Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism ...

Diplomatica addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigat...

An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...

On the 13th of December 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo came to Leiden to discuss the long history of the demand for reparations for slavery. In the basement of...

On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-20...

Monika Baár is among the 17 scientists who have been invited to participate in the 6th edition of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Sche...

Max Bader has been awarded a € 300,000 grant by the WOTRO Science for Global Development of NWO for a project about the role of civil society in fight...

A group of confidants including a former student of Meijers managed to avert his deportation to a death camp. In her lecture on 27 November, Clevering...

As always, 5 students take part in the Departmental Teaching Committee History. The five of us want to represent the history students to the best of o...

Brazil is one of the world's largest emerging economies, but more is needed if it is to use this economic power for all parts of Brazilian society. Th...

Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...

Professor of Latin American Studies Raymond Buve was a pioneer in forging relations between Leiden and Mexico. Although he has since retired, he is st...

One of the baffling aspects of international power politics is the unexpectedly major influence exercised by particular small states. Professor of Int...

Looking for a job after a financial crisis is not easy, but Ward Hoskens (28) managed to take his fate into his own hands. During an internship, he fo...

A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country...