Dr. Marian Klamer, werkzaam binnen LIAS en LUCL, is een internationaal erkend expert op het gebied van de beschrijvende taalkunde. Vanuit haar specialisatie op het gebied van de Austronesische en Papua Taalkunde draagt zij bij aan bredere disciplinaire en interdisciplinaire ontwikkeling van de weten…

Marian Klamer legt verdwijnende Austronesische en Papuatalen vast en werpt nieuw licht op de Indonesische geschiedenis.

Hoogleraar Modern Japan Studies Katarzyna Cwiertka kreeg een Vici-subsidie van 1,5 miljoen euro voor haar onderzoeksproject Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘Ik wil iets doen wat anderen niet hebben gedaan.’

The Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia will host the Third European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 7 to 9 September 2022. Papers are invited on any aspect of Celtic Studies, including language, literature, history, archaeology and culture from any period. Deadline for submission:…

As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate for the research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. This opportunity is funded by the administrative…

This one-day conference, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), invites you to share your research ideas and results in practices of comparative medievalism in arts and culture. We therefore invite contributions of papers that analyse cultural representations of the…

The "Cognitive Turn" and the Middle Ages - There is an increasing interest in the cognitive sciences and how knowledge from this area influences literary studies, history, art history, and studies in material culture. This meeting seeks to discuss the possibilities, but also the limitations of incorporating…

Professional scribes in the Middle Ages produced advertisement sheets with which they presented themselves to potential clients. In this lecture Erik Kwakkel will show known and new examples of such advertisement sheets and interpret their importance for our understanding of the culture of writing in…

A temporary position of Senior Researcher (SKO 1109) in Medieval Studies is available at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. The position will be linked to the ERC Advanced Grant project 101018645 MINiTEXTS “Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval…

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Medieval Studies are available at the Department of Conservation, Archaeology, and History, University of Oslo. The positions are associated with the project “Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c.1000)”, funded by the…

On 19 November 2021 the 41th Erasmus Birthday Lecture will be delivered by Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge University). In the morning she will offer a masterclass, entitled 'Commonplacing as a map to early modern culture', for 15 MA students and PhD candidates. Deadline for application: 1 November…

The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) is organizing a panel at the 2023 International Medieval Congress in Leeds entitled "Relics and Reliquaries in Iberia, c. 1000-1400: Stories, Places, and Identities". Papers on any topic regarding the cult of saints, their material…

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University invites paper proposals on late antique and medieval Syriac iconography and visual culture for a virtual conference to be held on September 17–18, 2021. Abstracts should be between 300–500 words and should be submitted to acady@princeton.edu…

The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a one-year position as Lecturer ('docent') in Celtic Languages and Culture, starting September 1, 2022 (0.7 FTE). Teaching will be primarily at Bachelor level,…

Within the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, which is financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation), there are at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 2 positions for doctoral research associates (pay…

Applicants are encouraged to apply for this doctoral position, conducting research on the transmission of taste c. 1200-c.1400. The doctorate focuses on medieval English recipes in their social, historical, and intellectual context, with comparison to neighbouring food cultures in France and Germany.…

The conference cycle Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words, co-organised by the IRHT (CNRS) and Institute of Polish Language (PAS) aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. This year's edition focuses on the concepts of FEAST, CELEBRATION…

Taalkundige Johan Rooryck gaat onderzoek doen naar leervermogen en kernkennissystemen, en hoe bezit in verschillende talen wordt uitgedrukt. Samen met collega-onderzoekers heeft hij twee NWO-subsidies van in totaal 2,75 miljoen euro ontvangen voor de onderzoeksprogramma’s ‘Knowledge and Culture’ en…

Op 19 maart 2016 is door de editorial board van het tijdschrift Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) het artikel van Tanachia Ashikali en Sandra Groeneveld getiteld: “Diversity Management in Public Organizations and its Effect on Employees’ Affective Commitment. The Role of Transformational…

Op 9 februari 2015, de 440e Dies Natalis, zal Peter J. Katzenstein een eredoctoraat van de Universiteit Leiden ontvangen voor zijn verdiensten voor de sociale wetenschappen in het algemeen, en de politicologie in het bijzonder. Professor Katzenstein (Cornell University) is een van de meest invloedrijke…

Binnen de opleiding Midden-Oostenstudies kun je je richten op zes verschillende deelgebieden.

The University of Groningen is organizing a summer school on the topic of Medieval “Lived Religion” this summer. In this interdisciplinary summer school Masters and PhD students will be challenged by leading specialists dealing with textual and material sources of medieval religious cultures. They will…

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, with additional support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH), organizes a virtual conference on Syriac Iconography. This conference gathers diverse scholars from across the…

The University of Oslo offers two three-year postdoctoral positions: one with a background in early medieval liturgy and the other in early medieval cultures of healing. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities,…

Within the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, which is financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation), there are at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 6 positions for doctoral research associates (pay…

The Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War” invites scholars to submit paper proposals for a series of sessions on “Perceptions of Just War in the Middle Ages” at the IMC 2025. These sessions aim to explore the diverse theological, philosophical, legal, and cultural…

On January 8 and 9, a conference will take place at Leiden University, titled: "The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities". This conference marks the 25 years anniversary of the Intersections series (published by Brill) and reflects…

On December 3, Erik Kwakkel (University of British Columbia) will give a lecture in the University Library Leiden, titled “Writing on the Wall: Medieval Advertisement Sheets in Perspective.” Professional scribes in the Middle Ages produced advertisement sheets with which they presented themselves to…

Leiden-Delft-Erasmus introduceert dit jaar drie nieuwe minoren: Space Missions, (Re)imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture en Living Education Lab. Marja Verstelle, Projectmanager Leiden-Delft-Erasmus onderwijs vertelt over het belang van multidisciplinair samenwerken voor de…

In Nederland komt gehoorverlies voor bij 1 tot 2 op de 1000 kinderen. In ongeveer een kwart van de gevallen is de oorzaak niet bekend. De mate van gehoorverlies kent een grote variatie. In dit proefschrift worden kinderen besproken met een gehoorverlies variërend van matig (40 dB, te vergelijken met…

Dr. Rosalien van der Poel volgt drs. Lonneke Regter op als Instituutsmanager van de Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). Samen met prof.dr. Henk Borgdorff, wetenschappelijk directeur, vormt zij sinds 15 november 2017 de directie van ACPA.

De Kikkoman-leerstoel is een nieuwe leerstoel die wordt gesponsord door de Kikkoman Foundation en de Vereniging van Vrienden van de Aziatische Kunst. De leeropdracht betreft de Aziatisch-Europese interculturele dynamiek.

The KNIR seminar 'Reasoning to Believe' will concentrate on early modern sermons, a genre of tremendous impact on European culture not just in the period of the Reformation but throughout. We will lecture on the practice of sermons in the period 1200-1650 throughout and beyond Europe, concentrating…

The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In…

This volume, edited by Kay Boers, Becca Grose (University of St Andrews), Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin) and Guy Walker (Trinity College Dublin), brings together eight essays by eminent scholars and early career researchers, reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure in Late Antiquity (c. 150…

Een internationaal onderzoeksteam metgedragsbioloog Katharina Riebel als hoofdonderzoeker en twee internationale medewerkers ontving een Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) beurs voor het hun onderzoeksvoorstel ‘Seeing voices’: the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning.

Do Ethiopian wolves change their diet and foraging strategy in the landscape under different land uses? How land use affect Afro-alpine rodent Communities? How important are Afro-alpine natural resources utilisation for local livelihoods? What is the human perception of conflict in the Afro-alpine a…

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We dragen en voelen een grote verantwoordelijkheid voor onze proefdieren. We willen ze dan ook een zo goed mogelijk leven geven. In onderzoeken vermijden en verminderen we het ongerief voor de dieren zoveel mogelijk. Hieronder lees je hoe dat er in de praktijk uitziet.

Migratie en criminaliteit staan maatschappelijk volop in de schijnwerpers. Binnen het instituut voor Strafrecht en Criminologie heeft onderzoek op dit terrein zich de laatste jaren sterk ontwikkeld. Het begrip Crimmigratie staat daarbij centraal.

NEARCH beoogt de verschillende dimensies van publieksparticipatie binnen de hedendaagse archeologie te onderzoeken en nieuwe manieren van werken en samenwerken in kaart te brengen voor het vakgebied.

Hieronder wordt per deelnemende universiteit een kort overzicht van lopende programma's en projecten gegeven.

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Of je nu geïnteresseerd bent in internationaal recht, wereldpolitiek, diversiteit en integratie, gezondheid en het milieu, klimaatveranderingen en alternatieve energiestrategiëen of het besluitvormingsproces en de maatschappelijke veiligheid, LUC The Hague heeft een afstudeerrichting die bij je past…