Events

April 2025

Wed 30 April 2025

Monika Hinkel explores the rich history and evolution of Japanese woodblock prints, tracing its journey from the vibrant prints of the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the innovative works of mokuhanga in the 20th century. She examines how woodblock printing adapted to modernization, Western influences, and changing cultural values in Meiji-era Japan.

Wed 30 April 2025

Filmavond | Italiaanse avond in het Kijkhuis

Het Kijkhuis zet samen met Studium Generale en de Universiteit Leiden de Italiaanse cinema in het zonnetje tijdens een heerlijke Italiaanse avond! Op het programma: LIFF-favoriet PERFETTI SCONOSCIUTI (2016) en Fellini’s klassieker LA DOLCE VITA (1960). Verder vieren we het goede leven met Italiaanse hapjes en Italiaanse muziek.

Wed 30 April 2025

Lecture | Reimagining Compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict

Drone technologies are changing the modern battlefield, providing new information for military decision-makers and improving available tactics. Shiri Krebs explores how drone-generated data may reproduce decision-making biases, leading to lethal errors and potential violations of the law of armed conflict.

Wed 30 April 2025

Lecture | No one is a censor: Editorial Choices in China

Svetlana Kharchenkova discusses how Chinese book editors consider the potential consequences of publishing a book. She explores the role of the public in censorship practices. This enables us to understand how complicity in censorship happens in China’s book publishing.

Wed 30 April 2025

Seminar | Buddhist Commodification and Digitalization in China

Since 1980, Buddhism in China has gone through a revival. Kai Shmushko discusses the economic and technological parts of this revival to understand how Buddhism is practiced in China today. She explores how Buddhist items are made and sold, and how modern technology is used by lay Buddhists to practice their faith.

Wed 30 April 2025

Lezing | Nationalisme: een wereldgeschiedenis

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Eric Storm spreekt over zijn nieuwe boek 'Nationalisme: Een wereldgeschiedenis.' Hij gaat eerst kort in op de belangrijkste inzichten die zijn boek heeft opgeleverd. In het tweede deel van de lezing bespreekt hij de heropleving van het nationalisme sinds de late jaren zeventig. Met het neoliberalisme en de globalisering kwam toen ook de identiteitspolitiek op en zo het radicaal-rechtse populisme.

Wed 30 April 2025

Symposium | Wereldverbeteraars of zolderkamergeleerden?

In het kader van het 450-jarig bestaan van Universiteit Leiden organiseert Leidschrift een symposium met als thema: 'Wereldverbeteraars of zolderkamergeleerden? De rol van de universiteit binnen de maatschappij.' Tijdens het symposium reflecteren verschillende sprekers op de relatie tussen de universiteit en de maatschappij door de eeuwen heen.

May 2025

Thu 1 May 2025

IIAS seminar | Africans and the making of modern Mumbai

In this hybrid lecture, Meera Venkatachalam argues that Africans have played a crucial role in Mumbai from the 1750s to today. Africans came as slaves, traders, and missionaries, shaping the city’s spaces, knowledge, and trade networks. She suggests a combined African and South Asian history through the idea of “Afro-Asia."

Thu 1 May 2025

NINO & RMO boekpresentatie | Israëlische religie in de Romeinse tijd

Karel van der Toorn heeft een boek geschreven over de Israëlitische religie: "Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy." Hij bespreekt etnische, lokale en koninklijke aspecten van deze religie en plaatst deze in de context van de Romeinse tijd.

Thu 1 May 2025

KITLV Seminar | Indonesian Catholic missionaries in the Netherlands

The declining authority of the Church in Europe has weakened the vitality of Catholic orders. In response, many orders have invited foreign missionaries to rejuvenate their missions. In this hybrid talk, Fransiska Widyawati examines Indonesian missionaries in the Netherlands.

Thu 1 May 2025

ASCL Seminar | African perspectives on peace- and statebuilding

In this hybrid seminar, Tim Glawion (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute) explores how people in conflict-ridden parts of Africa, such as South Sudan and the Central African Republic, think about peace and the role of the state. He shows how their views often differ from what statistics say they need.

Fri 2 May 2025

Informal Workshop | Global rhetoric

How do people convince each other? Every day we are confronted with the rhetoric of Trump, Putin, and Meloni. Rhetoric, the art of speaking and persuading, is often considered an invention of the Greeks and Romans. The history of rhetoric is therefore mainly seen as Western. We explore theories and practices of persuasion in different cultures worldwide.

Sun 4 May 2025

Event | Afrikaanse filosofie: consensus en democratie

Afrika kent een rijke filosofische traditie. In vier bijeenkomsten lichten studenten van het Leidse Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, met ondersteuning van hun docent filosofie Pius Mosima, enkele centrale uitgangspunten en ideeën uit de Afrikaanse filosofie toe. Deze laatste bijeenkomst gaat over consensus en democratie.

Sun 4 May 2025

RMO lezing | Grafkisten van Gaoetsesjen

Daniel Soliman, conservator collectie Egypte en Nubië, vertelt over de met afbeeldingen en teksten beschilderde Egyptische grafkisten van een vrouw met de naam Gaoetsesjen. Ontdek in deze online lezing wat de versieringen betekenen, wat er in de teksten staat en hoe de kisten werden gemaakt.

Tue 6 May 2025

Lecture | Colombia’s Transitional Justice Model

The Colombian transitional justice model is one of the most complex and ambitious efforts to harmonize national peacebuilding with binding obligations under International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Criminal Law. Juana Inés Acosta Lopez examines the legal architecture of this system.

Tue 6 May 2025

IIAS Seminar | China, South America, and the Eco-Modernist Path to Sustainability

China is leading the push for Electric Vehicles as part of its "Ecological Civilisation" vision for a sustainable future. It invests heavily in mining critical minerals in South America. This eco-modernist path to sustainability often hides the inequalities created by this rush for minerals.

Wed 7 May 2025

Seminar | Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations

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Mark Kaye examines his paper on how citizens on both sides of the Brexit divide imagine the UK’s future relationship with the EU and its role in a shifting global landscape.

Wed 7 May 2025 - Fri 9 May 2025

Conference | Collaborative Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts

This three-day conference gathers researchers on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production. It focuses on literary texts, letters, and legal records and explores the agency and influence of scribes and manuscript users in shaping early modern manuscript production.

Wed 7 May 2025

Lecture | Race and Ethnicity in Dutch Academia

Dutch Academia is international and diverse. However, the experience of staff of color is at best difficult to talk about, even though the lack of representation of staff of color in top positions is apparent. Aya Ezawa examines the work life and careers of academics of color in the Netherlands.

Wed 7 May 2025

Seminar | The Workings of Talismans in Daoist Practice

David Mozina (University of Cambridge) explores how talismans, especially in Daoist practice in south China, are believed to compel deities and demons through their script. He examines the ongoing use of talismanic writing, rooted in Daoist traditions from the tenth to fourteenth centuries.

Thu 8 May 2025 - Fri 9 May 2025

Symposium | Rules for a lawless world?

This symposium explores the consequences of the China-USA rivalry on international law. It questions whether legal norms are breaking down, being violated, or replaced. It also investigates how this global power struggle impacts the vision for a law-governed world.

Thu 8 May 2025

RMO thema-avond | Macht van het volk

Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden gebruikt de oudheid als spiegel in deze thema-avond om meer te leren over de democratie van vandaag. Wetenschappers praten u bij over de stand van de democratie in de wereldpolitiek en de rol van extreem rijke bedrijven en individuen hierin.

Thu 8 May 2025

KITLV Seminar | Reading the Prabowo Subianto presidency

This hybrid talk explores Prabowo Subianto, who took office on 20 October 2024. The first six months of his presidency have offered more than just a glimpse into how he plans to use his power to pursue his vision, officially known as Asta Cita, and how that might shape the everyday lives of Indonesians. 

Thu 8 May 2025

Symposium | Gender and Emotion in Chinese Thought and Cultures

It is quite common to take the connection between gender and emotion as a given. However, panelists in this workshop revisit gender and emotion to enquire into what their connection is and can be. They discuss how to reimagine an interdisciplinary study of gender and emotion in Chinese thought and cultures.

Thu 8 May 2025

Seminar | Women in the Gulf's digital platform economy

Crystal Ennis studies how digital work platforms connect to gender and the political economy of labour. She first discusses how a new Omani women's taxi service affects job opportunities for women. Then, she talks about how this kind of gig work is changing Asia's labour and migration systems.

Fri 9 May 2025

IIAS Roundtable | Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India

A roundtable discussion on the new book by Shankar Ramaswami 'Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India.' Based on years of engagement with workers in Delhi’s industrial factories, Ramaswami shows how they support each other in difficult circumstances.

Fri 9 May 2025

Lecture | Stone Oil, Strange Rocks, and the Origins of Chinese Geoaesthetics

During the eleventh century, China developed a fascination with geology that influenced art, from landscape painting to ceramic glazes. Jeffrey Moser examines how this shift was shaped by social change, environmental challenges, and technological advances like woodblock printing.

Fri 9 May 2025

Symposium | Becoming like gods: Models of mind and self-perfection in early China

Curie Virág (University of Warwick) compares ancient Greek and early Chinese ideas of human perfection as a form of transcending ordinary life toward a divine state. While Greek thought linked this ideal to intellectual contemplation, early Chinese texts did not converge on a single understanding.

Sat 10 May 2025

Film Screening | From Coup to Classroom: Viewing South Korean film

Faculty from the BA Korean Studies discusses the film "12.12: The Day (Sŏul-ui pom)," a powerful dramatization of the military coup that took place on December 12, 1979. They explore how this pivotal moment in South Korean history continues to shape the country’s political culture and public memory.

Sun 11 May 2025

Lezing | Bloemstillevens van Floris Verster

Sinds de 17e eeuw zijn bloemstillevens een geliefd onderwerp in de schilderkunst. Ze vormen een groot contrast met de bloemstillevens van de Leidse kunstschilder Floris Verster. Hoe ontstonden deze weelderige werken en waarom waren de schilderijen van Verster zo’n breuk met deze trend?

Mon 12 May 2025

Lecture | The Tree as Weapon

Trees symbolize connection and identity but are also tools for control in Israel’s Negev/Al Naqab. Erella Grassiani examines how tree planting supports nationalist agendas, blending security policies with state-extremist collaborations to reshape land ownership and power.

Mon 12 May 2025

ASCL Workshop | African Migration: Political Framings and Tactics of Resistance

Countries all over Europe seem to increasingly converge in their strong anti-immigrant political discourses. In this hybrid workshop, we have a look at the political framings of African migration and how they relate to political, social, and economic dynamics in these countries.

Mon 12 May 2025

Lecture | Hosting Global Justice - The Netherlands and International Courts

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As the host state of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, the Netherlands holds a “special position” in terms of following the rules of international law. This Studium Generale lecture discusses what this means exactly. Location: The Hague.

Mon 12 May 2025

Online seminar | Translating with confidence

Alina Karakanta discusses how Large Language Models (LLMs) can help translators correct texts. She explores the impact of LLMs on translators' efficiency and the translation quality. She also talks about translators' trust in LLM corrections compared to human corrections.

Mon 12 May 2025

Seminar | Greek Processes of Dying

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Associate Professor Takashi Fuiji (Kyoto University) talks about her research on "Greek Processes of Dying: Transformation from the Hellenistic Period to the Early Empire." This seminar is part of the Ancient History Research Seminar series, focusing on the unification of the Mediterranean world (400BC-400AD).

Mon 12 May 2025

Lecture | Chinese and Russian self-praise on social media

Yaping Guo compares Chinese and Russian self-praise practices on social media. He explores how culture and norms of politeness impact their similarities and differences. This lecture is part of the Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

Mon 12 May 2025

Seminar | Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta

Historian Maria-Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (VU University Amsterdam) specializes in the relationship between art and science with an emphasis on nuclear technologies. In her talk she talks about 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art. This seminar is part of the Peace Histories Seminar Series, focusing on how different actors, organisations, powers, and regions perceive peace.

Tue 13 May 2025

Museum visit | A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano

BOCA invites us to visit the Museum West Den Haag, where we meet with Colombian artist Nika Sorzano about her work 'Cannibal Enfleshments.' BOCA explores new forms of communicating academic knowledge as a way to strengthen the connection between the university and society. Location: The Hague.

Tue 13 May 2025

RMO lezing | Een Exclusief Inkijkje in 'Boven het Maaiveld'

In een hybride lezing biedt Ivo van Wijk als medesamensteller een unieke en exclusieve blik achter de schermen van de tentoonstelling 'Boven het maaiveld.' Deze expositie belicht de meest indrukwekkende en spraakmakende ontdekkingen uit 25 jaar Nederlandse archeologie.

Wed 14 May 2025

Seminar | The Scholar Who Robbed the Sages

Jeffrey Moser discusses the Lü family's cemetery. This Northern Song cemetery reveals a rich funerary archive that sheds light on social status, mourning practices, and family life in premodern China. Among the most striking finds were ancient and imitation ritual objects, intentionally buried to honor the past and reflect the family's values. 

Thu 15 May 2025

Symposium | De Middeleeuwen als inspiratiebron

Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden organiseert een symposium naar aanleiding van de publicatie van het rijk geïllustreerde publieksboek 'Schatten op schrift, 50 manuscripten uit middeleeuws Europa.' Verschillende sprekers praten over hoe de middeleeuwen doorwerken in de moderne tijd. 

Thu 15 May 2025

KITLV Book presentation | Legacies of colonialism in museum collections

In this hybrid talk, Mirjam Shatanawi discusses her book on the (un)making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands. She finds that Indonesian Islamic heritage rarely receives the attention it deserves in museum collections and exhibitions.

Thu 15 May 2025

Lecture | On Blinding Future Generations

Current generations face urgent environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Catriona McKinnon explores how "intergenerational environmental blinding" may prevent future generations from fully understanding these issues. 

Fri 16 May 2025

Workshop | In contact met collecties

Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden organiseert een workshop met zeldzame en bijzondere oude boeken uit de collecties. Kasper van Ommen toont uiteenlopende en bijzondere boeken die in Leiden zijn gedrukt door de drukkers die aan Universiteit Leiden waren verbonden, onder wie Plantijn, Elsevier en Luchtmans.

Sat 17 May 2025

RMO lezing | Homeruslezing 2025 'Het drama van de tragedie'

Tijdens de Week van de Klassieken organiseert Het Nederlands Klassiek Verbond samen met uitgeverij Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep jaarlijks de hybride Homeruslezing. Tom Lanoye verzorgt de achtste editie over tragedie. Voor hem draait tragedie om dilemma’s: verscheurdheid en onoplosbare levensvragen.

Mon 19 May 2025

Lezing | Het geheugen van geur

Ben jij nieuwsgierig naar de kracht van geur in het verleden, hoe dit is veranderd en wat onze hersenen hiermee te maken hebben? Nadine Akkerman, Hanneke Hulst en Ineke Huysman nemen je mee in het fascinerende samenspel tussen geurherinneringen en de neurowetenschap van ruiken, gebaseerd op recepten uit het werk van de renaissance virtuoos Constantijn Huygens.

Tue 20 May 2025

Lecture | Global Forces, Local Contexts, and Urban Environmental History

Matthew Vitz explores urban-environmental change by examining both local urban details and global patterns shaped by capitalism and colonialism. He offers a roadmap for a global urban environmental history, emphasizing the need for a more environmentally just future.

Tue 20 May 2025

RMO lecture | A Plundered Imperial Shrine

Elizabeth Marlowe (Colgate University) discusses a corpus of dozens of life-size bronze statues of Roman emperors and empresses that were looted in Turkey in the 1960s. These statues ended up in collections across the U.S. She discusses the site, the looting, and the resistance by some museums to return these statues.

Tue 20 May 2025

Lecture | We died the day we left the forests

In this online lecture, Saudah Namyalo (Makerere University) explores the cultural threats faced by the Basua of Bundibugyo, following their forced displacement from their traditional home in the Ugandan forest. She also discusses attempts to document the collective memories of their lost heritage.

Wed 21 May 2025

Seminar | Obsolete Media in Post-socialist China

Qin Dao presents his work, which centers on rare and outmoded film formats from the 1960s to 1990s. Through his living-room projects "On Kino" and "On Analogue," he explores forgotten media. His practice revives marginalized memories by creatively collecting, archiving, exhibiting, and publishing these materials.

Wed 21 May 2025

ASCL Seminar | Africa in the Polycrisis, Vulnerability and Resilience

Wim Naudé discusses his contribution to the 2024 Economic Development in Africa Report. He examines optimal strategies for African countries and the private sector to reduce trade risks associated with uncertainties created by the global polycrisis.

Thu 22 May 2025

RMO lezing | De Kelten

Peter Schrijver (Universiteit Utrecht) spreekt over Kelten, hun talen en de vroege culturen van het Middellandse Zeegebied: Keltiberiërs, Lepontiërs, Galaten en hun buren. Ze ontwikkelden een karakteristieke cultuur, waarin overgeërfde, oer-Keltische elementen werden verbonden met lokale innovaties en invloeden van hun buren.

Thu 22 May 2025

Lezing | Schrijversmythen

In de twintigste eeuw beïnvloedden schrijvers de publieke opinie en werden ze publieke figuren met grote maatschappelijke impact. Sander Bax bespreekt in deze hybride lezing hoe schrijvers hun identiteit vormgeven en de impact van schrijversmythen vandaag de dag.

Thu 22 May 2025

Lecture | From Virtue to Money: The Concept of Trust in Stoic Ethics

Aistė Čelkytė explores how Epictetus compares virtue to money. She notes that Roman money changed from being based on valuable materials to money that only has value because people trust it. This shift shows the importance of trust in the Stoics' understanding of knowledge and social life.

Fri 23 May 2025

RMO lezing | 12 Provinciën-lezing, Provincie Utrecht

2025 is het 'Jaar van de Nederlandse archeologie.' Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden zet archeologie in het zonnetje. Het organiseert 12 lezingen over archeologie in 12 provinciën. Deze hybride lezing focust op de provincie Utrecht en de vondsten in de stad Utrecht, Nieuwegein, polder Rijnenburg en Austerlitz.

Fri 23 May 2025

WML Evenement | Imagine Peace: Leven zonder islamofobie

Islamofobie wordt vaak gereduceerd tot individuele vooroordelen of incidenten, maar het is diep verankerd in institutionele structuren. Dit evenement markeert de officiële lancering van het rapport van Stichting Meld Islamofobie en biedt een open gesprek en ruimte voor reflectie en actie.

Fri 23 May 2025

Lezing | De jeugd heeft de toekomst

Judi Mesman en Ton Liefaard stellen dat de toekomst bij uitstek een thema is dat intergenerationeel bekeken moet worden. Ze praten met jongeren en jongvolwassenen over wat zij belangrijk vinden voor een rechtvaardige toekomst. Locatie: Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Sat 24 May 2025

Lezing | Homo ludens: spelen met normen voor lichaam en geest

Joseph Jordan en Paul van Trigt (Universiteit Leiden) bespreken Johan Huizinga's homo ludens, de spelende mens. Ze praten over hoe mensen wier lichamen en geesten niet voldoen aan wat als normaal en beschaafd wordt gezien, aankijken tegen de spelende mens. Locatie: Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Sun 25 May 2025

Leidse Wereldwandeling | Sporen van de Slavernij

Eeuwenlang was Nederland betrokken bij slavenhandel en slavernij, een geschiedenis van uitbuiting en racisme. Aan de hand van deze wandeling door de straten van de historische binnenstad van Leiden, leer je meer over deze geschiedenis. De wandeling is samengesteld door Mapping Slavery in Leiden i.s.m. het KITLV, de Universiteit Leiden en LeidenGlobal.

Mon 26 May 2025

Lecture | The Non-Religious Zaydi Literary Canon

Valentina Sagaria Rossi (University of Rome Tor Vergata) explores non-religious Zaydi writings by studying old Yemeni manuscripts. The Zaydis, a Shiʿite group that founded a state in Yemen in the 10th century, were central to the region’s politics. Her talk is part of the Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series.

June 2025

Sun 1 June 2025

WML Filmvertoning | Leiden Shorts Film Festival - Redrawing the Lines

Het filmprogramma 'We need to talk about... Redrawing the Lines. Mapping Worlds, Resisting Erasure' onderzoekt cartografie als een methode van controle en voor verzet. Drie films navigeren door landschappen die getekend zijn door verplaatsing, technologische dominantie en politiek geweld. 

Sun 1 June 2025

Lezing | De Flora Batava

Tussen 1800 en 1934 verscheen het groots opgezette project Flora Batava, het eerste overzicht van wilde planten in Nederland. In 2023 verzorgde Norbert Peeters samen met Esther van Gelder een nieuwe uitgave van dit lijvige werk. Peeters gaat in op het belang van dit boek voor de waardering van lokale natuur. Esmée Winkel gaat dieper in op botanisch tekenen.

Mon 2 June 2025

Lecture | CADS Spotlight

In this double lecture, Shajeela Shawkat and James McGrail talk about their PhD research. Shajeela explores art workshops as a research tool that can reveal how art promotes self-expression and identity. James explores how Singapore’s Muslims challenge AI governance, imagining alternatives beyond state control.

Tue 3 June 2025

IIAS book talk | Romanian and Chinese cinemas

In this hybrid talk, Lucian Țion discusses his book on Romanian and Chinese cinemas, showing their shared socialist roots. By comparing films from Maoist China and Ceaușescu’s Romania, he challenges Western-centric narratives that dismiss socialist-era cinema as mere government propaganda.

Wed 4 June 2025

Seminar | The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy

Sarah Wolff discusses the enabling role of EU politics in shaping migration diplomacy. Her lecture is part of the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars, a series created to foster in-depth discussions on key migration-related issues.

Thu 5 June 2025

RMO Boekpresentatie | Het Grote Eiland

Hans Verheij en Hugo Koning bespreken hun boek 'Het Grote Eiland – De geschiedenis, het land en de mensen van Kreta.' Ze schetsen een levendig beeld van Kreta aan de hand van meer dan vierhonderd literaire en historische teksten van ongeveer honderd auteurs uit de oudheid tot aan het heden.

Thu 5 June 2025

IIAS Lecture | Perception and Transformation in Tibetan Construction Rituals

Rachael M. Griffiths explores 'sa chog', a Tibetan ritual used to select and prepare land before construction, involving astrology and other practices. This ritual shapes and transforms space for human use, and reflects broader Tibetan Buddhist views on space

Fri 6 June 2025

ASCL Conference | Fifty years of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

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The CRG Governance, Entrepreneurship, and Inclusive Development Research Group holds a one-day conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific states (OACPS). The conference focuses on its evolution, operations, and activities.

Wed 11 June 2025 - Sat 14 June 2025

IIAS Conference | Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge

This conference aims to deepen discussions on the histories and connections between Africa and Asia. The conference is held in Dakar, Senegal, and highlights the city's cultural richness through a conference-festival that blends academia, society and the arts. 

Wed 11 June 2025

Symposium | Absence as artistic strategy in contemporary art

This symposium explores the theme of absence in contemporary art. From erasure and hidden narratives to negative space and invisibility, it examines how absence functions as a fundamental artistic strategy. Scholars and artists worldwide can share insights on this compelling subject.

Thu 12 June 2025

RMO boekpresentatie | Libanon – een korte geschiedenis

Jona Lendering presenteert zijn nieuwe boek over de geschiedenis van Libanon vanaf de bronstijd. Hij vertelt over Byblos, de Feniciërs, de kruistochten en de Ottomanen. Ook de moderne geschiedenis komt aan bod. Na afloop van zijn presentatie kunt u het boek kopen en laten signeren door de auteur.

Sat 14 June 2025

Symposium | Asian art and material culture

The Young Scholars’ Symposium in Asian Art 2025 takes place at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with the title "Asian art and material culture: new ways of seeing." People in the fields of art history, material culture history, archaeology, environmental art history, architecture, anthropology, contemporary art, and design are welcome. 

Tue 17 June 2025

RMO lezing | Archeologie van de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Ruurd Kok houdt een hybride lezing over onderzoek naar sporen uit de oorlogsjaren 1940-1945. Dat varieert van opgravingen in nazi-kampen tot het meekijken met vliegtuigbergingen. Hij vertelt over de uitkomsten van het onderzoek en over het verschil met archeologisch onderzoek naar oudere vindplaatsen.

Thu 19 June 2025 - Fri 20 June 2025

Conference | Grotian Law and Modernity in a New Age

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of 'De jure belli ac pacis' by Hugo Grotius in 1625, this conference explores Grotius's role in the history of international law. The central focus is on evaluating how relevant his ideas are today, and what changes may be necessary. Location: The Hague.

Fri 20 June 2025

WML Event | Imagine Peace: Justice for displaced plants

Plants also carry stories. Colonization and global trade disrupted many ecosystems. Traditional knowledge was lost. Nature became property. In this meeting, we mourn the loss of nature's balance, and listen to indigenous voices from New Zealand and South Africa. How do we take better care of the nature that remains?

Sat 21 June 2025 - Sun 22 June 2025

WML event | Matariki-weekend

Het Wereldmuseum Leiden leert je over Maoricultuur tijdens de viering van 15 jaar samenwerking met Toi Maori en The Dutch Waka Crew. Maori-gasten uit Nieuw-Zeeland en Engeland delen hun verhalen en gebruiken, en samen laten we de waka’s te water. 

Sun 22 June 2025

Leidse Wereldwandeling | Sporen van de Slavernij

Eeuwenlang was Nederland betrokken bij slavenhandel en slavernij, een geschiedenis van uitbuiting en racisme. Aan de hand van deze wandeling door de straten van de historische binnenstad van Leiden, leer je meer over deze geschiedenis. De wandeling is samengesteld door Mapping Slavery in Leiden i.s.m. het KITLV, de Universiteit Leiden en LeidenGlobal.

Thu 26 June 2025 - Fri 27 June 2025

Conference | Ælfric’s Afterlives: The Most Prolific Author of Old English

Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955 – c. 1010) wrote Old English manuscripts on Grammar, Colloquy, Catholic Homilies, saint’s lives, and the Bible. His manuscripts have been extensively studied over the last thousand years. This conference engages with this prominent author’s afterlives.

August 2025

Mon 25 August 2025 - Wed 27 August 2025

Conference | Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics

This conference explores all kinds of aspects of African languages and linguistics. It also holds a special workshop on ‘Tone and intonation in African languages.’ The format of the conference is hybrid.

September 2025

Mon 15 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

RMO lezingen | Week van het oude schrift

In de oudheid waren in het Middellandse Zeegebied en het oude Nabije Oosten diverse schriftsystemen in gebruik. In het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden staat de rijke schrifttraditie uit deze regio’s centraal. Experts geven zes lezingen over schriften en de talen waarin ze werden gebruikt.

Fri 19 September 2025

WML Evenement | Imagine Peace: Vrede, kunst en antisemitisme

Deze middag gaat over pijn die niet altijd zichtbaar is. Antisemitisme is een sluipend onrecht, met diepe sporen. Tegelijk is er ook kracht: in verhalen, in muziek, in kunst. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst delen kunstenaars en ervaringsdeskundigen hun perspectieven. We staan stil bij uitsluiting en onveiligheid, maar ook bij verbinding. 

October 2025

Thu 2 October 2025

ASCL seminar | On Africa and colonial discourse

Muyiwa Falaiye (University of Lagos) finds that colonialism is often perceived either as isolated episodes in Africa’s past or as a transformative force that has reshaped its societies, ways of thinking, and worldviews. In this hybrid seminar, he examines these narratives within the broader debate on decolonization.

November 2025

Fri 7 November 2025

WML Event | Imagine Peace: Justice beyond borders and time

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In many indigenous cultures, time and borders exist differently than we are used to. They move with nature, with the community, with the seasons. In this session, we learn from Spanish and Latin American indigenous wisdom. How do they approach time and space? How does this contribute to a balanced way of living with nature?