Update : March 2020 Directors: Dr. Lara Weiss and Dr. Christian Greco Deputy directors: Dr. Daniel Soliman and Dr. Paolo Del Vesco

What was the practice of keeping the Necropolis Journal?

The main case study of the project is the cultural geography of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and its development.

Mission Director: Dr. Carina van den Hoven

This week the good news broke as the Egyptian authorities have given their permission to continue the excavations in Saqqara in 2019!

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

This research project focuses on the relation between identity marks and writing.

This week Dr. Lara Weiss (of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden), who together with Dr Christian Greco (of the Museo Egizio in Turin) heads the project "The Walking Dead: The Making of a Cultural Geography in Saqqara", was visited by the NVIC team. During the visit she introduced them to the…

In the past, the Dutch community living in Cairo made an annual visit to the then Leiden-only mission to Saqqara. They would come out and have a nice picnic together with the excavation team and visit the monumental New Kingdom tombs. The current Leiden-Turin expedition would very much like to revive…

How do our Leiden alumni cope with the restrictive measures in their country, the possible finding of a vaccine, medication to combat corona or how do they cope with working from home, with or without children? Read the story of Leiden alumni Nicolas Tubbs (2005, MSc Biodiversity & Sustainability)…

This monograph, written by dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis and published by Cambridge University Press, discusses the postwar development of the welfare state.

In 2015 the division ‘Migration and Crime’ of the Dutch Society for Criminology has been established to bring together academic researchers that are active in this diverse field with each other and relevant persons and organisations. On March 10 it will organise its first seminar on labour exploitation,…

The project ‘Founding an Inclusive Space’ investigates the histories of various LGBT+ archives in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The goal of this project is to keep a close watch on the developing nature of homicide in the Dutch Caribbean region.

Do you live in Egypt and have you always wondered about all the pharaonic heritage surrounding you? This spring NVIC organizes a beginner’s level, introductory course in Egyptology. In 6 richly illustrated lessons, the history of ancient Egypt will be brought to life, both chronologically as well as…

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries artists were fascinated by how the animal kingdom was classified. They were in some instances ahead of natural historians.

Willemijn Aerdts, lecturer at ISGA, discussed the Russian interference in the domestic affairs of Western countries on Dutch radio BNR.

TRI Leiden Turnaround, Rescue & Insolvency

Irene Morfini defended her thesis on 21 February 2019

Can we bring novel treatment options to the clinic for UM patients with liver metastases?

A selection of news from Leiden University.

Here you can find regular updates about our library.

Dirk Huyge (Director) & Wouter Claes (Vice-Director)

In the globalised world of today, traditional definitions of national Self and national Other no longer hold. The unmistakable transformation of German and Dutch societies demands a thorough rethinking of national boundaries on several levels.

On Monday, 1 February a beautifully designed and accessible book appeared about two centuries of student financing and apprenticeship in the Netherlands, entitled Kansen in het Koninkrijk (‘Opportunities in the Kingdom’). The book was presented to Job Cohen, a Leiden University professor and chairman…

Egyptologist Lara Weiss is curator at The National Museum of Antiquities and has been leading the VIDI research project 'Walking Dead' since 2017. The exhibition 'Saqqara: Living in a necropolis', which will be on display at the museum starting March 10 next year, is part of the project.

Leiden University likes to keep in touch with her alumni. To do so, we sent out an English newsletter to our international alumni each month. On top of that, our Dutch alumni receive the Alumni magazine Leidraad three times a year.

The project concerns the nature, the usages and functions of pictographic systems in relation to writing in societies with (restricted) literacy.

Pathogenic bacteria are increasingly resistant to today’s antibiotics. Professor Gilles van Wezel seeks new forms of antibiotics in good bacteria that live in the soil.

Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of research. One of them is LIAS researcher Lara Weiss.

On Thursday the 15th of March, an exhibition displaying funerary masterpieces of Deir el-bersha was opened at the Egyptian museum on the occasion of 120 years of archaeological research at the site. The exhibit runs until 15 April.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

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The latest news on diversity and inclusion and an overview of coming D&I-activities within Leiden University.

Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

The Executive Board intends to present the University’s new strategic plan in February 2022, during our Dies Natalis. We want to involve as many people from the University organisation as possible in formulating the plan.

What's New is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

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About nine million people worldwide contract tuberculosis each year. Research into new treatment for this disease has received fresh stimulus with more efficient techniques and a new understanding of how the tuberculosis bacteria works.

The master’s programme in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University provides you with strong editorial and academic skills as well as a journalistic mindset. It is an ideal programme to kickstart your career in journalism.

On 27 September 2017 a new book by Prof. Luuk van Middelaar appeared, entitled The new politics of Europe. The book is at the same time a front line account of Europe’s recent crisis years – from monetary turmoil to tensions around Ukraine, from refugee crisis to Brexit – and an analysis of the Union’s…

The new sports centre will be a sustainable and circular building. It will be used as an examination location as well. Construction starts in 2021, and the completion of the project is expected in September 2022.