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April 2026
Thu 2 April 2026
KITLV hybrid book talk | Taxation and governance in colonial Indonesia
Maarten Manse presents his new book, in which he discusses local improvisation, indigenous customs, and everyday negotiations as a central element of taxation methods in colonial Indonesia.
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Thu 2 April 2026
IIAS lecture | Xi, Zhang and Asia
Dr Allard Wagemaker (PhD Leiden University; ex-brigadier-general Dutch Marine Corps) discusses Xi's recent elimination of his top leadership and the consequencer for a military option in Asia.
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Thu 2 April 2026
Panel talk | Iran between war and tyranny: What comes next?
Scholars and experts explore the geopolitical dynamics of the conflict in Iran, state repression, protest movements and civil society, and the dilemmas facing those who advocate peace, democracy, and social justice in Iran. In The Hague.
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Thu 2 April 2026
Lecture | When the rains came: A medieval moment in South Asia
The period ca. 850-1200 was marked by transformations in the histories of polity, culture, language, religious formation, and everyday life in South Asia. Whitney Cox (University of Chicago) proposes to take this Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) as a possibility for a new interpretation of this time and place.
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Tue 7 April 2026
KITLV documentary screening & panel discussion | Amplop demokrasi
The documentary Amplop Demokrasi (Democracy of Envelopes) follows the political cost of local elections (Pilkada) in Indonesia in 2024, from campaign spending and oligarchic influence to the broader consequences for corruption and environmental decision-making.
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Tue 7 April 2026
Actualiteitencollege | Parallelle Werelden? Informatieoorlog in de Sahel
In het actualiteitencollege in Den Haag bespreekt afrikadeskundige Mirjam de Bruijn hoe sociale media in West- en Centraal Afrika worden gebruikt als politiek wapen. Beelden en berichten creëren een soort parallelle wereld, waarin propaganda en tegenstellingen het beeld bepalen.
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Tue 7 April 2026
Lecture | Linguistic cues for Arabic authorship analysis
Hossam Ahmed explores the use of Machine Learning algorithms for extreme cases to verify the authorship of a document to a single author.
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Tue 7 April 2026
Lecture | Archaeology in the dealer’s archive
What can we learn about archaeology from dealers’ archives? Focusing on the Stendahl Art Galleries in Panama and Costa Rica during the 1950s, this talk argues for the potential of transforming the dealer archive into a vital site of historical reconstruction.
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Tue 7 April 2026
RMO hybride lezing | Het graf van Kha en Meryt
Christian Greco (directeur Museo Egizio, Turijn) brengt het verhaal van de 120-jaar oude ontdekking van het graf van Kha en Meryt tot leven, een van de best bewaarde graven uit het Nieuwe Rijk. Daarnaast laat hij de nieuwe vondsten uit dit graf uit het Museo Egizio zien.
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Wed 8 April 2026
Symposium | Japanse literatuur in vertaling
Experts en vertalers bespreken uitgebreid de uitdagingen bij het vertalen van Japanse literatuur en poëzie, de rol van gender in het vak en het werk van romancier Osamu Dazai, de meester van de ik-roman.
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Wed 8 April 2026
Seminar | Hybrid radicalisation: implications for research & preventing violent extremism
Christopher Kehlet Ebbrecht (Aarhus University, Denmark) discusses the "hybridisation" of radicalisation and reflects on the implications of the results of the study for research and violence prevention practice.
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Wed 8 April 2026
Lecture | Mapping debt, displacement, and rentier urbanism in South Korea
Yoonai Han analyses debt as a tactic of rentier urbanism in low-rise residential neighbourhoods in Seoul, South Korea. She analyzes the consequences in the form of neighbourhood change and displacement.
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Wed 8 April 2026
Panel discussion | Green colonialism
Scholars explore “Green colonialism”, which are environmental projects led by outside powers in regions that were once colonised. While these initiatives are often presented as efforts to protect nature, they can take land away from local communities, increase poverty, and weaken traditional ways of life. In The Hague.
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Wed 8 April 2026
Lecture | East Europe’s forgotten peasant revolution
Professor Jakub Beneš (University College London) reconsiders the period of world wars and focuses on East Europe.
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Thu 9 April 2026
Lecture | Humans as a legal technology
Ida Koivisto (University of Helsinki) talks about the emergence of "new humans" in European technology regulation and ethical discourses. This means that instead of natural persons, bureaucrats or civil servants, ‘humans’ are assigned legal assignments and power.
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Thu 9 April 2026
KITLV hybrid seminar | Natural resource management crisis of the 1970s
Farabi Fakih (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta) looks at how different transnational pathways of American institutions determined policy opportunities and conditions for New Order actors and the emergence of transnational brokers. He focuses on the Indonesian oil sector in the mid-1970s.
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Thu 9 April 2026
RMO quiz | Ken-Uw-Klassieken Pubquiz 2026
Test in de Tempelzaal je kennis over Griekse en Latijnse literatuur, klassieke mythologie, oude geschiedenis, antieke wijsbegeerte en archeologie.
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Thu 9 April 2026
RMO docentenmiddag | Pallas 2
Tijdens deze middag vertelt Charles Hupperts over de herziening van Pallas en de rijke ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van deze methode. Daarna volgen verschillende lezingen over onderwerpen die aansluiten bij lessen uit Pallas.
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Thu 9 April 2026
Lezing | Postmodernisme in de film: Hoe onze blik op de werkelijkheid verschuift
Dr. Peter Verstraten (universitair docent filmwetenschap) legt de voor en tegens van postmodernistische films (ca. 1960 – 2000) en hun vele stijlen en vormen naast elkaar.
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Thu 9 April 2026
IIAS online book talk | The animist imagination in East Asian cinema
Pao-chen Tang (University of Sydney) explores how humans coexist with nonhuman forces onscreen.
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Fri 10 April 2026
RMO lezingen | Wie zijn de Kelten?
Peter Schrijver (hoogleraar Keltologie) en Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof (zelfstandig archeoloog onderzoeken wie de Kelten zijn op het gebied van mythes en taal.
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Fri 10 April 2026
Online lezing | Luisteren naar Polyphemus
Justine McConnell (King’s College London) bespreekt schrijvers en kunstenaars die een nieuw, menselijker beeld hebben gecreëerd van Homerus’ cycloop Polyphemus. De nadruk ligt op het werk van romanschrijver Ralph Ellison, beeldend kunstenaar Romare Bearden en dichter Nikki Giovanni.
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Fri 10 April 2026
RMO lezingen | Xerxes' speedo
In vier korte lezingen vertelt een panel van experts over hun favoriete vorm van oudheidreceptie. Ze laten zien hoe wij verhalen uit de oudheid blijven vertellen, creatief aanpassen en soms ook volledig laten ontsporen.
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Fri 10 April 2026
Alumni event | Celebrating 40 years of the Latin American Studies program at Leiden
Enjoy keynotes, round tables, panel sessions, and a reception and walking dinner in celebration of the 40-years existence of Leiden's Latin American Studies program (LAS).
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Sat 11 April 2026
Symposium | Klank & kop
Wat doet ritme met het brein? Hoogleraar muziekwetenschap Albert Clement, cognitief neurowetenschapper Fleur Bouwer en research software engineer Berit Janssen onderzoeken dit.
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Sat 11 April 2026
RMO lezing | Homeruslezing 2026
Coen Simons (hoofdredacteur Filosofie Magazine) verklaart met behulp van Plato, Erasmus en Kant waarom de jeugd van tegenwoordig steeds moreler wordt, maar ook steeds minder deugt.
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Sun 12 April 2026
RMO workshop | Kraak de Gallische code
Archeologen hebben een plaatje gevonden dat is gemaakt van lood, waar een Gallische tekst op staat. Je leert hoe je deze oude tekst kunt ontcijferen en daar een eigen vertaling van kunt maken.
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Sun 12 April 2026
Wandeling | De Haagse spreukenroute
Prof.dr. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (emeritus hoogleraar socio-historische taalkunde van het Engels) vertelt over de verschillende spreuken, over Ingrids ontmoetingen met de sprekers van de talen, en over hoe de route tot stand kwam.
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Sun 12 April 2026
RMO lezingenmiddag | One god, many voices
Dr. Benedetto Neola (Universiteit Leiden) en dr. Clelia Attanasio (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) vertellen over de context waarin het Christendom zich heeft weten te vestigen als dominante religieuze traditie in de westerse wereld tussen de 3e en 6e eeuw na Christus. In het Engels.
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Sun 12 April 2026
RMO leesclub | Medusa in de spiegel
Letterkundige prof. dr. Jacqueline Klooster (Universiteit van Freiburg) laat lezers in een reeks persoonlijke verkenningen van mythologische figuren en hun moderne transformaties in een mythische spiegel kijken.
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Mon 13 April 2026
RMO competitie | Benelux sprekerscompetitie
Leerlingen uit Nederland en Vlaanderen gaan de woordelijke strijd met elkaar aan. Sprekers uit de onder- en bovenbouw gaan in duo’s aan de slag met creatieve spreekopdrachten over heden en verleden.
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Mon 13 April 2026
Lecture | The Bank van Lening (1746) en Bank Courant (1752) in Batavia: Did empire reate a financial revolution in Asia?
Catia Antunes talks about the Bank van Lening (created in 1746 as part of an institutional reform that tried to justify the Dutch empire in Asia) as the first modern bank in Asia that provided relatively affordable loans. She also disccuses the incorporation of the Bank Courant into the Bank van Lening.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Seminar | Art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World
Sinem Casale (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence) explores illustrated and painted books known as the Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (History of the West Indies), the first non-indigenous and non-European history of the Americas. She discusses early modern travel and colonization from the perspective of the non colonizer.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Hybrid lecture | Visuality of deaf people in contemporary times
Ana Regina Campello (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) explores the role of visuality in the education, identity formation, and social interaction of deaf people.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Artist talk | Tales of resistance: Allegory & myth
Hong Kong–born artist Kacey Wong shares his insights into the aesthetics of protest and reflect on his experience of exile in Taiwan. He discusses how visual language is shaped under authoritarian pressure, censorship, and political displacement, and how art becomes a tool to resist erasure and encourage civic courage. In The Hague.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Seminar | Water governance
Mark Squillace (University of Colorado) discusses water governance and (in)justice in the face of increasingly global challenges.
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Tue 14 April 2026
ASCL seminar | The politics of green hydrogen in the Global South: Insights from Africa and Latin America
Tomás Ariztía (Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile) and Eric Cezne (ASCL) present two perspectives on the emerging geographies, politics, and lived experiences of green hydrogen across the Global South.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Knowledge session | China’s hydrogen ambitions and clean energy competition
Gadi Rothenberg (University of Amsterdam and Tsinghua University) examines the current state of China’s clean energy and hydrogen technologies. He discusses how competitive Chinese solutions are and what these developments mean for the Netherlands.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Seminar | Effective public risk communication: Raising awareness without causing fear
Prof. Lasse Lindekilde (Aarhus University) addresses the question: How can government institutions communicate effectively to the public about the risk from terrorism, war, pandemics etc. without causing undue fear in the population? In The Hague.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Lecture | Connecting Dutch colonial sources with AI
Johan Visser introduces the research platform dutchtatlanticsources.com. DAS is a digital humanities project that brings together early modern sources on the Dutch Atlantic world.
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Tue 14 April 2026
RMO live-opname | Veelstemmige oudheid
In deze live-opname voor de podcast 'Verleden Verteld', praten conservatoren Daniel Soliman en Suzan van de Velde met host Timo Epping over de veelstemmige oudheid in het museum.
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Tue 14 April 2026 - Fri 17 April 2026
Conference | European human behaviour & evolution association
Different speakers explore the meaning of AI developments for research on behavioural sciences, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, medicine, and more.
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Tue 14 April 2026
Hybrid roundtable | Populism and nationalism: What's the difference?
Sarah de Lange, André Gerrits and Steven Denney discuss the ideal-type differences and similarities between populism and nationalism and the connection between the two in Dutch and East Asian politics.
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Wed 15 April 2026
WML bijeenkomst | Imagine peace: Silencing & humanitaire hulp Sudan
In een panel richten we ons op de menselijke impact van de oorlog in Sudan en onderzoeken we waarom de wereld zo beperkt reageert en wat hiervan de gevolgen zijn. Afsluiting met een publiek gesprek en spoken word.
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Wed 15 April 2026
RMO avondsymposium | Legendarische vrouwen in de Griekse literatuur
Ineke Sluiter (Universiteit Leiden) en Irene de Jong (Universiteit van Amsterdam) wekken de stemmen van vrouwen uit de Griekse literatuur van de Oudheid tot leven en vertellen over Penelope en Tomyris.
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Wed 15 April 2026
Lecture | National language and feminist activism in Republican China
Coraline Jortay (French Centre for Scientific Research) discusses the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education. She focuses on feminist activists' influence on debates about the unification of language in China from the late Qing into the early People's Republic of China period.
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Wed 15 April 2026
IIAS lecture | Alexandra David-Neel and the reawakening of Buddhism
The writings of Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969) shaped global perceptions of Tibetan Buddhism, often emphasising occult practices and magical phenomena. Dr Samuel Thévoz (University of Vienna) rethinks the influence of Buddhist modernism in her life, focusing on her transformative stay in Sikkim in the 1910s.
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Thu 16 April 2026
Lezing | Heen en weer tussen hoop en cynisme
Dr. Robin van den Akker (Erasmus School of Philosophy) verkent de verschuiving naar het metamodernisme (ca. 2000- nu) en hoe dit zichtbaar wordt in kunst en cultuur.
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Thu 16 April 2026
Workshop | Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Experts and younger researchers of historical pragmatics share their challenges, practices, and ideas on how to deal with the challenges of applying a pragmatic lens to historical letters.
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Thu 16 April 2026
Symposium | To rise from the ashes
The Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East discusses the continuous response, adaptation and (re)emergence of societies throughout time in ancient West Asia.
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Thu 16 April 2026
Lecture | Sacrifice and social imaginary in Hellenistic Kos
Péter Kató (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) explores sacrificial prescriptions from priests addressed to various groups within the local population, in order to maintain established social hierarchies.
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Thu 16 April 2026
Workshop | Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
Letter-writing has been a rich source for historical pragmatic analysis in the past decades. However, many pragmatic models need careful consideration when applied to historical data. Different speakers explore how pragmatic frameworks might be changed to better fit historical data.
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Thu 16 April 2026
RMO lezing | Constantinopel en water
Dr. Mariëtte Verhoeven (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) onderzoekt hoe water op verschillende manieren bepalend was voor de identiteit van Constantinopel.
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Thu 16 April 2026
IIAS lecture | Controlling Measles outbreak in Southeast Asia
Laurence Monnais (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) reflects on the current outbreak of Measles using a Southeast Asianist perspective and history as prevention.
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Thu 16 April 2026
WML performance lecture | Undesirables
Artist filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen shares from her ongoing research on the Dutch colonial plantocracy.She shows resistance to racial capitalism despite attempts to suppress it. In Amsterdam.
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Fri 17 April 2026
NINO hybrid lecture | Identity and Connectivity at the Oryx District
Oryx District was once a thriving town in the middle of Egypt. Several tombs found there show individuals who did not look like Egyptians. Dr Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek (The University of Chicago) explores who those people were and who else lived in there.
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Fri 17 April 2026
Lecture | the British government's colonial bureaucratic practices in southern Africa
In this Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series, Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield) discusses the British government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa.
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Fri 17 April 2026
Lecture | Modal strategies in Hittite
In this Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminar, Theresa Maria Roth (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) shares her early considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite.
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Fri 17 April 2026
Book talk | France, you love it but you leave it
Olivier Esteves (Lille University) presents his book 'France you love it but you leave'. The book discusses the silent and largely unacknowledged flight abroad of French Muslim. It focuses on their motivations, their experiences in France and abroad, and their sense of Frenchness, torn between gratitude and bitterness.
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Fri 17 April 2026
Lecture | Household dominium and enslavement in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire
In this Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History lecture, Timo McGregor talks about ownership and slavery in the Dutch empire of the 17th century.
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Fri 17 April 2026
RMO boekpresentatie | The Poet and the Underworld
Amaranth Feuth vertelt over de manier waarop eigentijdse literatuur bekende Griekse en Latijnse teksten in herinnering brengt en op subtiele wijze bijstuurt vanuit het hedendaagse perspectief van diversiteit.
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Sat 18 April 2026
RMO workshop | Fanfictie schrijven over de oudheid
Julia Neugarten (Radboud Universiteit) geeft een korte inleiding op fanfictie (verhalen waarin fans bestaande verhalen herschrijven), waarna bezoekers zelf fanfictie over de oudheid schrijven.
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Sat 18 April 2026
WML film screenings and panel discussions | Restitution through artistic collaboration
The project responds to the Dutch government’s 2023 announcement of its intention to return artefacts taken from Indonesia. Explore how film and collaboration can reshape narratives around restitution—embracing and what could happen when these objects return. In Amsterdam.
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Sat 18 April 2026
Concert | Swing’in spring with the Practicum Musicae Orkest!
the Practicum Musicae Orchestra leads you through the warm soundscapes of Debussy and Fauré.
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Sun 19 April 2026
WML evenement | Meer tijd voor Papoea
Een middag vol film, gesprek en smaak, waarin tijd en de hedendaagse realiteit van West-Papua centraal staan. Verschillende activiteiten focussen op verdieping, ontmoeting en nieuwe perspectieven.
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Sun 19 April 2026
Wereldwandeling | Sporen van de Slavernij in Leiden
Aan de hand van deze wandeling door de straten van de historische binnenstad van Leiden, leer je meer over de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavenhandel en slavernij, lopend langs gebouwen waar handelaren, tot slaafgemaakten, en voorvechters voor de afschaffing van slavernij woonden.
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Sun 19 April 2026
RMO evenement | Romeinen in het museum
Op de laatste dag van de Week van de Klassieken presenteren de Romeinse re-enactors van Legio Secunda Augusta demonstraties en een modeshow om de oudheid dichterbij te brengen.
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Sun 19 April 2026
NINO slotmiddag | Veelstemmige oudheid
Verschillende sprekers presenteren studies waarin verschillende identiteiten in de Levant en de relatie tussen tekst en archeologie van het derde tot en met her eerste millennium v.Chr. voorkomen.
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Mon 20 April 2026
Workshop | Materiality and historical research
PhD-candidates present short presentation on a single object, or group of objects, that can demonstrate the importance of materiality in historical research. This can include clothing, jewellery, documents, paintings, etc.
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Mon 20 April 2026
Talk | Irradiated imaginations and anti-nuclear solidarities
Fabienne Rachmadiev (University of Amsterdam) discusses the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism, and resistance. She focusses on the Northern Kazakh steppe around Semey, which the Soviet Union used for its nuclear programme between 1948 and 1991, causing long-lasting effects of pollution and radiation.
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Tue 21 April 2026
ASCL seminar | Histories of Afroglobal politics of conflict in the 19th Century
Dr. Kerem Duymus (University of Leipzig) examines the interactions between the Ottoman and Borno Empires during the second half of the nineteenth century. These interactions intersected with the global ambitions of merchants and rulers from the area and created a space of AfroGlobal political interactions.
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Wed 22 April 2026
RMO lecture | Byvanck-lecture 2026
Naoíse Mac Sweeney (University of Vienna) talks about Greek cities in Cilicia (South East Turkey). They are considered settlements founded from the 8th century BC by migrants who brought their own culture and identity with them.
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Thu 23 April 2026 - Fri 24 April 2026
Conferentie | Neerlandistiekdagen
Studenten maken kennis met lopend onderzoek en actueel onderwijs binnen de neerlandistiek via workshops en lezingen, onder andere over straattaal. Ook wordt gevraagd hoe de neerlandistiek van de toekomst eruitziet.
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Thu 23 April 2026
RMO rondleiding | Verhaal op zaal
De wetenschappers achter de tijdelijke tentoonstelling Discovering Ancient Egypt vertellen over hun onderzoek en de fascinerende verhalen achter de objecten in de tentoonstelling.
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Thu 23 April 2026
Lezing | Van posthuman-isme naar post-humanisme
Drs. Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis) stelt dat het posthumanisme (ca. 1980 – nu) aantoont dat mensen altijd al onderdeel zijn geweest van grotere netwerken.
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Thu 23 April 2026
Online book talk | Repression and resistance on the Russian internet
Françoise Daucé and Francesca Musiani talk about their new book 'Digital Authoritarianism in the Making: Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet'. In it, they discuss the rise of authoritarianism and its domination of the Russian digital space.
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Fri 24 April 2026
WML artist talk | Rogue agents of history
Larissa Sansour en Søren Lind gaan in gesprek met curator Nat Muller over de eerste solotentoonstelling in Nederland van de bekroonde Palestijnse kunstenaar Larissa Sansour. In Amsterdam.
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Fri 24 April 2026
Neerlandistiekdagen | Neerlandistiek: de toekomst!
Deze dag is speciaal voor docenten uit het vo, hbo en wo, onderzoekers en andere vakgenoten binnen de neerlandistiek. Centraal staat de vraag hoe de neerlandistiek van de toekomst eruitziet.
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Tue 28 April 2026
Middagprogramma | Giant robots, big ideas
Wetenschappers op het gebied van Japanse animatie, film- en literatuurwetenschap en cultuurgeschiedenis onderzoeken hoe 'giant robots' diepere vragen weerspiegelen over technologie, kunstmatige intelligentie, oorlog en de relatie tussen mens en machine.
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Wed 29 April 2026
Lecture | Bijutsu: The key issue of contemporary Japanese art
Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak (SOAS, University of London) explores why contemporary Japanese art used to be seen as an imitation of Western art and why it has turned into a fascinating subject since the late 1980s.
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Wed 29 April 2026
Conference | Materiality and historical research
The Leiden University Greek and Roman History Research Team organises a workshop of short presentations about a single object, or group of objects, that can demonstrate the importance of materiality in historical research.
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Thu 30 April 2026
NINO studentensymposium | Rediscovering Ancient Egypt
Sprekers van de opleidingen Oude Nabije Oosten Studies (BA) en Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA) presenteren hun lopend onderzoek in verband met de Egyptische en Nubische collecties van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
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Thu 30 April 2026
Lezing | Auschwitz et après: Kampliteratuur van Charlotte Delbo
Charlotte Delbo's driedelige 'Auschwitz et après' bleven binnen de kampliteratuur altijd onderbelicht vanwege hun experimentele karakter. nnelies Schulte Nordholt en Tommy van Avermaete nemen een aantal tekstfragmenten van Delbo onder de loep, om te begrijpen wat haar proza zo bijzonder maakt.
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Thu 30 April 2026
Online lecture | Tribulation and refuge after the Syrian revolution
Basit Kareem Iqbal (McMaster University) discusses how religious imaginations animate giving against the backdrop of war and displacement. When "God grants relief," how do humans find refuge in what is lost?
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Thu 30 April 2026
Lezing | Ken onszelve
Filosofen Savriël Dillingh en Floris Schleicher onderzoeken wat het betekent om jezelf te kennen en wat de grenzen daarvan zijn.
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May 2026
Sun 3 May 2026
Filosofiemiddag | Het ideaal van het goede
Onder begeleiding van filosoof en docent Werner van Rossum worden ideeën en idealen over het Goede bediscussieerd.
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Sun 3 May 2026
Concert | Lustrum spring concert Sempre Crescendo
With soloists Albert Jan de Boer, Sander de Jong, and Sara Corbey, and pianists Yiyuan Chen and Javier Hombria Hernández, student music organisation Sempre Crescendo promises to be an impressive performance. The orchestra and the Madrigaal and Padrigaal choirs will also perform various pieces.
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Thu 7 May 2026
RMO lezing | Een middeleeuwse bestseller
Emilie van Opstall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) verzorgt de jaarlijkse Zenobia-lezing. Ze vertelt over het Boek van Sindbad de Filosoof / Zeven Wijzen van Rome, een raamvertelling die vanaf de middeleeuwen tot de vroegmoderne tijd erg populair was.
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Thu 7 May 2026
Seminar | Water movements
Maud Rijks focuses on the historical roots and underlying structures of water movements and solidarity netoworks, to better understand their increasing presence, and expanding roles.
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Thu 7 May 2026
Joint talk | Art talk by Matthew Rampley and Vera Wolff
Matthew Rampley examines recent debates over socialist globalism in art. Vera Wolff situates the highly controversial exhibition 'Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939' within a broader field of contemporary projects in global art history and Cold War history of knowledge.
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Fri 8 May 2026
Symposium | Flitsen uit de historie van de belastingheffing
Verschillende sprekers reflecteren op de geschiedenis van belastingheffing in Nederland.
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Tue 12 May 2026 - Wed 13 May 2026
WML workshop | Indigenous futures: Towards policy on ancestral remains in the Netherlands
New theory and policy input on the framework of repatriation and handling of ancestral remains in the Netherlands is discussed, centring the perspectives of Indigenous and formerly colonised peoples.
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Tue 12 May 2026
Lecture | Intergenerational mobility among enslaved people in plantation hierarchies in colonial Suriname
Enid Holweg explores how the roles and social positions of enslaved people on plantations in 18th and 19th century Suriname changed over the course of their lifetimes. She also researches whether access to skilled or higher-status positions was concentrated within particular families and passed down through generations.
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Wed 13 May 2026
Lunch lecture | Transformations in global climate finance: Understanding emerging institutional approaches
This talk focuses on the reasons that have driven the emergence of global climate finance institutions from the dimensions of governance, operations, issue area, and control.
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Wed 13 May 2026
Book talk | Israeli-Turkish relations at the end of the Cold War: The geopolitics of denying the Armenian Genocide
Eldad Ben Aharon traces Israel’s diplomatic maneuvering through key geopolitical events and places them within broader regional and global shifts. He challenges the common idea that credits American Jewish organisations and Turkish Jews with shaping Ankara–Jerusalem relations and influencing Washington’s policies.
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Wed 13 May 2026
Lezing | Een historische en etymologische blik op co-spraak gebaren en tekens
Emily Shaw (University of Gallaudet) presenteert etymologisch onderzoek naar Amerikaanse Gebarentaal (ASL) en Franse Gebarentaal (LSF). Ze focust op hoe gebaren zijn overgedragen, getransformeerd en hergeïnterpreteerd over generaties en nationale contexten heen.
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Sun 17 May 2026
Wereldwandeling | Sporen van de Slavernij in Leiden
Aan de hand van deze wandeling door de straten van de historische binnenstad van Leiden, leer je meer over de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavenhandel en slavernij, lopend langs gebouwen waar handelaren, tot slaafgemaakten, en voorvechters voor de afschaffing van slavernij woonden.
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Tue 19 May 2026
Hybrid lecture | Kremlin's control and suppression strategies between 2000 – 2021
A sentiment analysis tool is used to trace Russia's evolution from overt repression to media manipulation under Putin, exploring how state-sponsored disinformation campaigns are used to influence public opinion, legitimise violence, and suppress dissent.
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Tue 19 May 2026
Lecture | Mind tools, language and the origins of AI
Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) explores how mind tools (devices that strengthen our cognition) work psychologically.
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Wed 20 May 2026
ASCL seminar | South-South divergence before the Green Revolution
According to historical income estimates, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa were more or less on similar levels in the 1960s. In 2020, per capita incomes in Southeast Asia were roughly three times higher than in Tropical Africa. Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University) tries to make sense of this dramatic difference.
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Thu 21 May 2026
Lecture | What language-specific ‘first aid kits’ can tell us about bilingualism
When we speak in another language, we often adapt sounds of that language and assimilate it to familiar sounds from our first language. In this talk, Tim Lamérises discuss phonological repair strategies in bilingualism.
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Thu 21 May 2026 - Fri 22 May 2026
Conference | The EU as a guardian of digital fairness and sustainable consumption
In a keynote speech, a roundtable and a panel, speakers discuss EU consumer protection, integration of environmental protection in EU legislation, and the protection of personal data.
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Thu 21 May 2026
Lezing | Leidse bespiegelingen - Filosofie en sport; spel, lichaam en politiek
Sportfilosofen Aldo Houterman en Sandra Meeuwsen reflecteren op hoe sport een onverwacht venster vormt op fundamentele vragen over mens en samenleving.
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Fri 22 May 2026
Alumni event | Celebrating 40 years of the Dutch Studies programme
Enjoy a review of 40 years of Dutch Studies by (former) staff members, a Dutch Studies quiz, an alumni panel, and drinks afterwards to celebrate 40 years since the BA Nederlandkunde/Dutch Studies was established in Leiden.
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Tue 26 May 2026
Hybride lezing | Experiences of migration, a pedagogy of fiction
prof.dr. Odile Heynders houdt een lezing over haar boek 'Experiences of Migration, A Pedagogy of Fiction'. Ze onderzoekt hoe fictieve verhalen over migratie bijdragen aan een specifieke vorm van kennis.
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Tue 26 May 2026
Seminar | Water worlds
Ifor Duncan (Utrecht University) challenges the traditional foundations and methods of thinking about human-water relations and discusses the deep histories of water.
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Wed 27 May 2026 - Thu 28 May 2026
Conference | NEXT GEN: The Hague Security Conference
After the second world war, the post-war international order seemed to be moving towards greater co-operation, stronger rules-based international order, and deepening economic interdependence. In recent years, however, hope of a more stable world order faded. Experts and emerging thinkers and practitioners discuss sharp analyses and fresh perspectives.
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Fri 29 May 2026
Lezing | Ierland in de 21e eeuw
Literatuurwetenschapper Amaranth Feuth bespreekt hoe Ierse schrijfster Sally Rooney het beroemdste echtpaar uit de Ierse literatuur, de Blooms uit James Joyces Ulysses, weergeeft in haar recente roman Intermezzo.
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June 2026
Wed 3 June 2026 - Fri 5 June 2026
Conference | Staging the heroine
Different speakers talk about the construction and performance of female heroism in literature, the visual arts and theatre between 1350 and 1800.
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Mon 8 June 2026
Lecture | The Biblical covenant and its afterlife
Robert Kawashima (University of Florida) and Stephen C. Russell (City University of New York) explore the significance of the Mosaic covenant and the influence that the biblical idea of the covenant had on early-modern political theory.
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Mon 8 June 2026
NINO hybrid lecture | The Achaemenid Persian empire and world history
Prof. Dr Miguel John Versluys gives the Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lecture and suggests the adoption of an Afro-Eurasian perspective on the idea of universalism around 500 BCE.
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Wed 10 June 2026
Conference | Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2026
This conference centers on the theme 'Reimagining international relations: Humanities and multidisciplinarity as key approaches'. In The Hague.
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Wed 10 June 2026
Hybride lezing | Geletterdheidsontwikkeling voor dove/slechthorende kinderen in de vroege jaren
Rachel Chomba (Universiteit van Zambia) onderzoekt de geletterdheidsontwikkeling van doof en slechthorende kinderen in de vroege jaren vanuit een taal-eerst en visueel gefundeerd perspectief.
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Fri 12 June 2026
Symposium | Humanities PhD Symposium 2026
PhD candidates from across the humanities share and discuss their ongoing research with peers and faculty members in an open, supportive setting.
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Mon 15 June 2026
Oratie | Archeology of Middle America
Alexander Geurds discusses how we can develop an archaeology of Middle America.
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Fri 19 June 2026
Study trip | Explore the Roman past of the Netherlands
Discober the Roman life near the limes in the modern province of Utrecht. Highlights of the trip include a visit to the Roman fort and Museum Hoge Woerd and a canal tour in a replica of a Roman ship.
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Sun 21 June 2026
Wereldwandeling | Sporen van de Slavernij in Leiden
Aan de hand van deze wandeling door de straten van de historische binnenstad van Leiden, leer je meer over de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavenhandel en slavernij, lopend langs gebouwen waar handelaren, tot slaafgemaakten, en voorvechters voor de afschaffing van slavernij woonden.
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Tue 23 June 2026
WML international symposium | Pacific Arts Association
Ttiled 'Oceanic Blazing Forms: Memory, Place-making and Imagination', this symposium rethinks global art histories through the growing intellectual space of the Wereldmuseum. It challenges the structures and assumptions of both art history and anthropology through new approaches to material culture.
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Fri 26 June 2026
KITLV hybrid festival | Celebration 175 years KITLV !
The Institute's researchers creatively show their work, and the works produced by Atelier KITLV will be exhibited and explained. There will also be dance and spoken word. At the UBL, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other objects from the KITLV Collection are highlighted.
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Tue 30 June 2026
Conference | The Hague threat intelligence exchange
Speakers explore the landscape of cyber threats and encourage collaboration between private sector threat intelligence, government, and academia. In The Hague.
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July 2026
Wed 1 July 2026 - Fri 3 July 2026
Conference | The prayer book as object and practice, 1300–1800
Different researchers explore the broader network of prayer books across late medieval and early modern Europe. They focus on the material book, its texts and images, devotions inspired by these texts and images, producers of the books, and the communities to which they belong.
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Thu 2 July 2026
KITLV symposium | Caribbean Studies: Past, present, and future of the field
Rosemarijn Hoefte retires from her roles as senior researcher and member of the management team at KITLV. She reflects on the past, present, and future of the field of Caribbean studies.
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Sun 5 July 2026 - Tue 7 July 2026
Conference | Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift
Criminal law and immigration are increasingly linked, known as "crimmigration." This trend has grown with the rise of authoritarian and far-right politics. The conference examines how migration has become central to nationalist agendas.
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Sun 5 July 2026 - Tue 7 July 2026
Conference | Crimmigration in an age of authoritarian drift
The fusion of criminal law and immigration enforcement (crimmigration) has intensified globally. Different speakers explore how crimmigration works as a tool of governance and political performance in democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian settings.
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Fri 10 July 2026
Symposium | History of sign language: Emergence, transmission, and change
Researchers, students, and international professionals promote the exchange of research and experiences. They also reflect on sign languages from a broad historical perspective, discussing their early records, sociolinguistic development, and current uses.
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