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• Pleading for Diversity: The Church Caspar Coolhaes Wanted Research output

  Linda Stuckrath Gottschalk defended her thesis on 6 April 2016.

• Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts. Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550) Research project

  The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.

• Hans Vollaard, ‘The 2017 Dutch parliamentary elections: A fragmented picture as Rutte and Wilders draw their battle lines’ Research output

  The parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, scheduled for March 2017, are likely to result in a fragmented parliament and a complicated coalition formation process, according to Dutch political scientist Hans Vollaard (Leiden University).

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  Lisanne Jansen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Politiques, Education et Identités Linguistiques, le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939) Research output

  This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

• Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire Research output

  An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period

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  Jessie Sun Contract PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Juan Masullo Jimenez Assistant professor/guest

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• About the Programme Religious Studies (MA)

• Masterclass: Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries News - 31 October 2023

  On January 19, a masterclass on the theme of religious imagination will take place in the Lorentz Center in Leiden. This masterclass for MA and PhD students will focus on the religious imagination as a spiritual skill in the late medieval Low Countries, and the role of religious texts, images, and objects…

• Meet our staff Classics (research) (MA)

• The Secular Outlook Research output

  The Secular Outlook describes what moral and political secularism means. It paints the image of a world view in which state and religion are kept well separated.

• From Wife to Presidential Partner: the Policy Agenda of the First Lady of the United States Research output

  In this article, Kuipers and Timmermans analyze the first lady's relationship with policy problems in the period 1945-2013.

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Clara van Dam Guest

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ymre Schuurmans Professor Constitutional and Administrative Law

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Herman Siemens Senior University Lecturer History of Modern Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sine Bagatur University Lecturer Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victor Posthuma External PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

• Ban on 'boas' wearing religious symbols not yet possible News - 15 February 2024

  It is becoming increasingly common for large Dutch municipalities, including the Municipality of Amsterdam, to allow special enforcement officers to wear religious symbols such as the kippah and headscarf. Dutch Minister of Justice Dilan Yesilgöz and PVV party leader Geert Wilders are opposed to this…

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  Tom Theuns Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Nikoleta Yordanova Associate professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Gisela Hirschmann Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Katharina Natter Senior assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor Political Philosophy

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Philippe van Gruisen Associate professor

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Stefan Cetkovic Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Program Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism News - 11 September 2024

  Program for postgraduate research master seminar 'Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism' 2024–2025 is online

• Verbal art of the Fon (Benin) Research output

  This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.

• The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries Research output

  This article examines how immigration from Central and Eastern Europe influences political support for Eurosceptic parties.

• Sharia Incorporated Research output

  Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present

• Buddhism and social justice: doctrine, ideology and discrimination in tension Research project

  In Sri Lanka, a prominent Singhalese Buddhist monk publicly proclaims that it is not a sin to kill Tamils. In Japan, the family register kept in a Buddhist temple and specifying the outcaste status of a lineage is provided to private detectives investigating the marriageability of a young woman. Throughout…

• Retrieving the Past Glory: Social Memory, Transnational Networks and Christianity in Contemporary China Research output

  Jifeng Liu defended his thesis on 2 February 2017

• About the programme Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (research) (MA)

  During the two-year Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct quality research.

• Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism Research output

  In 2019, Aliaksandr Lukashenka marks a quarter of a century as the first, and so far only president of the Republic of Belarus. This new book by Dr. Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, offers the most up-to-date analysis of government and politics in a country usually…

• European policy and policy execution Research project

  How can we understand the implementation of EU policy and what challenges are involved?

• Faithful Protection: The Use of Scripture in Egyptian Amulets (7th – 12th Century CE) Research project

  A selected group of unpublished amulets from various collections in the world will be studied and edited.

• War Heroes and War Criminals. The Spanish Commanders and their Actions during the First Decade of the Dutch Revolt in Narrative Sources from Research project

  How were Spanish commanders fighting in the Low Countries between 1567 and 1577 portrayed in Spanish and Dutch narrative sources during the Eighty Years War?

• DRIVE: Social inclusion against polarisation Research project

  What are the main issues leading to polarisation and division? What is the role of social exclusion in these processes? How can we inform and design better policies to safeguard young people from falling prey to intolerance and polarisation? The DRIVE project, led by Leiden University in The Hague,…

• The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History Research output

  This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.

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  Ingrid van Biezen Professor of Comparative Politics

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• A Disobedient Diaspora: Living Hinduism in Osdorp, Amsterdam Research project

  This project explores the religious lives of a Surinamese Hindu community practicing in Amsterdam at the Sri Radha Krishna Mandir from an interdisciplinary perspective.

• Key Issues in Historical Theory Research output

  This book addresses the definition of history and how people are influenced by it.

• About the programme Europe 1000-1800 (MA)

  During the Europe 1000-1800 programme you will learn from inspired academics. Find out more about the programme below.

• Clinton won, but the horserace continues Research output

  Let’s get this out of the way: Hillary Clinton won the 26 September 2016 presidential candidates television debate. Handily.

• Art beyond Japan: Contemporary art in the politics of translation Research project

  Investigation of 1.) The whereabouts of the epistemological dissonances in art criticisms on Post-war contemporary art from Japan between two different language realms, in this case in English and Japanese; and 2.) What the dissonances disclose, disturb, and contribute in the process of the establishment…

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  Amy Verdun Guest professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Natascha van der Zwan Associate professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Christina Luise Toenshoff Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen