Scholarships at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for MA, MPhil and PhD students (deadline for applications: 15 May 2020)

The Radboud Institute for Culture and History is looking for a researcher/PhD candidate in the project 'The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts'. Deadline for applications: July 6.

The University of Fribourg has a vacancy for both a "professeur" and a "maître d'enseignement et de recherche" in Medieval History. Deadline for application: 30 June 2021.

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Extended deadline: 7 February 2023.

Hij heeft wel een antwoord op de vraag wat het kleinste deeltje is. Carlo Beenakker, hoogleraar Theoretische natuurkunde aan de Universiteit Leiden: ‘Dat is een puntdeeltje. Zo’n deeltje is altijd nul. Elektronen zijn puntdeeltjes; ze zijn zo klein dat je ze niet kapot kunt slaan.’ Maar: Beenakker geeft…

Seth Lloyd (MIT), een van de pioniers op het gebied van quantumcomputers, is dit jaar de Lorentz-Hoogleraar. Hij zal op 5 juni het Ehrenfest-colloquium houden, en op dinsdag 11, 18 en 15 juni lezingen over quantumcomputers.

Fotosynthese nabootsen om duurzaam en efficiënt bioplastic te maken. Onderzoekers van het Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL) en Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) gaan hiermee aan de slag. ‘Dit is een prachtige mogelijkheid om dit interessante onderzoeksveld samen te verkennen,’ vertellen Lennart Schada…

NWO heeft een €392k Projectruimte-subsidie toegekend aan natuurkundigen Koenraad Schalm en Jan Zaanen om onderzoek te doen naar vreemde metalen. Deze materialen worden verondersteld om zelfs op de alledaagse lengteschaal de bizarre wetten te volgen van de quantummechanica.

De razendsnelle ontwikkelingen in quantumcomputers, een nieuwe zwaartekrachttheorie en natuurlijk de telescopen van de Oude Sterrewacht. Ook dit jaar zit de Nacht van Kunst & Kennis weer boordevol bètawetenschap. Kom ook op zaterdag 16 september, en hoor, ervaar of zie het werk van onze collega’s!

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.

The Chair of Medieval Latin (University of Zurich) invites applications for two PhD positions in the field of Medieval Latin. The positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the project “Il mondo antico visto dalle glosse medievali”. Deadline: 31 December 2022.

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.…

LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2022-23. Deadline: 10 June 2022. For more information: lectio@kuleuven.be.

The University of Bologna organizes a Summer School in Classical Languages, offering intensive courses in Latin and/or Greek (20 June – 23 July 2022). The deadline for applications is: 10 June 2022.

The School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, invites applications for a full professorship within the field of history. The position is permanent and is available from 1 January 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline: 12 September 2022.

New Ph.D. programme implemented in collaboration between the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Application deadline is 30 April 2021, admission examinations take place on 14-16 June…

The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD Position in the ERC Starting Grant project Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550. Deadline: 30 November 2022.

LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2023-2024. Deadline for submissions: May 31.

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 2 positions for doctoral research associates (pay…

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 19 November 2021 the 41th Erasmus Birthday Lecture will be delivered by Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge University). In the morning she will offer a masterclass, entitled 'Commonplacing as a map to early modern culture', for 15 MA students and PhD candidates. Deadline for application: 1 November…

Applicants are encouraged to apply for this doctoral position, conducting research on the transmission of taste c. 1200-c.1400. The doctorate focuses on medieval English recipes in their social, historical, and intellectual context, with comparison to neighbouring food cultures in France and Germany.…

Een academische reflectie op de relevantie van verschillende methodes van empirisch onderzoek voor juristen.

Het comité belast met vraagstukken over internationale handel van het Britse Lagerhuis (House of Commons) citeerde onlangs dr. Joris Larik, universitair docent vergelijkend, EU- en internationaal recht aan het Leiden University College The Hague, in een rapport over de 'Continuing application of EU…

On 30 October 2020, Dr Mark Noort successfully defended his PhD investigation at the London School of Economics and political science (LSE) into

Natuurkundige Jan van Ruitenbeek over de terugtrekking van een Nature-artikel dat de ontdekking van Majorana-deeltjes claimt.

Een overzicht van awards en prijzen die in 2019 zijn toegekend aan onze medewerkers en studenten, maar ook bijzondere benoemingen aan de Universiteit Leiden en andere instellingen.

Shell onderzoekt samen met theoretische natuurkundigen en chemici van de Universiteit Leiden hoe quantumcomputeralgoritmen complexe moleculen kunnen simuleren.

Waarom is ijs glad. Wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Amsterdam zeggen dit verrassend raadselachtige verschijnsel opgelost te hebben. Schaatsexpert Tjerk Oosterkamp heeft kanttekeningen.

Prof. Carlo Beenakker heeft een European Research Council subsidie gewonnen van 1.5 miljoen Euro. Met dit geld gaat hij een onderzoeksteam opzetten van promovendi en postdocs.

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 University of Lille offers four postdoc positions in the ERC Advanced Grant 2020 AGRELITA Project, « The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities »,…

How does the medieval body of texts known as 'canon law' reflect social and moral ideas? With a combination of AI and an advanced dataset, can we reveal patterns in the transmission and alteration of these ideas over time? Join the SOLEMNE project as a research assistant to explore these questions and…

Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8 FTE) to be part of the research team of the ERC-funded project "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The Dissemination, Manipulation, and Interpretation of Late-Antique Sermons in…

Ghent University's Department of History is hiring 1 PhD researcher (m/f/x) for an FWO Senior Research project on the pragmatic, socio-economic and legal historical context in which the oldest borough charters in the Low Countries and northern France were negotiated and codified (late 11th-early 13th…

The ERC project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), led by Thijs Porck (Leiden University) is hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and 2 PhD's. Details on the individual projects can be found below. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024.

Het prestigieuze Multimedia onderzoeksvakblad 'ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP)' publiceert een lijst met een top 10 van de meest geciteerde wetenschappelijke artikelen. In de huidige lijst (Mei 2012), welke gerangschikt is op het aantal citaties,…

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…

A workshop is organized at St John's College, Oxford, on September 23-24. The workshop aims to bring together medievalists of all disciplines to discuss the research and teaching of ‘difficult’ or ‘taboo’ topics. The organizers welcome applications from scholars working in any field that demands sensitivity…

Het Instituut voor Politieke Wetenschap van de Universiteit Leiden nodigt onderzoekers uit een onderzoeksvoorstel in te dienen in het kader van het Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Programme.

Lodi Nauta (RUG) organizes a workshop, titled "Humanist and Scholastic Roots of Early Modern Philosophy (1400-1700)" at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. It will take place from 19 until 24 April 2022 and it is open to maximum 15 students in philosophy or intellectual history at (R)MA or PhD-level.…

Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position within the project ‘Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts’ (1.0 fte, 4 years). The PhD candidate will track changing professional and scholarly practices and attitudes towards…

Op vrijdag 6 februari is het weer Masterdag in Leiden. Ook de science masters presenteren zich deze middag aan bachelor- en hbo-studenten die een master willen kiezen.