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Politicoloog Femke Bakker (Universiteit Leiden) heeft de Jean Blondel PhD Prize 2019 gewonnen. Haar ‘Hawks and Doves: Democratic Peace Theory Revisited’ is volgens het European Consortium voor Political Research (ECPR) het beste politicologische proefschrift van afgelopen jaar.

De Leidse faculteit Geesteswetenschappen is de 17e faculteit in de Times Higher Education (THE) wereldranglijst van faculteiten Geesteswetenschappen, wat het de hoogst genoteerde niet-Angelsaksische faculteit in de lijst maakt. Leiden steeg zeven plaatsen in een jaar.

Op donderdag 12 juni 2013 gaf zijne excellentie Radosław Sikorski minister van Buitenlandse Zaken van Polen, de eerste Europa lezing getiteld:

Jelle van Buuren sprak vorige week bij KRO-NCRV Pointer over de campagne van antivaxers in Brussel.

Informaticus Tessa Verhoef heeft een Best Paper Award ontvangen tijdens de ‘ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility’. Het paper benadrukt de behoefte aan interdisciplinair onderzoek naar gebarentaalverwerking. Volgens de auteurs moeten taal- en computerwetenschappers samenwerken met…

On 10-11 October, the conference "The Charter's Spaces" will take place at the University of Namur. The programme has now been published.

The conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond" will take place on November 14 and November 15 2024 in Antwerp and online.

The International Conference "Her Book: Women and Book Ownership in Early Modern Europe" will take place at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) on 17-18 June 2022. For more information: aurelie.griffin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr.

Vier Leidse hoogleraren mogen bijna een miljoen besteden aan onderzoek. Het gaat om de duo’s Peter Pels (antropologie) en Chris Goto-Jones (Japans), en Patricia Spyer (antropologie) en Robert Ross (geschiedenis). Beide koppels krijgen € 450.000 uit het Cultural Dynamics Programme van NWO.

De internationale World Cultural Council (WCC) heeft wetenschappers Nadine Akkerman, Victoria Nyst en Alicia Schrikker bekroond met de Special Recognition Award, een speciale erkenning voor talentvolle jonge wetenschappers van de universiteit die de prijsuitreiking organiseert, dit jaar is dat de Universiteit…

Do you want your research to fit the rubric of heritage? Is heritage a relevant concept here? These were some of the questions that came up in the lively discussion following twelve five-minute pitches given by Leiden researchers at the ‘Academic Open Mic’ workshop in the Lipsius building on Thursday…

Maritiem archeoloog Martijn Manders is sinds 15 juli 2022 bijzonder hoogleraar Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hij combineert zijn werkzaamheden aan de Faculteit Archeologie met die van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) in Amersfoort,…

Vijf innovatieve en excellente docenten zijn toegetreden tot de Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Leden van de Teachers’ Academy wisselen ervaringen uit, kunnen zich verder ontwikkelen en delen hun kennis en kunde met de rest van de universiteit.

In de afleveringen 40 en 42 van de podcast 'Everyday Runners' door Andy Fuller en Reading Sideways Press gaat Andy in gesprek met Jasmijn Rana, universitair docent Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie.

New PhD opportunities in Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies, a collaboration between the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Deadline for application: 31 March 2025.

De Volkskrant zette de 21 mooiste wetenschapsbeelden van 2021 op een rij. Drie van de beelden worden geduid door Leidse archeologen.

From 16 to 19 September 2021 a hybrid conference will take place on animation in the Middle Ages. This conference is a cooperation between the University of Bergen (Norway) and the A. Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Branch Campus in Bialystok (Poland).

From 5 to 7 June, the conference "The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices" will take place at the University of Padova. The conference programme can be found below. The conference can be attended virtually through the registration link below.

In April, Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro will teach four masterclasses at Leiden University on "Culture and society in the medieval Islamic west: The process of Islamization". These masterclasses will take place online and are open to all students. Registration deadline: 28 March 2021.

On 8 July, the symposium 'The digital reconstruction of the crucifixion of the Lindau master (ca. 1425)' will take place at the auditorium of Museum Catharijnecovent, from where it will also be broadcasted online.

The programme for the conference "His verbis exprime luctum: Supports, style et usages de la poésie funéraire (IXe-XIIe siècles)" has been published. The conference takes place in Poitiers and Louvain from 26-29 November.

The ERC project SenSArt (University of Padova) is organizing a conference on multisensorial preaching practices in Medieval Europe. The conference will take place on October 24 to 25. Those interested are encouraged to submit a paper proposal before April 5.

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.

The European Diploma in Medieval Studies (DEEM) invites students to apply to their programme, which takes place at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, with options for partial online attendance. The DEEM provides advanced academic training for students and scholars specialising in Medieval Studies, including…

New Ph.D. programme implemented in collaboration between the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Application deadline is 30 April 2021, admission examinations take place on 14-16 June…

Fondazione 1563 launched a call for the Summer School of the Turin Humanities Programme, that will take place in Torino from September 6 to September 8 2023. The theme is: Writing global medieval history: comparative and connected approaches. Deadline for applications: June 25.

On 25 and 26 November 2021 the 18th International Meeting of the Middle Ages in Nájera will take place online. It is devoted to: "The Use of Social Space in the Late Medieval European Town". For more information, please consult: www.neim.unican.es.

'Foundations 1' takes place on 1-3 March. Do you want to learn more about different types of sources and methods for source analysis in the Dominican convent in Huissen? Register now by sending an email to ozsmed@hum.leidenuniv.nl!

As part of the lecture series 'Religion Matters', Sven Gins (RUG) will speak about moving statues and other ingenuous devices in late medieval France. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, March 13, 17:00-18:00.

On June 26-28, 2024, the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology will take place. The theme this year is "The End: Finiteness, Death and Completion in Medieval Theology". Deadline for paper proposals: 20 December 2023.

The Huizinga Institute research network “Archives of Power/The Power of Archives” will offer an interdisciplinary summer school on the various and complex origin stories of archives. The summer school will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 18 to 20 June 2024.

Voor de jaarlijkse Week van de Klassieken maakte Dr. Marike van Aerde, met haar team, een documentaire over haar archeologisch onderzoeksproject. In de film, genaamd Van Aksum tot India: De Inclusieve Oudheid, reflecteert het team op interacties tussen de Grieken en Romeinen en de wijdere antieke wereld,…

De Britse regering heeft te hoge verwachtingen van de Amerikaanse hulp na de Brexit: aan een mogelijk handelsakkoord met de Verenigde Staten hangt waarschijnlijk een stevig prijskaartje. Dat zegt universitair docent Joris Larik in De Volkskrant naar aanleiding van het bezoek van de Amerikaanse president…

In her new book, Dr Claire Weeda, cultural historian at Leiden University, investigates how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages (900-1250).

Op zaterdag 4 oktober deed de Universiteit Leiden mee aan het Weekend van de Wetenschap. Iedereen van 8 tot 99 jaar was tussen 13:00 en 17:00 uur van harte welkom in ons gebouw Wijnhaven in het centrum van Den Haag

Encyclopedie van de Rechtswetenschap ('Jurisprudence') is een filosofisch getinte inleiding in het recht.

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The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Kennis van moslimsamenlevingen is onmisbaar om in een geglobaliseerde wereld te kunnen functioneren en om onze eigen Nederlandse maatschappij goed te begrijpen. In Leiden verdiepen onderzoekers zich in de talen, cultuur, religie, rechtssystemen en geschiedenis van moslimsamenlevingen en zetten daarmee…

Jaarlijks ontvangt een uitblinkende docent de Facultaire Onderwijsprijs van de Commissie Onderwijs. Tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar op 7 september wordt de prijs uitgereikt. Studenten hebben dit jaar acht kandidaten voorgedragen - dit zijn ze!

The IGTM workshop "Rules, Regulations, and Regimes in Medieval Religion" (21 June 2023) for graduate students and junior scholars, in which early career scholars have the opportunity to discuss their research with peers and senior referents in an informal setting, takes the 800th anniversary of the…

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…

From 26 until 28 January 2022 an international conference will take place in Rome, entitled: "The Responsible Society in Early Modern Christianity". The conference aims to center on the question how the topic of social responsibility was dealt with in Early Modern Christianity (ca.1400-ca.1700). The…

From October 17 to October 20, the international conference "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling" will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome. Research Master students can obtain 2 ECTS by participating in this conference an an additional…

The chair of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen is organizing a new lecture series. In the RAM-lectures, a great variety of scholars in the fields of Antiquity and the Middle Ages will discuss their research. Students, PhD’s and staff are most welcome to attend. The lectures…

On May 30 and 31, a workshop will take place at the Dutch Art Historical Institute in Florence (NIKI). This workshop aims to further our understanding of how late medieval societies reconciled the partially contradictory ideals and expectations of Ecclesia and Iustitia at a collective and individual…