Congres/symposium, Workshop

Studievoorlichting

In February 2017 our faculty newsletter included an announcement on lecturing in China. I immediately thought I should apply.

Het nieuwste onderzoek uit het Leids openlucht laboratorium ‘Levend Lab’ toont aan dat het insecticide thiacloprid zelfs de meest voorkomende en robuuste waterjuffersoort in ons land sterk beïnvloedt. Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in Journal of Applied Ecology. Verschillende media besteedden aandacht…

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…

Ook het milieu profiteert als mensen hun nationale voedingsrichtlijnen te volgen, toonde Paul Behrens aan in onderzoek gepubliceerd in PNAS. De publicatie trok media-aandacht in binnen- en buitenland.

The 2023 Conference: Institutions for Conflict Resolution (COI) aims to identify just institutional approaches that seek (real) conflict prevention and conflict resolution in the legal context. It will be held in Utrecht on 28 and 29 September 2023. We welcome abstracts from all researchers around the…

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

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.

This new Casebook features the work of an international, interdisciplinary research group entitled ‘The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry’.

As per January 1st, Niek Strohmaier is part of Kifid’s arbitration committee.

Het Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies nodigt PhD's en andere early-career-onderzoekers uit om hun onderzoek te presenteren op de landelijke Mediëvistendag 2023. Deadline voor abstracts: 30 september.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

Hoe bestudeer je de gecompliceerde verhouding die de religieuze minderheden in het Midden-Oosten door de tijd heen gehad hebben met de islamitische meerderheden? Welke rol speelt taal? Hoe reflecteren deze processen van in- en uitsluiting zich in de manier waarop mensen zich kleden?

Claire Weeda, Robert Stein, and Louis Sicking have published a collection of essays in honour of Em. Prof. dr. Peter Hoppenbrouwers - also the former Scientific Director of the Research School of Medieval Studies. The contributions can be consulted freely online.

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.

On Thursday, 21 April, at 15.00 CEST Derek Kennet and Fernando Casamayor-Molina will give a guest lecture at Radboud University (Senaatzaal, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen). This lecture will be held live though it is also possible to join online via zoom. To register, please email: peter.brown@ru.nl.

Het Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centrum voor BOLD Cities maakt gebruik van multidisciplinair big data-onderzoek om oplossingen te vinden voor stedelijke problemen. 'BOLD' staat voor 'Big, Open and Linked Data'. Data science is een van de belangrijkste disciplines van het Center.

Institute for Security and Global Affairs en Dual PhD Centre organiseren op 23 april gezamenlijk een online lezing van Cleveringa hoogleraar generaal Roméo Dallaire over

The Turnaround, Rescue and Insolvency Research Team presents in its most recent newsletter of June 2017 an update on its currrent research and developments. The Newsletter reports on the international and multidisciplinary perspective the TRI Leiden Research Team applies in studying and promoting efficient…

Climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of natural and cultural landscapes, and many other (ecological) sustainability challenges urge us to (re)evaluate human interaction with the natural world. This renewed environmental consciousness has invigorated not only scientists working on effects…

In June 2024, the University of Groningen organizes a summer school, titled "Things that Matter". The Summer School explores challenges in digitizing source materials, questioning distinctions between physical and digital copies. It delves into the impact of virtual collections and criteria for digitization,…

Radboud University is looking for a PhD researcher who will investigate the afterlife of medieval thought in early modern Europe through the study of concrete instances of intellectual transfer, for instance the appropriation of specific medieval authors or early modern revaluations of specific themes…

Prof. em. Wim Blockmans (Leiden University) has given an interview to ‘De Nieuwe Wereld’ (in Dutch). He talks about his latest book 'Medezeggenschap. Politieke participatie in Europa vóór 1800'. Take also a look at the YouTube channel of this Dutch philosophy collective as other videos feature medievalists…

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…

Read all about the experiences of our students who followed one of the Academic Language Center's (online) courses in the past semester.

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Big celebration upcoming weekend: MIRD's 20th anniversary is on the cards. Four alumni from different periods tell what this unique two-year master's in International Relations and Diplomacy has brought them.

Met trots kunnen wij meedelen dat het boek ‘Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy’ gepubliceerd is. De editors van dit boek zijn Prof. dr. mr. J.A.A. Adriaanse en Prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest. Beide zijn werkzaam bij de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid.

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.

Professor Barend Mons has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group

Leiden Law School heeft recent een Memorandum of Understanding getekend met UC Berkeley Extension/UC Berkeley School of Law.

The Synergy Award aims to connect PhD students with academic and non-academic professionals to explore the practical dimensions of their research. Four candidates will be invited to pitch their compelling impact ideas to a jury at Synergy 2021. Each pitch will also be broadcast to a live audience during…

This Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) aims to explore how early modern individuals and groups branded themselves through their heraldic presentation on contemporary social media and materials. Although this call for papers focuses on the period 1500-1800,…

‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ is a European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that will support 13 PhD researchers undertaking projects on late medieval and early modern books. These PhD researchers will be spread across the following institutions: University of Galway (3 positions),…

Op 29 januari 2019 verdedigt Robbert J. van Eijk zijn Ph.D-proefschrift, waarin hij de online advertenties onderzoekt die u lijken te volgen.

On 28 September, the Medieval Murder Maps website will be shared publicly for the first time. The makers have used fourteenth-century coroners' rolls to map the homicides in three medieval towns: London, York, and Oxford. These digital maps are interactive and come with podcasts of interesting cases,…

By virtue of the legacy of prof. Maartje Draak, which is administered by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Celtic Studies section of Utrecht University is able to organise the Maartje Draak Seminars in which international Celticists visit Utrecht for intensive workshops and sem…

The ultimate aim of this project (initiated by the European Law Institute) is to design a framework that will enable the further development of coherent and functional rules for business rescue in Europe.

Learning a programming language is challenging. Even one of the first –but crucial– concepts to learn, variables, is hard to grasp. Variables can represent different roles and functions within a code and need to be named appropriately to support code comprehension and debugging.

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

We are very excited to announce our Sustainability Series for 2023-2024. Each month an interactive workshop will be organised that discusses a specific theme of sustainability. Interested about sustainability? Do not hesitate to sign up to our events !

In het voorjaarssemester biedt het NIMAR universitaire en hbo-studenten twee engelstalige tracks van 30 EC. Bij beide tracks ligt de focus op het bevorderen van taal- en linguïstische vaardigheden, maar de tracks bieden ook een diepgaande kennismaking met de Marokkaanse cultuur en samenleving.

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LUC The Hague biedt een driejarige bacheloropleiding aan in Liberal Arts & Sciences. Deze brede en uitdagende bacheloropleiding wordt volledig in het Engels gegeven, en heeft als centraal thema ‘Global Challenges’: grote uitdagingen waar de wereld en mensheid voor staat.

Je volgt een basispakket met informaticavakken, economievakken en speciale integratievakken.

My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…