News
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New blog by Mirjam de Bruijn 28 April 2014
Mirjam de Bruijn and camerman Sjoerd Sijsma have been travelling through Chad and Cameroon. The Arab spring hasn't arrived there yet, but the effects ...
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Jessica Roitman accepted for prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute 18 March 2014
Jessica Roitman accepted for the prestigious Huntington-Clark Summer Institute.
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"Getting Organized" 11 March 2014
In January 2014, the research project The Promise of Organization hosted a fruitful three-day conference: "Getting Organized. The Emergence of Politic...
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Introducing: Irial Glynn 07 March 2014
In January 2014, Irial Glynn started a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship in Leiden. His project will compare the migration experiences of Ireland and I...
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Introducing: David Ballantyne 07 March 2014
In January 2014, I began working as a postdoctoral researcher in History at Leiden on the NWO project “Democratization and political terrorism: The fo...
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Introducing: Project Group The Scholarly Self 14 January 2014
In November 2013, three PhD students started in Herman Paul’s VIDI project ‘The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1...
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Introducing: Matthew Frear 10 December 2013
In September 2013 I moved to Leiden from the UK to take up the position of Assistant Professor covering politics and international relations on the BA...
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How Nelson Mandela became a Leiden Honorary Doctor 06 December 2013
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, who died on 5 december 2013, received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in 1999. Mandela’...
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Mandela symbolised reconciliation 06 December 2013
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Madiba, honorary doctor of Leiden university, was one of the iconic politicians of the late twentieth century. Mandela has ...
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Introducing: Sanne Muurling 08 November 2013
Sanne Muurling is the new PhD student in Manon van der Heijden's 'Crime and Gender' project.
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Report of the first post-doc meeting 08 November 2013
A Personal Report by Matthew Hobson on the First Meeting of Post-doctoral Researchers at the Institute for History.
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Introducing: Alanna O'Malley 08 November 2013
Since August 2013, Alanna O’Malley is the new Assistant Professor for International Studies at the Institute for History, Leiden University.
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Introducing: Damjan Donev 07 November 2013
Damjan Donev is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empi...
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Introducing: Paul Kloeg 07 November 2013
Paul Kloeg is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire...
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Introducing: Pieter Houten 07 November 2013
Pieter Houten is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman emp...