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.

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

NOSTER, the Dutch National research school for Theology and Religious Studies, organizes a Coptic Course in the fall of 2023. Students can enroll until October 1.

Leiden University College The Hague is één van de beste university colleges van Nederland. Dat blijkt uit de jaarlijkse ranglijst in de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.

Hoogleraar Rechtssociologie Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Instituut, Metajuridica) is met ingang van heden voor een periode van 3 jaar aangesteld als visiting professor bij het Department of Criminology & Sociology of Law van de Universiteit van Oslo in Noorwegen.

The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a postdoctoral Researcher (0.8 fte for 3 years) in the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER). Candidates are…

The programme of the PASSIM conference (Rome, 17-20 October) has been announced. See below for more information.

From 27 until 29 October 2021, the ERC project PASSIM organizes an international workshop on the future of digital manuscript studies.

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".

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Terrorisme, crisis, geweld, inlichtingen, diplomatie, oorlog en vrede zijn onderwerpen die breed aan bod komen in de onderzoeksactiviteiten van ISGA. Regelmatig verschijnen ISGA-onderzoekers in internationale media om hun onderzoeksexpertise te bespreken. Dit item biedt een overzicht van niet-Nederlandse…

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.

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.

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.

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In de herfteditie van ‘@OCW’, het interne magazine van het Minsterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, staat

Studievoorlichting, Online Experience

Studievoorlichting, Online Experience

LUC-studenten onderzoeken rivierherstel in de Geul met sedimentonderzoek, waterkwaliteitsmetingen en analyse van biodiversiteit

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.…

From 26 until 28 January 2022 an international conference will take place in Rome, entitled: "The Responsible Society in Early Modern Christianity". The conference aims to center on the question how the topic of social responsibility was dealt with in Early Modern Christianity (ca.1400-ca.1700). The…

A two-day workshop will be organized in Tilburg in December 2023, which has the goal to bring together scholars working on urban history, legal history and economic history of the later medieval and early modern period. The workshop focuses on the sovereignty of cities of trade. Deadline for abstracts:…

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…

On 17-20 October 2023, the ERC-funded project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages), based at Radboud University Nijmegen, will organise an international conference on the medieval reception and transmission of patristic sermons and the collections in which they are compiled. The conference…

This conference investigates the specific role of mobility and materiality in the creation of (trans)regional sacred landscapes and cityscapes, taking a longue durée perspective. In particular, our aim is to address the role of mobility of objects, texts, and persons in the creation of sacred topographies.…

De Universiteit Leiden bestaat 444 jaar en dat vieren we natuurlijk met de inwoners van Leiden en Den Haag. Het feestjaar wordt dan ook afgetrapt met een expositie op een symbolische plek: in het Leidse stadhuis.