Alumna Simay Çetin received the award for her Master thesis: ‘Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexuality among Dutch Women with Turkish Migrant backgrounds.’ Nova, Marta, Iris and Emma were awarded for their Fieldwork NL report.

Organisation

Organisation

Debate, BookTalk

PhD defence

American anthropologist Rosemary Joyce will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on its Dies Natalis on 8 February. Joyce has delivered important new insights into the ancient Mayan cultures of Central America.

UBH is an interdisciplinary conference organized at Leiden University, the Netherlands, whose primary goal is to offer a space for intellectual exchange to scholars working on different areas of inquiry in which Queer Theories and Epistemologies are a common element. The conference welcomes researchers…

On 3 March 2021 Zuzana Vikarská presented some of her work in progress research at the Europa Institute's "Food for Thought" session.

Opening of the Interdisciplinary photo exhibition on Crafts and Craftsmanship in different cultures, with an introduction by Fridus Steijlen on the Crafts of Tau-Tau Puppetry Arts in Sulawesi, Indonesia Crafts and innovation have gone hand in hand for decades. A re-evaluation of craft and craftsmanship…

World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.

On Monday 17 October 2022 the ceremony for bachelor students of Cultural Anthropology and Development takes place in the Academy Building.

On Monday 10 October 2022 the ceremony for master students of Cultural Anthropology and Development takes place in the Academy Building.

As part of her VENI project Remembering Dissent and Disillusion in the Arab World Judith Naeff looks at the ways in which video art and documentaries transmit memories of leftist movements and ideologies as part of intimate family histories. Marwan Hamdan's Separation Anxiety, which was screened…

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,…

Imagine: you’re seeking asylum in the Netherlands due to your sexual orientation or gender identity. The immigration authorities might question you about your sexuality. PhD candidate Elias Tissandier-Nasom, who is researching asylum applications submitted by LGBTQI+ children, explains that the process…

The opening of Islamic primary schools has made an important contribution to the emancipation and integration of Muslims in the Netherlands. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Bahaeddin Budak in his research into 25 years (1988-2013) of Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands. PhD defence on…

On 1 June 2022, Maarten Kunst, Professor of Criminology at Leiden Law School, gave a lecture on his research into the effects of the right to be heard on both the defendant and the victim. Victims have certain rights in the Dutch criminal process, including the right to be heard in criminal proceedings.…

Festival, Graduation ceremony

Monday 14 March 2022 the master students of CADS will receive their diploma. Friends and family that cannot make it to the ceremony can follow the live-stream via this link. We hope you all come to watch and celebrate (life or virtually) with our students! The live-stream will start at 10.55 hrs…

Festival, Graduation ceremony

Monday 7 March 2022 the bachelor students of CADS will receive their diploma. Friends and family that cannot make it to the ceremony can follow the live-stream via this link. We hope you all come to watch and celebrate (life or virtually) with our students! The live-stream will start at 14.10 hrs…

Festival, Graduation Ceremony

Lecture, Workshop

PhD defence

Festival, Graduation ceremony

PhD defence

Festival, Graduation Ceremony

Festival, Graduation ceremony

Prof. I. Smeets Prof. M. Schilthuizen

For an assignment for the course Medical Anthropology, students were asked to choose a theme related to the Covid-19 pandemic, find information and present their work in a creative way. The results are impressive.

A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030, an effort to reduce the country’s reliance on oil, may open up new opportunities for Korea. Spearheading the way is Hallyu — the Korean wave, led by K-pop and dramas as a soft power to open new business opportunities in the Middle East, especially…

Books have long been an essential medium for spreading ideas and values, and this was particularly the case during the Cold War. This conference invites researchers from different disciplines and perspectives to further investigate the role and importance of books in the Cold War. Introducing a book-centered,…

Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago.

Facility, Organisation, Security

Prof. P.M.M.G. Akkermans Prof. M.G. Kossmann Summary: This dissertation is the first systematic investigation of the materiality of Safaitic inscriptions, which were carved by ancient nomads in the Ḥarrah, a basaltic desert stretching from southern Syria, through north-eastern Jordan, into northern…

The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?

Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.

What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’

The Institute for Philosophy further expands its knowledge: As of 1 September, Annemie Halsema holds the chair of Wijsgerige antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme (Philosophical anthropology and the principles of humanism, ed.). In the coming five years, she will study current societal issues…

Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

LIACS Creative Intelligence Lab and Media Technology MSc will host a public talk by Michael Chimento, a visiting researcher from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Michael uses experimental and computational methods to study relationships between social learning and population dynamics in…

This year on June 8-12, the Annual Convention of the Austrian and Central European Centres was organised in Leiden. At this convention, directors and (PhD) students from all over the world come together to meet, have presentations by the students on their topics of expertise, and to get the know the…

Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…

Henrike Vellinga recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate, as part of Carolien Stolte's VIDI project 'Peace Palms. International Coalitions for Peace in the Era of Decolonization, 1918-1970'. The project runs alongside Carolien Stolte's ERC project 'Reconciling Peace: International…