From September 2024, the existing departments of History and Medieval Studies will join forces and launch CEU’s new Department of Historical Studies. Our research and teaching are recognized for their innovative approach to graduate education, and our international faculty offers expertise that extends…

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…

Voor het eerst heeft een onderzoeksgroep onder leiding van Karline Janmaat en haar voormalige masterstudent Chirag Chittar de verschillende hypotheses over muziek tegelijkertijd getest met voedselvoorziening in een moderne samenleving tijdens de dagelijkse zoektocht naar knollen - hun basisvoedsel.

De digitale lobby of de virtuele belangenbehartiging, het blijkt te werken. Maar op den duur gaat de kwaliteit van de relaties erdoor achteruit, horen we van public affairs professionals van grote bedrijven. Ze missen de fysieke lobby, het contact in levende lijve. Lees hieronder het blog van onder…

Wereldwijd worden veel samenwerkingsverbanden met Rusland stopgezet vanwege de oorlog in Oekraïne. Hoe zit dat met de ruimtevaart, waar de Russen ook een groot aandeel in hebben?

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 14 June to 15 July 2020 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice.

ILS organizes a new lunch seminar series where all researchers from Leiden Law School can present their research. The idea is to hear in a simple and nice way what researchers from other research programs and institutes are working on. During a seminar two or three speakers will present their research.…

MINESCAPES invites PhD students from various disciplines to apply for participation in their 2024 summer school, taking place from May 31 to June 10, 2024. The Summer School will bring together students and scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to study mining landscapes…

This is the final call for candidates (research master students, PhD students, and postdocs) to participate in the 2021 Autumn School, entitled "Scales of Knowledge. From Cosmos to Book", which will take place online from 18 until 22 October 2021.

Lezing, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

Debat, Career Talk

Join this lecture from professor Daniel Aldrich at the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven on Wednesday 3 November. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers, associate professor in Crisis Governance, will be the moderator of the lecture and she and professor Aldrich give us a preview of the event.

Op vrijdag 9 juli 2021 vond de diploma-uitreiking plaats van het tweejarig programma MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (Advanced). De ceremonie werd geopend door Prof. Madeleine Hosli.

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:…

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…

Van Mexico en Indonesië tot China en Tsjechië: mensen van over de hele wereld lazen over de publicatie van de Leidse Sterrewacht over de geboorteplaats van kometen. Dit onderzoek suggereert dat alle kometen in ons zonnestelsels mogelijk op dezelfde plek geboren zijn: een bepaalde zone in de platte schijf…

Modern optimization algorithms offer solutions for architectural decisions like spatial, structural and energy efficiency. A young computer scientist from Leiden University co-authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award at a leading conference in Krakow during the summer.

Het eerste artikel heeft zij samen met Remus Ilies, Klodiana Lanaj en Zen Goh gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Journal of Vocational Behavior en gaat over de manieren waarop organisaties kunnen voldoen aan de sociale behoeften van hun werknemers.

Samen met mevrouw A. Roper en mevrouw L. Wang heeft prof.dr. J.I. van der Rest een artikel in het tijdschrift 'International Journal of Hospitality Management' gepubliceerd.

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 16 June to 17 July 2019 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice. Applications for the second edition are now open!

A series of workshops at Leiden University and the University of Hamburg will act as a forum in which international legal scholars whose research adopts a behavioural approach can present their works-in-progress and gain feedback from a broad range of peers, including scholars in economics and cognitive…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

North Sea Crossings, a new exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, will trace the long history of Anglo-Dutch relations. Focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, items from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections will illustrate the ways in which these exchanges…

The Datini Study Week will embrace a broad (but not generic) definition of social mobility to include not only the change from a well-defined social-economic condition to another equally well-defined (and measurable) one, but also the process through which individuals, families and social groups re-define…

The aim of this workshop is to open up the discussion of textual communities in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, by offering a platform for PhD students from all over the world and from various disciplines to present their own research and discuss it with others. Deadline: April 23.

On Friday 23 September 2016 the Leiden Complex Networks Network day, the LCN2 day, will take place in Leiden.

A workshop is organized at St John's College, Oxford, on September 23-24. The workshop aims to bring together medievalists of all disciplines to discuss the research and teaching of ‘difficult’ or ‘taboo’ topics. The organizers welcome applications from scholars working in any field that demands sensitivity…

The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…

In het Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law is zojuist een artikel van Christa Tobler met de titel ‚One of Many Challenges After ‚Brexit’. The Institutional Framework of an Alternative Agreement – Lessons from Switzerland and Elsewhere?’ verschenen (Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative…

A small insight into the annual study trip to Brussels of the advanced master programme Law and Digital Technologies.

Last month, on March 19th, Leiden Law School hosted the first Law, AI & Digitalisation Meetup, a collaborative initiative organised by the departments of Public Law, Civil Law, eLaw, and Business Studies. The afternoon event featured engaging pitch sessions, informative poster presentations, and networking…

Researchers from the Department of Economics - Kees Goudswaard, Koen Caminada, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning and Olaf van Vliet - have been awarded a grant of one million euros by Instituut Gak to investigate self-sufficiency and social protection.

Kunst en vrije tijd

Debat, Career Talk

Hoe positioneerde onze academische gemeenschap zich ten opzichte van een systeem dat mensen van hun vrijheid beroofde? Welke rol heeft de universiteit als onderwijsinstelling ingenomen ten opzichte van kolonialisme en het slavernijsysteem? Hoe kunnen wij het beste omgaan met onze bijzondere collecti…

Onder vindt u de wetenschappelijke publicaties van het Navigatie Lab Leiden

From 5 to 15 April 2024, a course on graffiti in Italy between the seventh and sixteenth centuries will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome (KNIR). Applicants are encouraged to apply before February 4, 2024.

Former PhD student of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) Bart Thomee has received this year’s Rising Star Award from the Multimedia group of ACM, the worldwide computer science association. Today, Thomee is a successful researcher at Yahoo Labs.

Op 8 en 9 juli 2022 was de Leidse rechtenfaculteit gastvrouw van het tweede congres van de onderzoeksgroep Conflictoplossende Instituties (COI), in samenwerking met Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en de Universiteit Utrecht.

Actuele vraagstukken uit zowel Nederland als de internationale gemeenschap, zetten we in om de nieuwsgierigheid van studenten en onderzoekers te prikkelen.

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

De Leidse Universiteit heeft een lange en waardevolle traditie in de Papyrologie.

How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.