Conference, A Blue-Sky thinking seminar

Lecture

LeidenGlobal Annual event

Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. In that respect, a huge amount happened at Leiden University in 2023.

Research on flora and fauna with attention for economic interests and partnership with the local population. This is all bundled in a cooperation programme of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Leiden University. Working together on the basis of equality is key. ‘A thorny challenge, but one…

Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both the application process as well as the start of the project were challenged by the limitations set by Covid-19. ‘As a preparation we travelled through the…

The nominees for the IRO thesis prize 2021 and for the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg prize 2021. Who wrote the best Political Science bachelor’s theses?

Monday 6 February the Faculty of Archaeology had the honour to receive the e Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Dr. Juan Bautista Durán. The motive of the visit was to discuss the collaboration between the university and the Dominican Government after the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding…

The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…

Limburg lawyer Roger Cox has caused a legal revolution. With high-profile cases against the Dutch state and Shell oil company, he transformed the law into a tool to enforce climate policy. Leidraad alumni magazine spoke to him about a life defined by radical choices for a better world.

Bribing a politician to gain influence or making sure friends end up in powerful positions: Brazilian energy companies use these power strategies daily.

There are as good as no clear rules for the return of stolen art. This means that rather than in court, many cases are decided in the political arena instead. In her PhD research Evelien Campfens suggests how this could change. PhD defence on 11 November.

Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.

UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts as World Heritage. The manuscripts are inscribed in the global UNESCO Memory of the World Register. This list contains documentary heritage…

On 1 September 2023, 280 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden: the UNESCO world heritage site, where the university was originally founded in 1575. A large audience of about 700 people consisting…

In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…

CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

Terra Symposium

Masterclass

Lecture

On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day (February 21, 2022) and at the start of the UNESCO International Decade for Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as well as Leiden City of Science in 2022, the CIPL/CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World, Leiden University,…

Environmental Humanities LU Talk

Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress

A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.

Conference

Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass

Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series

This Faculty Lecture will present an analysis of a contemporary myth - our Western myth of the roots of social inequality - based on an archaeological perspective, and also an analysis of the myth itself. As is well known, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote his essay on the origins of social inequality in…

Lecture

This lecture delivers a historical revision of the main characteristics of the last 32 years of Chilean recent history from the perspective of Human Rights and politics of memory. Dr Barrientos will analyse these issues from the perspectives of the main critics, contradictions and frustrations emerging…

The Arctic has gained prominence in recent years as a number of international trends – from the fight for climate change to the struggle to access the rare minerals needed for further development of ‘green’ technologies and rivalry among world economic powers – come to a head in this environmentally…

Lecture, CHiLL series

The Arctic has gained prominence in recent years as a number of international trends – from the fight for climate change to the struggle to access the rare minerals needed for further development of ‘green’ technologies and rivalry among world economic powers – come to a head in this environmentally…