How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.

Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.

Rafał Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History.

Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Ties Dams is a political theorist, essayist and researcher at the Europa Institute (Leiden Law School). His dissertation is provisionally titled Europe and the power of narrative. It explores the role of narrative in the constitution of the EU in great power politics, as compared to the USA and PRC.…

Vincent K.L. Chang is a university lecturer in history and international relations and a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre. He focuses on historical experiences and contemporary approaches to nation building, conflict, diplomacy and law in the East Asian and Indo-Pacific contexts. His main areas…

HSYRF is back! The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), as sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) as part of its Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program, is proud to announce a brand new edition of the Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum (HSYRF).…