Alwin Kloekhorst is professor of Anatolian Linguistics within the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics section at LUCL. His research focuses of the Indo-European language of Ancient Anatolia (Hittite, Luwian, Lydian, Lycian, Carian, etc.) and the genealogical position of this Anatolian branch within…

Liselotta Jahnke, Jason Irwin, Rachel Cruickshank and Paula Kovač are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). This committee advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board of CADS about educational matters, such as determining the Course and Examination Regulations and evaluating…

This event is held in Dutch. For more information and registration, please see the Dutch webpage. The Flemish-Dutch Society for Early Modern History (VNVNG) is a collaboration between historians of the early modern period from Flanders and the Netherlands. The goal of the association is to create a…

Masoud Kiani is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

All staff members of the Institute for History are cordially invited to the Institute Council Meeting.

Genocide. The Nazi German-engineered extermination campaign against the Jews during the Second World War is understandably synonymous with the term, but right up to the present day, modern history has sadly witnessed multiple calamities deserving of the name. What lessons of history are relevant…

Lotte van Hasselt is editorial secretary for 'Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis'.

Fadly Rahman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History. His research examines the role of local networks within the global botanical research network of Plantentuin Buitenzorg during the colonial and early postcolonial periods.

Jocelyn López Caihuán is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Hannelore Braeken is a PhD candidate at the Economic and Social History section of Leiden University. She is researching loneliness with individuals with mild intellectual disabilities. Hannelore studied history at KU Leuven and the Universidad de Cádiz, and obtained her master's degree in 2024 with…

Edurne De Wilde Is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Group for the best scholarly publication in the field of Italy Studies in Dutch or Flemish academia.

Rosa Kösters is a PhD candidate at the Institute of History.

Hannah Busch is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Anna-Luna Post is an NWO-Veni Research Fellow at the Institute for History. She is fascinated by how science and society are entwined, in the past and the present.

Caspar Dullemond is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.