My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…

In this workshop we will dive into these reasons and the pros and cons of sharing fieldwork data, and how to share them. Through case studies from various disciplines within the social sciences and humanities and input from trainers and participants we aim to establish best practices.

This October, Visual Ethnography graduates will show their films at the LUVE festival! The festival is hosted in Rotterdam this year in the vibrant Studio de Bakkerij. The 18 short ethnographic films made by students dive into heritage, the more-than-human, foodways, migration and much mor…

As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…

Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…

Since the end of the Cold War, violent conflicts have often been terminated through peace agreements that generally include power-sharing measures: institutional guarantees that groups previously in conflict will have decision-making power and access to public resources. Some of these agreements have…

Friday evening 26 September is all about languages! Languages open worlds. They connect people, cultures and ideas. During the European Day of Languages, we will be holding an Evening of Languages festival to give a platform to the diversity of languages and language expertise present in Leiden.