Through Kiem, Leiden University will provide 25 annual seed grants between 2024 and 2026 to develop new interdisciplinary (interfaculty) research collaborations and encounters. Kiem applications (€10,000 per project) should involve staff from at least two (and preferably more) faculties at Leiden University.…

We are pleased to invite all staff to an Information session on the Atelier teacing format on Tuesday 28 October. From 10.00–12.00 and 14.00–16.00 everyone is welcome to come along and learn all about the Atelier teaching format being introduced at our faculty. Atelier…

The Faculty of Humanities’ On-Campus Master’s Experience Day was a pleasantly busy event. The information sessions and corresponding information market went down well with interested undergraduates.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has expanded beyond its place of origin—it has become a truly global practice, shaped by diverse histories, societies, and medical landscapes. This workshop brings together 10 leading scholars and practitioners from Taiwan and Europe to explore how TCM is being reimagined…

Join us for an insightful public lecture by Eliot Higgins, founder and director of Bellingcat, as he addresses the challenges of information disorder.

Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.

Are you a higher educated professional (computer scientist, lawyer, policy maker, etc.) with several years of professional experience in and affinity with issues related to cyber security? Do you want to develop your expertise and do you believe in an integral and multidisciplinary approach to…

Gjovalin Macaj is an Assistant Professor in United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, where he also serves as the main contact point for the Institute’s initiatives related to the United Nations.

Lucien van Beek is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research focuses on Comparative Indo-European linguistics (morphology, semantics, lexicography, etymology) and philology, especially regarding the oldest sources of Greek. He conducted a VENI project 'Unraveling…

Robert Ross is Professor Emeritus in African Studies at the Leiden University Institute for History (chair from 2004 to 2014).

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…

Annemarie Samuels is Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Stijn Bussels is Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and Professor of Art history, especially before 1800.

Kyra Verboon studies parent-child interaction in children and adolescents who have experienced a traumatic event. In collaboration with GGZ Delfland and others, she studies how specific parental behaviour is related to adolescents' symptoms during and after intensive trauma-focused therapy

Dario Fazzi is Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History at Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

Mitra Baratchi leads the Spatio-temporal data Analysis and Reasoning (STAR) research group and is a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS). Her research interest lies in spatio-temporal, time-series, and mobility data modelling.

Anne Heyer is an Assistant Professor in modern history with a research interest in the ideas and practices of political participation in different European countries (1800-today). She works on political parties, populism, social movements and democracy in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain).…

Nadira Saab is professor Educational Sciences at the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON) and fellow of the Leiden Teachers' Academy.

Maryla Klajn is a PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute.

Lettie Dorst is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She teaches a range of different courses in the Minor Translation and the MA Translation, including courses on Translation Studies, Translation Technology, Multimodal Translation and Subtitling. Her research focuses…

In the most general sense Judith Pollmann’s work concerns the question how people and societies in the past negotiated change. This has resulted in work on early modern identity formation, the history of the early modern Netherlands and the Dutch Revolt; the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe…

Bleda Düring is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Jaap van den Herik (1947) is professor of Computer Science and Law at the Faculty of Science (since 2014) and at the Faculty of Law (since 1988). His main task is to be Chair of the Board of Directors of the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS).