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…

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Op zaterdag 13 mei organiseert ISN Leiden de 11e editie van het International Cultural Festival. Het festival brengt internationale studenten, Leidse studenten en inwoners uit Leiden en omstreken samen voor een reis rond de wereld in één dag.

Gedragsbioloog Frans de Waal houdt op 4 juni de jaarlijkse Vrijheidslezing in de Leidse Pieterskerk. De Waal doet al tientallen jaren onderzoek naar het gedrag van mensapen.

De Leidse archeoloog Harold Berghuis was nauw betrokken bij archeologische vondsten voor de kust van Java. Schedelfragmenten en andere fossiele resten geven nieuwe inzichten in de leefwereld van de Homo erectus. De vondst was het onderwerp van vele nieuwsberichten.

Bij de overgang van het Neolithicum naar het Bronzen Tijdperk vond er een maatschappelijke botsing plaats tussen een door mannen gedomineerde oligarchie (ook wel het patriarchaat genoemd) en het matriarchaat. De laatste slaagde erin kwetsbaarheden in de 'bro-code' uit te buiten om het besturingssysteem…

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

What are the pressing issues of our time, and how can different disciplines come together to address them? Studium Generale and Leiden University College (LUC) present the Global Challenges series: events that bring together researchers from LUC and experts from other disciplines to tackle a shared…

Op 6 december heeft Céril van Leeuwen de Jaap Doek Kinderrechtenscriptieprijs gewonnen voor haar scriptie:

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.

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His two year Rubicon project is about the effect of university policies on societal engagement of academics in the social sciences and humanities.

The Radboud University offers a 4-year PhD position on anchoring religious change in Late Antiquity: Writing the Rules of Life. Anchoring Church Law between Constantine the Great and Charlemagne. Deadline for applications: 24 April 2023.

The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen offers three four-year scholarships to complete a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies. Deadline: 14 July 2021.

Leiden University has an opening for a PhD position (4 years) under the supervision of Professor Miguel John Versluys. It is part of the Anchoring Innovation Project. Deadline: 7 November 2021.

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The KNIR organises up to three Colloquia each year with no more than fifteen participants. All university lecturers working at an NWIB University can apply for this. The selection of candidates focuses on the quality of the application, on motivation and on the relationship with KNIR, Rome and/or Italy.…

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.

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 Medieval Studies at Central European University (Vienna) is pleased to announce its call for applications for MA and PhD positions for the 2021/2022 academic year. The deadline is February 1, 2021.

Within the Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception” at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 1 postdoctoral position is to be filled by 1 April 2023, for a period of up to 4,5 years. Deadline: 5 January 2023.

There is an opening for a postdoc position at the University of Bern. The Swiss National Science Foundation has granted Prof. Dr Michael Stolz funding for four years for research on the library of the 15th century humanist Sigmund Gossembrot. The deadline for submission has been extended to 14 Novem…

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Researchers from the Department of Economics - Kees Goudswaard, Koen Caminada, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning and Olaf van Vliet - have been awarded a grant of one million euros by Instituut Gak to investigate self-sufficiency and social protection.

Van 16 tot en met 18 maart vond de Global Summit on Constitutonalism plaats. Namens de Leidse afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht zijn Wim Voermans, Gert Jan Geertjes en Rowie Stolk afgereisd naar Austin, waar de University of Texas at Austin, School of Law de conferentie organiseerde.

Met steun van uitgevers en particuliere stichtingen verwelkomen de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) en het Scaliger Instituut circa 15 tot 20 Fellows en gastonderzoekers per jaar om materiaal in de Bijzondere Collecties te raadplegen en te onderzoeken. Ook dit jaar ontving het Scaliger Instituut…