Graduate School of Humanities
Welcome to the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities.
The Leiden University Graduate School of Humanities offers advanced degrees spanning the humanities, ranging from linguistics to literature, cultures, arts, history, philosophy and societies worldwide.
In Leiden, doctoral education in the Humanities emphasizes original and independent scholarship, with a high level of engagement between PhD candidates and other Faculty staff members. The six institutes within the Graduate School foster a community of scholars and degree programmes, with demonstrated success in educating PhD candidates for careers in academia, government, and other sectors.
This website offers a wide range of information for PhD candidates. If you have any further questions, please contact the Graduate School Office.
Kind regards,
Professor Marian Klamer
Director Graduate School of Humanities, Leiden University
News
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Elizabeth I did not just have the heart and stomach of a man – in her letters, she commanded his bile, too
Upcoming PhD defences
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Emotional privacy: a philosophical investigation of emotion recognition technology -
A comparative study of cosmology and its dynamics in Zhang Zai and Max Scheler -
Categorial hylomorphism: an inquiry into the significance of categories for the doctrine of hylomorphism through a confrontation of the ideas of Aristotle and Kant