1837 search results for “ancient italy” in the Public website
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'
The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre in 2019. A woman with a deep awareness of historical places, she sees it as more of a series of coincidences, but the…
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day
On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put the spotlight on five female researchers, who talk about their experiences working in science.
- Volume 13 (2018)
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Granada ENIS Spring School 2019
Conference
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Innovation and Tradition: The Odd Couple
Debate
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Narratives and figures in transition
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
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Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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This Week's Discoveries | 16 april 2019
Lecture
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What Cards and Coins Reveal: Divinatory Techniques in the Netherlands
Conference
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Workshop Existential Ethics
Debate
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Public Lecture and Debate
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Forum Antiquum: Carole Newlands
Lecture
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7th Coffee Break Conference: Comparisons Across Time and Space
Conference
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
- China Seminar
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Workshop Teleology and History
Lecture
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Valedictory symposium in honor of Thijs van Kolfschoten
Conference, Symposium
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Patching Poetry’s Cloak: the Poet’s Historical Sense in Modern Arabic and Dutch Poetry
Poetry Recital | Al-Babtain Poetry Series
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Centre for Digital Heritage meeting 2017
Annual meeting
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From Stone Age to Space Age
Conference
- Open Day 2018
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The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age:
International conference
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The Timurid Period: Cultural Production, Exchange and Legacies
Conference
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Many Facets of Computation: An Insight in Current Trends
Conference
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Older Publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Industrial Ecology (1982-2015)
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
- The Timurid Period: Cultural Production, Exchange and Legacies
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling good on the inside
Well-being
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LCCP Symposium Memory for the Future: Thinking with Bernard Stiegler
Conference, Symposium
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Friends and family day at the Faculty of Humanities
Festival