five questions to Buitelaar about the book and the book presentation.
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Maak kennis met Siggie, online coaching voor FGGA Studenten
Maak kennis met Siggie, online coaching voor FGGA Studenten
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Serious game helpt mensen met Niet Aangeboren Hersenletsel (NAH) opnieuw te navigeren
Om de weg te vinden letten sommige mensen op de omgeving, anderen onthouden waar ze links of rechts af moeten slaan. Mensen met Niet Aangeboren Hersenletsel (NAH) rapporteren navigatieproblemen. Om opnieuw te leren navigeren heeft neurowetenschapper Milan van der Kuil als revalidatietherapie een serious…
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‘The Board is not always happy with what the Council is saying, but they do listen’
We are already halfway through the academic year 2022-2023. And the Faculty Council hasn’t been sitting around doing nothing! Staff members Gert-Jan Lelieveld and Tim Mickler give us an update about the Vision and Strategy Plan and what they are doing in the additional hours available for Council wo…
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Niels Laurens: ‘We’re no longer a small faculty’
Since a few months, Executive Director Niels Laurens no longer has to divide his attention between two faculties but has been able to fully focus on FGGA. A conversation about the dynamics within our Faculty, his management style, and the steps we will all have to take together to improve issues such…
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition funding.
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New PhD-training programme started at ISGA: ‘We want PhD-candidates to thrive’
Lydie Cabane and Seda Gürkan, respectively PhD-coordinator and Assistant Professor at ISGA, are starting a new programme to support and train ISGA PhD-candidates. They tell us more about the programme: ‘We aim to facilitate a successful completion of PhD trajectories.’
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Jasper's Day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.
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International students explore the archaeology of Oss: ‘I was responsible for finding 50% of the pottery sherds’
The Municipality of Oss is a household name in the world of Dutch archaeology. For fifty years, Leiden archaeologists, in collaboration with residents of Oss, have been uncovering the history of the municipality. 2024 is the archaeological year of Oss! In a series of interviews we look back on fifty…
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The OIC puts its heads together
The Education Information Centre (OIC) plays a key role in organising the teaching and education provided at our faculty. But what does this department do, how can it help you and what are its plans over the coming period? We spoke to Stephanie Petitjean (OIC Administration Manager) and Marlijn Martens…
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New management model Faculty of Science starting 1 July
After nearly a year-long process, the new collegial institute boards within our faculty's institutes are ready to begin. This marks the implementation of a new, modern, and contemporary way of management. Nearly all roles within the institute boards have been filled, with recruitment for some positions…
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Archaeology students Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse receive NVFA incentive prize for Allard Pierson Museum internship.
Research Master’s students in Archaeology Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse received an Incentive Prize from the Dutch Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA). They were awarded this honor for their ongoing study on the human osteology collection at the Allard Pierson Museum.
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Bridging science, society and self: what honours education can look like
How can I align science, society and myself to address today’s major challenges? That’s what students of the Honours College track ‘Science, Society and Self’ aim to find out. How do their classes at honours differ from their regular education?
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LTA Education Festival: working together to find connection in education
Education never stops because society is always changing. It is up to students and lecturers to align learning and teaching with current demands. During the Leiden Teachers’ Academy Education Festival, participants united in their search for ways to achieve that.
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Ambassadors visit Leiden: ‘Knowledge knows no borders’
Over 30 ambassadors strengthened their ties with researchers and university leaders in a recent visit to Leiden University. Cross-border collaboration (both literal and figurative) was the theme of presentations and a tour of the Hortus botanicus.
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same'
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the financial sector. Three decades later, Resi Janssen is making a radical career switch. Or isn’t she? 'In ten years’ time I want IBL to be in a new, sustainable…
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Psychology Connected on why we fight, and how to find peace again
After discussing the climate, our psychologists once again broach a big topic: war and peace. Or, perhaps: cooperation and conflict. For no matter how benevolent our intentions towards each other, friction never seems far away. Researchers Angelo Romano and Tom Roth offer explanations and practical…
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Research Opportunities for Masters Students
Costanza Franceschini discusses the Sea-ing Africa project, offering unique anthropological research opportunities in Ghana and Morocco for Masters students.
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Newsletter Student Support FSW May 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication
‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Physics, wants to convey during his inaugural lecture. At the moment, a lot of researchers look down their noses at this while it is extremely important…
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
- COGLOSS seminars 2022-2023
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Roundtable on the Future of Yemeni Studies
Conference, Roundtable
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Only the dead can tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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CSPPR Lecture: The Power of ‘Unpolitics’
Lecture
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in Dutch
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in English
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Opening POP-up Living Room FSW
Opening
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Leiden Research Support Live event
LRS Live Events
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OSCoffee: Research Software on the rise at Leiden University
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Making data reusable in the social sciences
Lecture
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On behalf of the Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited
Lecture, Book talk
- Student Well-being Staff Symposium - Translating student well-being from vision into practice
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Staff symposium Student well-being – from abstract term to concrete tools
Conference
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Between spiritual care and forensic care: situating the remains of war dead in contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, Research Seminar
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In the Making #4: Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Lecture, Conversation
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The Hague Space Diplomacy Symposium
Conference