Defence for Children and Leiden University will present the Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize for the 10th time on 6 December 2022. This prize is awarded to the best thesis in the field of children's rights. Read more about this year's nominees here. Programme 14.30 Doors open…

What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.

She has had the idea for seven years, but now environmental scientist and conservation biologist Kat Stewart finally gets to work on it. She has been awarded a Vidi grant by NWO to find out how DNA from water can be used to shed light on invasive species and their impact on native populations.

The Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea. Rerouting via South Africa is expensive, whereas the Arctic route only takes a week. Once a no-go zone, this route might be a more realistic option. Mind the nuclear submarines, though…

Lecture

Arts and culture

Lecture

On February 28th of this year Dr. Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak died of cancer after a long battle. Until his retirement in 2023 Andrzej was attached to the Faculty of Archaeology as an Associate Professor in Caribbean Archaeology. From 2017 until 2020 he was the Head of the Department of World Archaeology,…

Research

CADS alumna Ruth Erica has won the Glazen Globe with her book The Tree with the White Leaves. This is a biennial prize for the best geography-related youth or children's book.

Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.

Lecture

Day 1: Friday May 20 9:00-9:05 Welcome Angelika Koch (Leiden University) 9:05-10:30 KEYNOTE Susan Burns (University of Chicago) Advertisements for Patent Medications in Early Modern Japan 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 KEYNOTE Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University) The Primacy of Popular…

In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…

Presentation

Book presentation

Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria developed into the economic and cultural centre of the ancient world during the third century BCE. In the final two centuries BCE, Alexandria truly was a world city, a cosmopolis full of people and objects from all over Afro-Eurasia. As such it generated a…

From documentaries, zines and exhibitions to a video installation. Students of the Visual Ethnography master's programme pulled out all the stops to finish their studies in a fantastic way. For one year, the 23 students worked on their own multimedia projects. The screening of the projects took place…

Archaeologist Jason Laffoon was awarded an NWO Vidi grant for an innovative investigation into ancient migrations in the western Caribbean. The innovative character of this research project lies in the wide-scale application of isotope analysis and isotope mapping. ‘We aim at further developing methods…

New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in PLOS One.

Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.

In July 2023, Leiden University conducted another phase of its ongoing archaeological collaboration with the Kalinago Territory in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Activities focused on mapping and assessing coastal sites impacted by climate stressors, undertaking knowledge-exchange sessions, and co-creating…

On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother Language Day. Under the banner of 'a bit of fun and many serious topics,' language took centre stage.

For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) took healthcare seriously, albeit mainly for business reasons. Former GP Ton Zwaard’s PhD research reveals that although healthcare in Asia was well organised, the VOC faced persistent problems for two centuries.

18 January Aleydis Nissen will present her monograph ‘The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights’, recently published with Cambridge University Press. The book talk is organised in the context of the Europa Institute’s ‘Food For Thought’ series where we discuss research projects by…

The interdisciplinary research program Social Citizenship and Migration has recently received three large research grants, awarded by both Dutch and European institutions (NWA and Horizon Europe), totaling up to about 10 million euros. In this event on 1 June, the recipients of these grants will present…

COOP is a student-led D&I initiative that organises a series of events throughout the month of May 2022 with the ethos ‘from COnflicting OPinions to COOPeration’. The project aims to provide students with a toolkit on how to address difficult topics if not taboos within university settings in a…

Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

Lecture

This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link.

Fact-finding missions and truth and reconciliation commissions have been playing a key role in the acknowledgment of serious violations committed against indigenous peoples. This panel will discuss the mandate and importance of such mechanisms, as well as their role in bringing justice to the victims…

Music concert