This research focuses on figurative Byzantine mosaic-floors that have been excavated in the geographical area of the ancient provinces of Palestina and Arabia (current Israel, PA and Jordan) dating to the Late 5th, 6th and early 7th centuries C.E.

A marvelous mosaic synagogue floor has been discovered at the Israeli excavation site of Horvat Kur. The timeworn stones of the mosaic clearly form the name ‘El’azar’. Leiden University researcher Jürgen Zangenberg and a group of Leiden students played a role in the excavation. ‘El’azar was likely an…

What are 'defects' and mechanical properties of mosaics of different shapes of tiles?

Taught from primary school to the university level – where new courses on the globalization of the Arabic writing system have cropped up (Abdallah 2014) – the Arabic script, with all its orthographic peculiarities and multiple facets, continues to shape languages other than Arabic, their communities…

Four of Leiden's young, talented ethnic minority graduates are to receive an award as part of the Mosiac programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The award will allow these budding researchers to fund a four-year research period leading to a doctorate.

The ‘New Way of Working’ has become a reality at Leiden Law School with light, transparent and flexible workspaces, Rector Carel Stolker said at the grand opening of the revamped third floor of the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw.

Researchers of the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs work on very different research topics. However, there's a clear common ground in all of their work. You will find out more in our new booklet.

How soil microbial composition impacts structure and composition of the aboveground plant and animal communities?

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts of their missions. These profoundly social museums adopt participatory practices and embark on community engagement…

Exhibition

The IBL-office welcomes you and will be able to answer all your questions regarding general information, administrative issues, or redirections towards IBL subdivisions and people.

Paisaje, cerámicas e interacciones

Associate professor at the Natural Products Laboratory, Institute of Biology, Leiden University - the Netherlands

Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019

The Housing Office offers accommodation for international students in Leiden and The Hague via DUWO student housing corporation.

Innovating objects in a Eurasian center of the Late Hellenistic period.

Els Bogaerts defended her theses on 20 December 2017.

Jasmina Mačkić, Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law at the Europa Institute, has published her book, Proving Discriminatory Violence at the European Court of Human Rights. This work is based on her doctoral dissertation, which she defended in May 2017 and which was funded by the Netherlands Organisation…

Find your home away from home at LUC! The LUC community consists of 600 students of whom 400 - those in their first and second years - live in the college building. Approximately 45 different nationalities are represented amongst students. By interacting with your peers, learning continues outside…

For questions regarding education, you can go to the Student Services Center (SSC, ground floor). For other questions, you can go to the unit’s secretariat.

The Institute of Education and Child Studies is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.

The sustainable demolition of the Gorlaeus high-rise of the Faculty of Science is now complete. This demolition is part of the redevelopment of the faculty. A part of the steel construction will form the basis of a new green bike park.

LUC has unique support systems for academic support but also personal support to guide you through your time at LUC.

A 24 person classroom on the ground floor of PJ Vethgebouw. Rolling, flexible furniture and 5+ writable surfaces supports small groupwork. Furniture is interlocking, supporting multiple arrangments. Features a smartboard TV monitor. Bookable through ZRS.

A mere day after setting foot ashore in the Bahamas on October 13th 1492, Christopher Columbus notes the broad foreheads of the inhabitants of the Americas. These permanently altered cranial shapes are deliberately created through the application of pressure to the head of the infant in the first years…

The following students have been part of the LAPP.

Secretariat: room 2B07 (2nd floor, wing B)

The Mathematical Institute occupies the second floor of the Snellius building. Follow the link to the building for travel instructions.

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Arts and Culture

The sustainable demolition of the Gorlaeus high-rise of the Faculty of Science is now complete. This demolition is part of the redevelopment of the faculty. A part of the steel construction will form the basis of a new green bike park.

A dance form that is open to very diverse forms of movement. Characteristics of modern dance are working from the center of the body, breathing technique, contact with the floor and frequent use of turning and swinging movements.

On the second floor of the Lipsius building is room 2.17, an active classroom designed with a capacity of 24 for active, group-based classwork. From 2019, the room will be part of the ZRS system and can be booked by the Humanities faculty and Humanities Service Desk.

Our University Shop has a range of university-themed souvenirs and gadgets.

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