Fotograaf en antropoloog Teun Voeten is al decennialang getuige van grote politieke brandhaarden. Dat bracht hem een avontuurlijk leven en leverde hem een doctorstitel op. Hij promoveerde eind 2018 op Mexicaans drugsgeweld.

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.

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…

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 14 June to 15 July 2020 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice.

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.

Molecular Science & Technology-student Renske Donkers heeft de tweede editie van de Young Star Award gewonnen. Daarnaast kregen maar liefst drie docenten de titel ‘Teacher of the Year’ toebedeeld tijdens de uitreiking op woensdag 17 februari. Tot slot hadden studenten een verrassing voor alle docenten…

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.

In 2014 ontving Hans-Martien ten Napel een Research Fellowship in Legal Studies aan het Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ. Het boek dat hij schreef als uitvloeisel van dit fellowship is vorige week verschenen bij Routledge Law.

Een internationaal team van meer dan 200 astronomen uit 18 landen heeft honderdduizenden nooit eerder waargenomen sterrenstelsels gepubliceerd. De publicatie maakt deel uit van een project onder leiding van Leids hoogleraar Huub Röttgering. Media in binnen- en buitenland besteedden aandacht aan de o…

Milan van der Kuil, Anne Visser, Andrea Evers en Ineke van der Ham hebben een artikel gepubliceerd in Frontiers in Psychology, getiteld: A usability study of a serious game in cognitive rehabilitation: a compensatory navigation training in acquired brain injury patients. Ze beschrijven hierin hoe serious…

Op woensdag 9 november vond het landelijke citizen science project ‘Alle Scholen Verzamelen’ plaats. In dit project van de nationale Wetenschapsknooppunten werkten wetenschappers samen met basisscholen in heel Nederland aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de sociale omgeving van basisschoolleerlingen.…

Veel mensen moeten er niet aan denken, op je 62e beginnen met promoveren. Toch was het voor de voormalige Teylers Museum conservator Bert Sliggers als een droom die uitkwam: ‘De kans die ik kreeg voelde als een cadeau, het heeft mij en het museum veel gebracht.’

Stel, je krijgt als student een notificatie op je mobiel. Je persoonlijke code geel, oranje of rood voor dreigende psychische problemen of zelfs een depressie. Toekomstmuziek? Niet voor wetenschapper Eiko Fried. 'Er is een reële kans dat we sommige geestelijke gezondheidsproblemen voorkomen voordat…

Op 13 december 2024 vond op de rechtenfaculteit van de Universiteit Leiden de jaarlijkse staatsrechtconferentie plaats. Dit jaar stond de conferentie in het teken van het thema ‘The Constitution outside the Constitution’.

Bij kraken denk je waarschijnlijk aan jongeren in de grotere steden van Nederland. Ook Leiden kent een kraakgeschiedenis, en die geschiedenis is zeer divers.

This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…

This volume, edited by Kay Boers, Becca Grose (University of St Andrews), Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin) and Guy Walker (Trinity College Dublin), brings together eight essays by eminent scholars and early career researchers, reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure in Late Antiquity (c. 150…

Alle vijf afleveringen van het eerste seizoen van 'Breingeheim' zijn nu te beluisteren op Spotify. Studenten en wetenschappers shuiven aan dezelfde tafel aan om het raadsel van het jongvolwassenbrein te ontrafelen. Wetenschappelijke antwoorden op prangende vragen over of je je brein kan trainen en over…

In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…

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…

On Friday, 29 October 2021 (15.15-17.00), this year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Howard Louthan, (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) at the Faculty Club of Leiden University. It will be titled ‘Revisiting a Renaissance Classic: Theuerdank, Maximilian I (1486-1519) and the Discovery of…

Wetenschappers moeten gemakkelijker gebruik kunnen maken van elkaars data, vindt een groep onderzoekers van verschillende universiteiten. Daarvoor ontwikkelden ze de FAIR-principes. BNR Nieuwsradio sprak erover met initiatiefnemer Barend Mons, hoogleraar Biosemantiek aan het Leids Universitair Medisch…

Graduate students at Central European University and the University of Vienna invite abstracts from MA and PhD students in the fields of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies for a graduate conference with the theme 'Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving' (16-17 May 2025, Vienna).

Lecture and Masterclass with Alexandra Sapoznik (King's College London) Connecting economic and environmental histories in the pre-modern world 12 and 13 May 2025, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Deadline for submissions: 29 April 2025, 13:00

Waarvoor gebruiken vluchtelingen hun mobiele telefoons? En wat betekent dat voor hulpverleners in opvangkampen? Het Leiden Centre for Innovation bestudeerde dit onderwerp samen met onderzoekers van Harvard Humanitarian Initiative en Data & Society.

On 25 and 26 October 2024, the first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries, is scheduled to take place at Leiden University.

The KNIR seminar 'Reasoning to Believe' will concentrate on early modern sermons, a genre of tremendous impact on European culture not just in the period of the Reformation but throughout. We will lecture on the practice of sermons in the period 1200-1650 throughout and beyond Europe, concentrating…

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…

Conatus News heeft een uitvoerige recensie gepubliceerd van het boek The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law van Paul Cliteur en Tom Herrenberg.

North Sea Crossings, a new exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, will trace the long history of Anglo-Dutch relations. Focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, items from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections will illustrate the ways in which these exchanges…

On the occasion of the appearance of the monograph "Varieties of the Self.Peter Abelard and the Mental Architecture of the Paraclete" written by Babette Hellemans and published at Brill in 2023, a workshop will be organized concerning rules of observance as ‘texts of life’ in ascetic communities. The…

The Belgian-Dutch Bookbindings Society and the Consortium for European Research Libraries cordially invite anyone with an interest in bookbindings to attend.

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…

New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

From September 2024, the existing departments of History and Medieval Studies will join forces and launch CEU’s new Department of Historical Studies. Our research and teaching are recognized for their innovative approach to graduate education, and our international faculty offers expertise that extends…

On Friday 23 September 2016 the Leiden Complex Networks Network day, the LCN2 day, will take place in Leiden.

'Wat doen ze met slangengif?' Die vraag stelde de elfjarige Joep aan televisieprogramma Willem Wever. Leids hoogleraar Evolutionaire ontwikkelingszoölogie en slangengifexpert Michael Richardson geeft in zijn laboratorium het antwoord.

The University of Poitier and UCLouvain organize two study days on the topic of funerary poetry. The aim of these sessions is to study poetic expressions of mourning in the light of their medium, their style and their usage. The study days will be held respectively in Poitiers (France) on September…

The Diplo21 network organizes scientific meetings to provide young researchers working on diplomacy and written practices in medieval Europe with a forum for scientific dialogue and debate, independent of national historiographic traditions. The first theme chosen is 'the charter's spaces'. The particular…

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

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…

‘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),…

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given…

The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In…

Students of the Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) of the University of Groningen kindly invite you to the annual CMEMS conference. This year we will explore the processes that structure physical and symbolic borders and boundaries in different contexts and histories.…

This international workshop 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 millennium CE. The keynote address will be given by Hendrik…

New PhD opportunity at University of Amsterdam in 'Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones'. Deadline for application: 15 April 2025

Jeroen Bussmann ontdekte een nieuwe manier om te zorgen dat nanodeeltjes die medicijnen op een specifieke plek in het lichaam moeten brengen, niet te vroeg worden afgebroken in de lever. Uiteenlopende media berichtten over zijn ontdekking.

The ministry of education (OC en W) has generously decided to subsidize the Encompass program with a grant of 1 million euro’s for the years 2012-2016.

Utrecht University is looking for two researchers (1 PhD candidate and 1 Postdoc) to form the team of the VIDI project Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE, granted to dr. Robert Flierman and running from 2023-2027. As a postdoc, you will work together with the…