News
-
Prof. Koen Ottenheyn delivers Austrian Fund lunch talk on Roman remnants in modern central Europe11 December 2025On Tuesday, December 9 2025, Prof. Koen Ottenheyn delivered the last Austria Centre lunch talk of 2025. Prof. Ottenheyn serves as a professor of archi...
-
Podcasts for the holidaysImpact 11 December 2025Long evenings and closed university buildings make a perfect combination for listening to podcasts. Over the past six months, staff, students and alum...
-
LUF grant for Urban Studies aims to make The Hague safer and greenerInterdisciplinary collaboration 11 December 2025Starting this semester, Urban Studies students will be able to work on the urban development of the municipality of The Hague. A LUF incentive grant w...
-
Annual Review 2025impact 10 December 2025In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the impor...
-
Peter Webb Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia09 December 2025Dr Peter Webb (LIAS) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project Geo-Poetic Analysis of Pre-Islamic Arabia (GeoPo).
-
Leiden historian and Arabist awarded ERC Consolidator GrantsEuropean Research Council 09 December 2025Historian Paul van Trigt and Arabist Peter Webb have been awarded Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two ...
-
Chris Handy excels in hacking competition: ‘Everything we find helps us to secure research data better’08 December 2025During the HALON hacking competition, 28 teams had one goal: to find as many vulnerabilities as possible in the systems of Dutch higher education inst...
-
Contribute to the fifth edition of the national Historians’ Days in LeidenAnniversary edition 03 December 2025The History Days are coming to Leiden for their anniversary edition! The History Days in Leiden on 27, 28 and 29 August 2026 bring together everyone w...
-
Municipality of Leiden apologises for role in slavery and announces further researchApology 02 December 2025On 2 December, the Municipality of Leiden will apologise for the role previous administrations played in colonialism and slavery. Mayor Peter Heijkoop...
-
Designing and building a sound sculpture with 3D printed parts01 December 2025In the Digital Humanities Lab, students and staff can make use of various technical facilities. PhD student Caeso tells us more about his experiences ...
-
Dr. Viktória Muka (Andrassy Univ., Budapest) visits Leiden to talk about German minority culture in Central Europe01 December 2025On October 15, 2025, Dr. Viktória Muka who recently finished her doctorate in History at the Andrassy University in Budapest presented some of her gra...
-
MA students visit the Anne Frank House for a unique visit with a Leiden History MA alumna01 December 2025On Tuesday November 25, 2025, Sarah Cramsey travelled with students from her masters seminar on 'New Approached to the Holocaust in Central and Easter...
-
Prof. dr. Cramsey and Ms. Boróka Balogh participated in “Woman & Science” Event at the Residence of the Austrian Ambassador to The Netherlands27 November 2025On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Ambassador Bert Theuerman (Austrian Ambassador to The Netherlands) hosted a Coffeehouse Discussion exploring the positi...
-
The Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden presents a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague27 November 2025On Sunday, November 9 2025, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey presented a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague.
-
Fenna IJtsma delved into four centuries of Leiden greenery: 'Leiden people have always sought out greenery'Inspiration from history for climate-proof city 27 November 2025Over the past year, historian Fenna IJtsma delved into 'four centuries of historical greenery'. As part of the Heritage Deal, with input from biologis...