Uit een studie van Radboudumc samen met de Leidse onderzoekers Andrea Evers en Henriët van Middendorp blijkt dat patiënten met blijvende klachten door de ziekte van Lyme geen baat hebben bij een langdurige antibioticabehandeling. Publicatie in 'The New England Journal of Medicine'.

Presteer je beter en raak je minder snel vermoeid als je staand achter je computer werkt? De Leidse cognitief psycholoog Henk van Steenbergen gaat dit onderzoeken met een beurs van de Gratama Stichting en het Leids Universiteits Fonds.

Gezondheidspsycholoog Andrea Evers onderzoekt met een ERC Consolidator Grant voor excellente onderzoekers hoe verwachtingen over gezondheid de ziekte-uitkomsten beïnvloedden. Onlangs is een extra ERC Proof of Concept subsidie aan Evers toegekend om aansluitend innovatieve therapeutische interventies…

Met ingang van 1 november 2025 is universitair hoofddocent Ethics and Digital Technologies Francien Dechesne benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar ‘Data and AI for the Rule of Law’ aan de Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences van Tilburg University.

Kinderen die wat minder flexibel leren, worden snel onderschat in wat ze kunnen. Met een dynamische manier van testen blijken ze echter even goede prestaties te leveren als leeftijdsgenootjes, ontdekte psycholoog Femke Stad. Promotie 11 januari.

Vijf vragen over het evenement ‘Duitsland na de verkiezingen: gevolgen voor het buitenlands beleid en de Europese veiligheid’, beantwoord door een van de deskundigen, Joachim Koops. Kom langs op de Spaanse Trappen in Wijnhaven op vrijdag 15 oktober of doe online mee (link onderaan).

In January 2021, eLaw joined the Computers Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference that is about privacy and data protection. The group on Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University put together a panel that combined perspectives on Art, Society, & Technology.

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…

Het was lastig om ambtenaren van de eerste Trump-administratie zover te krijgen te spreken over hun ervaringen op werk, maar het lukte socioloog Jaime Lee Kucinskas. Het beeld dat daaruit is ontstaan, is volgens haar niet al te best. ‘Hoe meer ik met ze sprak, hoe meer emoties ik zag. Ze waren ontzettend…

In de serie tafelgesprekken ‘Van kluis naar kussen’ krijgt de kijker een blik achter de schermen van de Bijzondere Collecties. In deze speciale uitzending staat uitgeverij Brill, de oudste uitgeverij van Nederland, centraal. Van deze Leidse uitgever zijn momenteel diverse boeken in de zomertentoonstelling…

In 2015 the Pascalchair of the Faculty of Science, Universiteit Leiden and in particular of Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, is held by Prof. Dr. Natasa Jonoska, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.

As Leiden Law students, we are now in the digital age, 'where we believe law and technology should go together.' After all, for us, it is important to look beyond trodden paths of established legal knowledge. The books on law and case law surely will not be sufficient for the lawyer of the future. That…

Artikel: “The paradox of being on the glass cliff: why do women accept risky leadership positions?”

LUC is the first to confer the diploma of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, the new Faculty name since January 2016 making this graduation an extra special occasion.

We are excited to share that the article, Does pre‐packed bankruptcy create value? An empirical study of post-bankruptcy employment retention in The Netherlands, by our colleagues, Jan Adriaanse, Jean-Pierre van der Rest, Gert-Jan Boon, and Reinout Vriesendorp, published in the International Insolvency…

Launch your own start-up!

Onze promovenda Maral Darouei heeft in samenwerking met haar dagelijkse begeleider Helen Pluut een artikel gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Career Development International (5-year IF = 2.704). Het paper is getiteld “The paradox of being on the glass cliff: Why do women accept risky leadership positions”.…

Prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest heeft twee nieuwe publicaties en zijn tweede editie van het tekstboek “Hospitality Experience” is uit.

De ontdekking dat elf planetoïden mogelijk met de aarde zullen botsen is wereldnieuws. Het onderzoek van drie Leidse sterrenkundigen verscheen wereldwijd op meer dan 190 nieuwssites, van Amerika tot China. Ze ontwikkelden en trainden hiervoor een kunstmatig neuraal netwerk.

Op dinsdag 1 december hebben masterstudenten European Law Pien Offerhaus en Carina van Os de Migratie Annotatiewedstrijd 2020 gewonnen.

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

Contacts between English and Dutch speakers had a profound impact on the literary landscape and book culture of England and the Low Countries. This conference crosses conventional chronological, linguistic, geographical and disciplinary boundaries to explore the cultural history of relations between…

The NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) awarded prof. Joost van Batenburg with the Vici grant 2015 for his research project ‘Real-time 3D Tomography’.

(PhD) students are encouraged to participate in Research School Join-in courses. These are courses that are offered by other Research Schools but open to our students as well.

You are invited to sign in for the Tabula Gratulatoria for a volume that has been composed for the occasion of Prof. Dr Marc Boone’s retirement.

The conference 'Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology' is focused on identifying and examining the connections that create or lie behind parallels between philological methods and traditions in various cultures. Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2022.

Quantummechanica voor iedereen

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.

Een meerderheid van de Russen heeft een positief beeld van Nederland, blijkt uit een onderzoek dat op vrijdag 14 februari werd gepresenteerd tijdens een symposium op de Campus Den Haag. Of de positieve opvattingen van Russen ook zullen leiden tot een doorbraak in de betrekkingen tussen Nederland…

De onderzoeksgroep Organizational & Entrepreneurial Behavior onderzoekt het gedrag van individuen en groepen die in organisaties werken, organisaties starten, of organisaties leiden, met als doel om organisatorische praktijken te informeren. Door zich te concentreren op het gedrag van (groepen) werknemers,…

The Huizinga Institute offers an online masterclass that explores how material, visual, and paratextual elements in manuscripts and printed books developed between 1400 and 1600, and how this influenced the ways in which readers navigated the book and experienced the text it contained. Deadline for…

Viabundus welcomes 10 minute-presentations about all kinds of research that could be performed with the aid of the Viabundus data, from experienced as much as early career researchers and students. Deadline: 9 September 2022.

For many centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated via media such as pamphlets, chronicles, poems, and prints. This conference welcomes contributions that engage with the cultural dimensions of disasters and reflect on representations of catastrophes in different media.

The Dutch Research School Art History (OSK) and Utrecht University organize the Technical Art History Days. On April 4 and 5, experts present and discuss current research at Utrecht University that brings together material and digital approaches for the study of art and heritage.

Princeton University has announced that planning for its annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference is underway. The conference will be held on March 6, 2021 (via Zoom) with the following theme: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.”

Spatial humanities are developing fast at the moment. This international expert meeting intends to bring together specialists from different disciplines in order to discuss possibilities, challenges, and next steps for spatial humanities that are concerned with late-medieval and early modern urban history…

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.

The Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university with a multi-disciplinary Medieval Department that offers MA and PhD programs in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies as well as in Cultural Heritage Studies. Deadline: 1 February 2023.

Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist invite essays that examine any aspect of race and religion in medieval culture and society for a special issue on race and religion in the Middle Ages. Deadline for submission: 1 February 2021.

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…

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…

Leiden University would like to express its concern about the proposed Hungarian higher education draft law, which, if adopted, would make the functioning of Central European University (CEU) in Budapest nearly impossible. These changes would endanger the academic freedom vital for CEU’s continued operation…

Het artikel ‘Putting emotions in routes: the influence of emotionally laden landmarks on spatial memory’ geschreven door Francesco Ruotolo, Michiel Claessen en Ineke van der Ham is verschenen in Psychological Research. Hierin wordt beschreven hoe de emotionele lading van de omgeving invloed heeft op…

Afgelopen week werd bekend dat Juliëtte Roding (LUCAS) en Odile Parsis (Université de Lille, Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion) van de Frans-Nederlandse Academie een Van Gogh-grant hebben ontvangen voor het multidisciplinaire onderzoek: 'North(s) in Memory: Heritage, Museum dynamics…

On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.

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.

CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from all disciplines. It is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (27-29 September 2021) and calls for the submission of extended abstracts.…

On Thursday the 17th of February, from 13h00-17h00, Chris Wickham (Oxford University) and Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham) will give two lectures at the Radboud University. This will be an in-person event, held at the Thomas van Aquinostraat 1, room 1.10.06 in Nijmegen. For those unable to…

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The Department of History at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in medieval and early modern European history, beginning July 1, 2024. The area of specialization is open, but we particularly seek candidates who will offer a…