Pubers die op de basisschool zeer geliefd waren bij hun klasgenoten zijn vaker bereid eerlijk te delen met een ander. Tijdens het delen worden bij hen ‘sociale’ hersengebieden sterker geactiveerd dan bij pubers die door de jaren heen minder geliefd waren. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van ontwikkelingspsycholoog…

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.

De lezing vindt plaats op woensdag 29 mei 2013 en is getiteld ‘Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars’. De Halley Lecture aan de Universiteit van Oxford is opgericht door de wijlen Henry Wilde, bij de terugkomst van de comeet Halley in 1910. De lezing wordt jaarlijks…

Women In International Security (WIIS) is a global organisation dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace and security. As part of her research on women, peace and security, Dr. Vanessa Newby at the Institute for Security and Global…

At the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs we are proud to celebrate social entrepreneurship, which is why we decided to introduce you to an amazing project by two of our students: Kimberly Schoenmaker and Caroline Flohr. Ambitious, driven and incredibly conscious of the corporate responsibility…

Zin om eens een ander vakgebied te verkennen? Of juist een onderwerp uit je studie verder uit te diepen? Ook deze zomer biedt de Universiteit Leiden weer een brede selectie Summer Schools aan.

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.

Op deze pagina vindt u het overzicht van zowel de aankomende als de afgeronde alumniwebinars/masterclasses van de Universiteit Leiden. Bij elk afgerond webinar/masterclass vindt u de link naar de opname.

Ontdek het veelzijdige onderwijsaanbod voor professionals van Universiteit Leiden Academy. Op deze pagina kunt u gratis webinars bekijken die direct aansluiten bij actuele onderwerpen en uitdagingen in uw vakgebied.

Maandag 23 mei, 16.00 -17.00 uur, zaal 174 Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden.

Launch your own start-up!

The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities has awarded some small research grants to foster the developments of new digital research. These projects began in February 2018. On the 9th of October, these awardees will present their work, along with our PhD students.

A warm welcome to the students of the Master’s Programme in European Law 2018-2019. This year, we expect around 60 students who will start this LL.M. programme, organised by the Europa Institute. Our faculty staff is excited to meet you and to teach you all aspects of European Law.

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’.

Leidse astronomen en hun team vonden half januari verschillende interessante moleculen in de donkerste en koudste dieptes van een stervormende gaswolk. Ze kregen hierbij hulp van de nieuwe James Webb telescoop. Ze vertellen erover bij Meer Wetenschap Vandaag op BNR.

On November 27-28 2025, the congress 'Disability and inclusion in the medieval city: a comparative view between Europe and the Islamic World' will be held at the university of Cantabaria, Spain. The deadline for submissions is 13 October, 2025

Abstract submission is now open for the international conference of the ELS Academy, in Amsterdam on September 1 and 2.

The University of Groningen is looking for an assistant professor in Medieval history for 1,0 FTE. Deadline for applications: 23 March 2025.

Data Science seminar at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

On 19 January (15:30-16:30), the Nicholas Brunmayr (Bruxelles) will give a talk on medieval butter trade at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History.

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.

In April 2022 a new monograph by Carine van Rhijn (Utrecht) will be published, entitled "Leading the Way to Heaven. Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period".

On 21-23 September 2022 Utrecht University will host an international conference titled 'Multilingual Dynamics of Medieval Literature in Western Europe'.

On 8 October 2021 (15.00-17.00) Prof. Dr Lena Liepe (Linnaeus University, Sweden) will hold a lecture entitled: "Exhibiting the Sacred: Holy Matter in Museum Displays".

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.

In november werd in Leiden de eerste Nederlandse vertaling van het verzamelde werk van de twintigste-eeuwse dichter W.H. Auden gepresenteerd. De gebeurtenis werd luister bijgezet met een poëzievertaalwedstrijd, die drie winnaars opleverde.

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?

The Israeli Forum of Early Medieval Studies at The Hebrew University of Jeruzalem invites you to a lecture by Ian Wood. This lecture is entitled "Beyond the Transformation of the Roman West" and will be held on Thursday, July 1st, at 6.30 pm - 8 pm IDT.

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).

This postponed international workshop will now be held on a digital platform. It seeks to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to work on the interrelated aspects of ancient and early medieval walls in the Mediterranean and northwestern Europe throughout the first…

The Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg organize their third Summer School Medieval Writing Culture (V to XV century), which will be held from 16 till 20 May 2022. Deadline for applications: 3 March 2022.

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.

A series of sessions on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations (c. 1050-c. 1600) will be held at the Society for Renaissance Studies (29 June - 1 July 2021).

The IGTM kindly invites you to its third Virtual Winter Lecture, which will be given by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Linde (Universität Greifswald) on Thursday 1 6February 2023, 8pm (CET). Please register for this free Zoom-lecture by Monday, January 31, 2023, by sending an e-mail to K.Pansters@tilburgunivers…

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:…

Theo Lap (RUG) will defend his PhD thesis (Consoling for Homesickness: The Transformation of Worldly Bonds in Three 12th-Century Monastic Letter Collections) on Thursday, 11 November 2021, at 14:30. Theo was part of the NWO-funded research project 'Communication and Exploitation of Knowledge' (2016–…

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.

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.”

On 21 October, Andrea van Leerdam will defend her thesis ‘Woodcuts as Reading Guides. How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550)’. To register, send an email to woodcutsasreadingguides@gmail.com.

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.

On 27-29 October 2021, the ERC Project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages, Radboud University Nijmegen) will organize the International Workshop On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies. Deadline for submission: 10 May 2021.

In October and December 2021, Al-Babtain Visiting Professor Hugh Kennedy will teach six masterclasses at Leiden University on the idea of a “Greater Mesopotamia” and its fundamental importance in understanding the economy and geopolitics of the early Islamic world, from 650 to 1050 CE.

This year’s UCMS Seminar, on 14 October 2022, will be devoted to the connections between reading cultures and the transforming material features of the medieval book: from scroll to codex, from parchment to paper, from manuscript to print, and recently from printed to digital facsimiles.

The department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University is looking for 3 PhD Candidates who will be working within the project ‘Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty’, which is funded by the European Research Council. Deadline: 15 October 2022.

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.

On 11 and 12 April 2024, the University of Namur will host the colloquium "Mobilités et échanges dans l’espace rhéno-mosan (IXe–XVe s.)". The programme can be found below.