In the media
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Launch Leiden | Islam interview series 23 February 2016
Why is Arabic poetry relevant for our understanding of the Arabic-speaking world? Arabist James Montgomery explains this in the first video interview ...
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Remco Breuker: 'North Korea is not a state. It's a company' 12 February 2016
How to deal with the Pyongyang regime? Is North Korea irrational? Prof. Remco Breuker proposes a new approach.
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Jan Michiel Otto talks about the rise of IS in Libya in RTL news and Radio 1 05 February 2016
The West is considering military intervention in Libya to stop the rise of IS. The question is: what does IS want in Libya and what can and will the W...
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NWO reports on VIDI project Erik Kwakkel 04 February 2016
In his VIDI project “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance” (2010-2015) Erik Kwakkel and his team studied...
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New editions of the Journal of Sonic Studies 26 January 2016
How can we understand the impact and importance of sound?
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic ...
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Nathanja van den Heuvel on television 08 January 2016
On Friday the 8th of January 2016, our PdD student Nathanja van den Heuvel made a public appearance on national television.
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Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70 19 November 2015
The Hague Project Peace & Justice, in cooperation with Dr. Alanna O’Malley of the Leiden University Institute for History, organized a one-day confere...
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot' 02 November 2015
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through ...
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Photo Collection Research Tutorial 15 January 2015
Maartje van den Heuvel, researcher and curator of photography at Leiden University, will be giving a tutorial next semester to master students of Film...
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Medieval Pen Trials In the News 07 October 2014
Interview for National Public Radio sparks media frenzy.
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2012 Wat is uw impact, meneer Kant? 15 May 2012
Prof. dr. Roberta D'Alessandro has written an article on the increasing difficulties that researchers encounter when they apply for a research grant i...