The Research Training Group "Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War" is looking to appoint six PhD students. Candidates should apply before 15 November 2020.

On the 21st and 22nd of June, the students of the Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Groningen organise an online conference on the topic of otherness.

Scholarships at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for MA, MPhil and PhD students (deadline for applications: 15 May 2020)

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?

In 2025 vieren we dat de Universiteit Leiden al 450 jaar de tijd vooruit is. Bij Studium Generale grijpen we het lustrum aan om de Leidse Universiteitshoogleraren en interdisciplinair onderzoek in de schijnwerpers te zetten. Op iedere avond vertellen twee wetenschappers uit verschillende vakgebieden…

The Department of Architecture of KU Leuven is looking for two full-time PhD students (48 months) for the ERC-funded project "URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China before 1800", directed by Merlijn Hurx. Apply before: June 10

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.

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.

The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame accepts up to two, funded (tuition scholarship + full stipend) PhD students per year in Liturgical Studies. The program integrates three sub-disciplines: Liturgical History; Liturgical Theology; Ritual Studies. Deadline: 2 January 2023.

Princeton University has officially launched its website, MAFE: Middle Ages for Educators. MAFE is aimed at university and secondary students and educators and, more broadly, at anyone who is interested in studying, teaching, or learning more about Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

On 19 November 2021 the 41th Erasmus Birthday Lecture will be delivered by Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge University). In the morning she will offer a masterclass, entitled 'Commonplacing as a map to early modern culture', for 15 MA students and PhD candidates. Deadline for application: 1 November…

In the summer school 'Medieval Religion' students will be challenged by specialists in the field of medieval religion to position and develop their own research in relevant scholarly and cultural contexts. The instructors will give masterclasses from their own specialties. Deadline for registrations:…

Een kleine groep demonstranten van Students for Palestine heeft woensdagmiddag 26 november het Academiegebouw aan het Rapenburg bezet. De Cleveringa-oratie van politicoloog Hélène Landemore moest hierdoor verplaatst worden naar het Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw van de rechtenfaculteit.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Farouk El-Hosseny will join the teaching staff as Visiting Assistant Professor of International Law.

The first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries is scheduled for October 25 and 26, 2024. This event aims to facilitate the exchange of recent research, ongoing projects, and key discussions within the realm of environmental history among scholars from…

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…

The Kent University Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies organizes its annual MEMS-Festival. The festival is held in Canterbury on June 14 and 15. It offers both postgraduate and final year undergraduate students the chance to present their research in a professional academic environment to…

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.

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 October 31 and November 1, the second Moving Humanities conference will be organised by the University of Groningen and Radboud University. Moving Humanities offers a podium to graduate students from all disciplines in the humanities, and aims to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. This year,…

The Moving Humanities Conference will be held at the University of Groningen on October 31st and November 1st. Organised by Radboud University and the University of Groningen, this conference brings together master’s students, PhD candidates, and scholars from various fields within the humanities.…

On Thursday the 8th of June and Friday the 9th of June, the University of Groningen will be organising an interdisciplinary conference called ‘Facets of Feeling’. Through relevant historical case studies, we will analyse the universality of emotions and test the proposed theory. Additionally, we will…

The University of Groningen is organizing a summer school on the topic of Medieval “Lived Religion” this summer. In this interdisciplinary summer school Masters and PhD students will be challenged by leading specialists dealing with textual and material sources of medieval religious cultures. They will…

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…

ReMA and PhD students attached to the Research School for Medieval Studies can obtain 1 ECTS by actively attending the international conference "City, Citizen & Citizenship. New Perspectives on the Middle Ages, AD 400-1600" (16-18 June 2021). To this end, they will have to submit a written reflection…

Recent afgestudeerden van de Advanced Master Air and Space Law presenteerden hun paper 'Leiden LLM students and the legal and policy aspects of space resource utilization' op het International Astronautical Congress 2020.

Leiden University and the University of Warsaw organize a two-day conference on medieval fragmentology, with a special focus on the so-called N-Psalter. The conference will take place in the Regional Archive in Alkmaar. ReMA students can obtain 1-2 ECTS by attending the conference and completing an…

Lodi Nauta (RUG) organizes a workshop, titled "Humanist and Scholastic Roots of Early Modern Philosophy (1400-1700)" at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. It will take place from 19 until 24 April 2022 and it is open to maximum 15 students in philosophy or intellectual history at (R)MA or PhD-level.…

On 11 and 12 December, the Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (AIFG) organizes a graduate conference around the theme of "The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Medieval Germanic Traditions". PhD students and recent graduates who wish to present are encouraged to submit an abstract before…

The University of Göttingen is pleased to announce its annual international digital palaeography summer school. The summer school is intended as an intensive training programme for graduate students, in both traditional Latin palaeography and codicology, and in the latest digital technologies applicable…

On May 23 and 24, a masterclass is organized at Utrecht University on the theme of 'Reform'. Participating students will be rewarded 1 ECTS for preparation and presentation at the workshop, with the possibility of gaining another 2 ECTS to research and write a paper afterwards – for a total of 3 ECTS…

On Thursday, 30 September 2021 (14.00-17.00), Dr Linda Briggs, Staff Tutor in History at The Open University (UK) will organize a graduate workshop on interpreting royal entries in their European, national and local contexts at Utrecht University. This workshop is especially useful for research master…

Onderstaand een overzicht van alle vakken die door de afdeling Economie worden verzorgd.

On Saturday 16 January 2016, the Faculty of Archaeology opened its doors to welcome over 100 archaeology and living archaeology enthusiasts from all over the Netherlands. They were participating in a full-day symposium organised by Céline den Engelsman and Casper van Dijk, BA3-students from the archaeology…

Ook dit jaar is de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen veel actief geweest op social media. Nu het einde van het jaar in zicht is delen we met jou de meest spraakmakende berichten die gedeeld zijn op Instagram, Twitter en Facebook.

Professor Ken Meier is een van de meest vooraanstaande bestuurskundigen van de wereld. Meier is professor Public Management bij Cardiff School of Business (Wales), professor Bureaucracy and Democracy bij Leiden Universiteit, onderzoeker bij Danish Centre for Social Sciences Research (Kopenhagen, Denemarken)…

Leiden University Pride en de Leidse afdeling van de International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) organiseerden op 18 mei in het LUMC een succesvolle bijeenkomst over transgender. Sprekers waren een ervaringsdeskundige/activiste, en een behandelaar/onderzoekster. De diversity officer…

Het NVAO-panel, dat bestond uit twee Nederlandse en drie internationale hoogleraren, toonde zich zeer tevreden over de kwaliteit van zowel het onderwijs als de ondersteuning die aan studenten wordt geboden bij alle programma's.

Op Wereldvluchtelingendag (20 juni) herdenken we de kracht, de moed en het doorzettingsvermogen van miljoenen vluchtelingen. Universiteit Leiden zet zich in voor studenten met een vluchtelingenachtergrond. Zo is er sinds een jaar een Meeting Point en de Leiden Science Run zamelt geld in voor het UAF,…

Join us in Canterbury and online on the 13th and 14th June for the eleventh annual MEMS Festival at the University of Kent. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference. Deadline for abstracts, 4th of April.

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

Op de LION/Sterrewacht nieuwjaarsborrel heeft prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp de 2016 Hendrik Casimir Prize uitgereikt aan natuurkundestudenten Andrea Peña (Leiden) en Jorrit Hortensius (Delft). The Casimir Research School deelt jaarlijks de Hendrik Casimir Prize uit aan de beste masterstudenten in (technische)…

Oud-biologiestudent Benjamin van Soldt heeft de Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize for Erasmus Students 2015 gewonnen. Die gaat naar de Erasmusstudent van een van de Coimbra-universiteiten die wetenschappelijk gezien het meest uit de Erasmus-uitwisseling heeft gehaald.

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…

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces the summer session focused on the study of Medieval Greek, from June 26 to July 27, 2023. The Library invites applications for a month-long Summer Session for Medieval Greek at the Intermediate to Advanced Level. The…

Call for poster presentations: Future of Paleography, Paleography of the Future. 10 April 2025, Utrecht.

The Utrecht-based VIDI project Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, AD 481-751 is working on a new database of Merovingian epistolary communication. We are looking for enthusiastic (R)MA students who would like to join us this Fall as research apprentices for the first phase of data entry and analysis.…

Dr. Eun-Ju Kim (LIAS/ATC) heeft van NWO een Comenius Teaching Fellowship 2024 toegekend gekregen. De titel van haar project is

Workshop, 21-22 June On 21-22 June, Dr. C.V. Weeda (Leiden University) and Marie-Louise Leonard (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia) organize a workshop on Worker's health and material environment in Port Cities. The workshop focuses on interdisciplinary discussion. ReMA-students are given the opportunity…

Due to the COVID19 crisis (especially the impossibility to meet in person), the course "Foundations of Research-2" could not take place as scheduled. However, a second opportunity to participate in this course in October will be offered. The course is aimed at PhD students who are about halfway…