Throughout the year, master's student Berber Kommerij is busy analysing medieval and early modern books and paintings. Every summer, however, she leav...

Future proofing student skills with a new cohort of Digital Humanities & AI students.

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop organized as part of the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers', taking place on 26–...

Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey throu...

It was pouring with rain during the Opening of the Faculty Year, but in the Oranjerie, Dean Henk te Velde had a positive message for those present: th...

Assistant Professor Mike Schmidli has won the 2025 Faculty Teaching Prize. The Education Committee praised his commitment not only to teaching student...

On 15 May 2025, a roundtable '80 Years of Peace in Europe?' was convened with students and staff at Leiden University to reflect on the anniversary of...

In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she ...

Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by speci...

Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and lang...

Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers t...

On Friday 29 August 2025, 370 students received their Bachelor's degree in International Studies. The diplomas were awarded in the historic setting o...

Nova Verkerk has represented the interests of students as assessor for the past two years. Now her term has come to an end, and on 1 September she wil...

Assistant professor Carmen Van den Bergh has been nominated for the Leiden University Teaching Prize. ‘I combine literature education with social rele...

Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University...