The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resista…

Medical Biochemistry is a section of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. The section is headed by Prof. Dr. Hans Aerts.

Xinrong Ma defended her thesis on 13 February 2018

Can animal venoms yield novel antimicrobial peptides?

Un)timely Crises explores how ‘crisis’—as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience—structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope’ to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can trigger…

Evolution & Biodiversity is one of the four research themes of the Institute of Biology Leiden.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Memelink

Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, , Co-Promotor: Young Hae Choi

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

What are the mysteries behind soft condensed matter?

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. D.R. Stanski

This master’s programme focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of armed conflict between states and within states. In addition, we explore whether and how local, national and international actors and institutions can forge cooperation, prevent political and armed conflict from emerging,…

On 26 November 1940 Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa (1894-1980) gave his now famous protest speech.

Leiden University will be taking part in the 3 October parade. Are you coming to watch?

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common type of breast cancer.

A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Promotor: J. Aarts

Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.

'In Perspective' is the quarterly publication of the Faculty of Humanities in which we bundle some of our most high-profile stories. In Perspective is printed in limited quantities (currently only available in Dutch), spread amongst relations and partners and offered on coffeetables within our buildings.…

Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: D.C. Codée

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, A.H. Meijer Co-promotor: R. Marin-Juez

While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work.

This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.

Can the venom of snakes, scorpions and other animals be sources of new antibiotics?

Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm

Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency.

How do mycobacteria subvert the defenses of host immune cells?

Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.

n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.

The transition from fossil fuels and the practical changes that this entails make many demands on citizens. Emma ter Mors, a psychologist and lecturer at Leiden University, is researching the factors that contribute to public perception and acceptance of new energy technologies.

The one-year master in South Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas on which you will focus.

The one-year master in Southeast Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas on which you will focus.

Plant Sciences' contribution to the Development & Disease research theme is to unravel the processes that allow plants to adapt to changing abiotic and biotic environmental conditions or stresses, with the aim to contribute to the sustainable production of food, flowers and bio-based products using…

Unraveling the immune-suppressive actions of drugs like prednisone.

One of LUCIR’s key objectives is to bring together scholars and students of International Relations. To this end, LUCIR regularly organises events such as conferences, roundtables, lectures and book launches.

Promotie

Workshop

Promotor: C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Co-promotor: Sandra de Weert

The course Popular Music: Selling Rebellion offers a unique opportunity to explore the popular music world from the point of view of its relation to both politics and the industry.

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-promotor: B.I. Florea

Effective host defence against tuberculosis bacteria depends on a properly balanced level of inflammation. The Inflammafish project uses zebrafish larvae to study how autophagy controls this inflammation and vice versa.

In this book Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later.

The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the full rigours of European colonisation. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their land and stock, and forced to work as labourers for farmers of European descent.