Wat zich ontvouwde in gedeelde keukens, langs smalle gangen en rondom woensdagse koffietafels werd meer dan een opdracht. Het werd een levende verkenning van wat ouder worden in de praktijk betekent.

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

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…

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.

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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Lezing, Lezingenreeks vergelijkende Indo-Europese taalwetenschap (VIET)

Lezing, LUCIS What's New?! Series

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Lezing, SMILE Talks

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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…

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.

My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…

De Universiteit Leiden organiseerde haar eerste universiteitsbrede iftar, een bijeenkomst voor ontmoeting en dialoog over culturele en religieuze diversiteit. Dit initiatief werd mogelijk gemaakt door de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, POPcorner-FSW, studentenvereniging SABR en POPcorner Den Haag.

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Alexander Strelkov gaf op 3 juli een lezing over de rechtsstaat en toetreding tot de EU voor een groep diplomaten uit de Balkanregio.

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 XIIth Annual Conference of LECTIO in 2023 will examine the foundation and first centuries of the University of Louvain as a unique crossroads of the transfer of texts, ideas, and images between Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance. It serves as a stepping stone for the celebrations of 600 years…

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 University of Oslo offers a two-year senior researcher position with focus on early medieval Latin additions with musical notation. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities, internal seminars, workshops, and…

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.…

Ter ere van 10 samenwerking tussen Kenya Wildlife Service en de Universiteit Leiden bezocht een Leidse delegatie Nairobi National Park. Een nieuwe leeuw kreeg hierbij een halsband en de naam Karel.

The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a one-year position as Lecturer ('docent') in Celtic Languages and Culture, starting September 1, 2022 (0.7 FTE). Teaching will be primarily at Bachelor level,…

Within the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, which is financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation), there are at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 6 positions for doctoral research associates (pay…

The University of Oslo offers two three-year postdoctoral positions: one with a background in early medieval liturgy and the other in early medieval cultures of healing. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities,…

This conference explores how reading experiences were shaped both by producers and users of vernacular books. By adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective (combining book history, literary history, art history, religious studies, and history of knowledge) it aims to contribute to the…

Wanneer heb je voor het laatst vuur gemaakt? Geen kaars aansteken met een lucifer, maar een echt vuur vanaf nul? Duizenden jaren geleden maakten mensen al vuur. Archeoloog Andrew Sorensen (Universiteit Leiden) legt uit wanneer en hoe ze dat deden.

The conference cycle Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words, co-organised by the IRHT (CNRS) and Institute of Polish Language (PAS) aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. This year's edition focuses on the concepts of FEAST, CELEBRATION…

Het NPO3 programma Keuringsdienst van Waarde ging in de uitzending van 18 juli 2019 op zoek naar de oorsprong van BBQ-smaak. Prehistorisch-vuurexpert Andrew Sorensen toonde in het programma vuurmaaktechnieken van de prehistorische mens.

The University of Oslo offers two three-year PhD positions with focus on specific early medieval Latin textual additions. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities, internal seminars, workshops, and conferences.…

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…