In this CCP lecture, political theorist Matthew Hoye speaks about Thomas Hobbes’s theory of new foundations in Leviathan (1651). One of the goals of this presentation is to explicate a theory of new foundations in Hobbes' books. | read more
In this LCCP guest lecture, Prof. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, a specialist in German Idealism, contemporary philosophy, and aesthetics, will present and discuss a paper on Jean-Luc Nancy and particularly his book Noli me tangere. | read more
Crimmigration has rapidly become the dominant response to human mobility around the globe. This Leiden Law conference calls attention to the various 'faces' and experiences of crimmigration and bordering across the globe. | read more
Op deze collegedag van het Historisch Nieuwsblad vertellen tophistorici over de machtsstructuur van het Romeinse keizerrijk. In de Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam delen bekende historici hun kennis over de politiek-culturele geschiedenis van de Romeinen. | read more
What have been the effects of the colonial era on Africa and what is the way forward? These questions are central in this ASCL seminar, featuring a discussion chaired by Prof. Maarten Mous and a panel with several ASCL experts. | read more
Sociolinguists have examined linguistic material ranging from fine sociophonetic detail to macro semiotic categories. This lecture engages with one underexplored linguistic resource, namely first names and the language ideologies constructed around them. | read more
This inaugural conference from The Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (IAGMR) from the University of Surrey gives an opportunity to rethink, revise, and renew understanding of Austrian and German music of the 19th and 20th centuries. | read more
In this guest lecture, professor Morris Rossabi attempts to show the vital relationship and impact of Sasanians from Iran and Sogdians from Central Asia on Chinese art and religion with respect to the Silk Roads. | read more
The talk series "New Perspectives on Chinese philosophy" invites us to reinterpret selected ideas of Chinese thinkers across various historical periods and disciplines of philosophy. The lectures are given by Assistant Professor Dawid Rogacz. | read more
In this lecture, Cynthia Kok (Harvard University) and Margaret Mansfield (University of California, Santa Barbara) trace how craftspeople learned from firsthand experience of imported materials such as mother-of-pearl, which became a generative resource. | read more
This lecture by Dawid Rogacz, Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, offers an overview of the way the category of public interest (公 gōng) was understood over the centuries by Chinese philosophers of law and politics. | read more
The Forum Antiquum Lectures Fall 2021 have been organised as part of the Leiden University Greek-Dutch dictionary project. This lecture, given by Bram Demulder, is titled: 'Heavenly Love, Vulgar Love, and something in between: on a Platonic innovation.' | read more
Many heritage and museum discussions are now centred around contested heritage. This seminar aims to address the causes, effects and societal circumstances of the debates on appropriation, ownership and restitution of heritage. | read more
This lecture in the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society What's New?! Series features a talk by dr. Rafael Oliveira about the rigid territorial conception of Palestine and the erasure of local categories of territoriality. | read more
What happens to a town after joining the UNESCO World Heritage List? Pierpaolo De Giosa, author of 'A Cityscape below the Winds,' will tackle this question in this book talk, organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies. | read more
SEI & DUE are two chapters of the ongoing collaboration featuring dance and music between Suzan Tunca and Giuliano Bracci, artistic researchers and PhD candidates at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) at Leiden University. | read more
Prof. Maartje van der Woude, hoogleraar Rechtssociologie, organiseert samen met kunstenaarscollectief Liquid Society House of Misconceptions. Het neemt je mee in de wereld van impliciete en expliciete beelden en vooroordelen die mensen hebben. | read more
Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden organiseert twee keer per maand een online topstukkenlezing. Tijdens deze lezing vertelt Ruurd Halbertsma, conservator collectie Klassieke wereld, over de grote camee van de Romeinse keizer Constantijn. | read more
In deze hybride lezing (zowel online als fysiek) 'Tenochtitlan leven in luxe in de Azteekse hoofdstad' van Museum Volkenkunde vertelt Rik Herder over het ontstaan, de architectuur en de bewoners van de hoofdstad van het Azteekse rijk. | read more
In deze muzikale voorstelling van het museum Volkenkunde brengt het duo Edoardo Ramos en Osvaldo Padrón een interpretatie van een oude Azteekse legende. Met replica’s van oude instrumenten neemt de verhalenverteller het publiek mee naar het oude Mexico. | read more
The talk series "New Perspectives on Chinese philosophy" invites us to reinterpret selected ideas of Chinese thinkers across various historical periods and disciplines of philosophy. The lectures are given by Assistant Professor Dawid Rogacz. | read more
Lizzie Marx will talk about Fleeting – Scents in Colour, an exhibition that was held at the Mauritshuis about smell in seventeenth-century art. This presentation discusses the various ways in which artworks evoke smell and scents. | read more
Kassaram is a short film about the historical orientalist way of looking at different communities around the world and its perpetuation in the present. Thania Petersen presentsg her film in conversation with Erika Mei Chua Holum. | read more
The print culture of 1920s Lagos, Nigeria, was innovative and lively. Karin Barber (University of Birmingham) discusses print culture and genres and the evolving social and political situation in colonial Lagos. | read more
In this IS4 Webinar, Em. Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt from KITLV, in conversation with Prof. Bambang Purwanto from Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia, explore the diverse narratives around Indonesia’s pre-1945 history. | read more
The fifth lunch meeting of the Liveable Planet programme, an interdisciplinary programme from Leiden University, discusses a proposal how to use the nitrogen crisis to tackle other major crises in the Netherlands, such as the climate and housing crisis. | read more
In this lecture in the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society "What's New?!"-series, Imar Koutchoukali explores linguistic transformations in Late Antique South Arabia, a period which saw dramatic changes in South Arabia. | read more
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics organise the Subtitle-a-thon Challenge, an initiative that invites the public to add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips. | read more
As part of the European University of Well-Being (EUniWell) collaborative project, Leiden University, Semmelweis University, the University of Florence and the University of Birmingham host an online symposium on student well-being. | read more
De Vijfde Indische Letteren-lezing van de Universiteit Leiden vindt plaats met een voordracht van prof. dr. Siegfried Huigen, hoogleraar Nederlandse letterkunde aan de universiteiten van Wrocław en Stellenbosch, onder de titel: Kennis van de kolonie. | read more
The Modern and Contemporary research cluster of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society will resume its monthly meeting series. The first meeting of this academic year discusses interfaciality in media art and photography. | read more
This lecture in the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society "What's New?!"-series discusses outside intervention in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. Willem Vogelsang tries to answer the question "What went wrong?". | read more
The Forum Antiquum Lectures Fall 2021 have been organised as part of the Leiden University Greek-Dutch dictionary project. This lecture, given by Leanne Jansen, is titled: 'Images of Cicero the statesman in Roman historiography.' | read more
Leids klassiek archeologe Diana de Wild (alumna UL) spreekt over de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten van 10.000 jaar geschiedenis in Ierland, tijdens deze cursus op 11 en 18 oktober in de Bibliotheek Bollenstreek. | read more
As part of the Inward Outward symposium, Prof. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay discusses the double disappearance of the Jews from Africa and from the French colonisation of North Africa through jewelry pieces and other metal works with Wayne Modest. | read more
The international symposium Inward Outward explores the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. This year's theme is Emotion in the Archive. | read more
In 2020-21 the first exhibition devoted to Dutch's artists fascination with Oriental motifs was held in Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum Barberini in Potsdam. The guest curator, Gary Schwartz, tells about the exhibition and its theme. | read more
Lucia Admiraal focuses on 20th century Egyptian Jewish celebrations within the contexts of Egyptian Jewish historiography and Egyptian nationalism in this lecture in the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society "What's New?!"-series. | read more
This conference aims to provide a broad spectre of manifestations of human fascination with the aquatic fauna, from 1500 to 1800. Many experts discuss the subject of fish as part and parcel of human civilisation. | read more
The 2021 NVAS Africa Day supported by the African Studies Centre Leiden will study the role of entrepreneurship in contemporary Africa, and specifically aim to explore how entrepreneurs across Africa respond to the global pandemic. | read more
Tijdens deze topstukkenlezing van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden vertelt Raphaël Rijntjes, assistent-conservator collectie Middeleeuwen, over het middeleeuwse Ulfberht-zwaard dat rond het jaar 1000 is gemaakt en in 1983 langs de Maas bij Lith werd gevonden. | read more
RIAS will host a conference on public health and disease in the 'American century,' which aims to bring together historians of medicine and US politics, society, and foreign relations, to place the COVID-19 pandemic in its historical context. | read more
Hugh Kennedy discusses the impact of Baghdad on the economy of the Islamic world and wider Eurasia, from China to the Mediterranean in the ninth and tenth centuries within this lecture in the LUCIS "What's New?!"-series. | read more
The Forum Antiquum Lectures Fall 2021 have been organised as part of the Leiden University Greek-Dutch dictionary project. This lecture, given by Joseph Zehner, is titled: ' Craft vs. Birth: Aphrodite in Empedocles.' | read more
Hugh Kennedy teaches six masterclasses on the idea of a “Greater Mesopotamia” and its importance in understanding the economy and geopolitics of the early Islamic world. This masterclass focuses on the opportunities for cultivation in Greater Mesopotamia. | read more
What does democracy mean to Burmese activists and democratic leaders and to their international allies? This IIAS webinar talk explores contested meanings of democracy in Myanmar and awareness can help make sense of the country’s tortuous political path. | read more
This conference examines how expectations of justice shaped political discourse and behaviour in the early and medieval Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE). Participants will present case studies discussing just rule in specific contexts. | read more
This African Studies Centre (ASCL) seminar explores economic inequalities and territorial oppositions in African politics. Catherine Boone, Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, discusses the subject. | read more
In this first Leiden Delft Erasmus Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity 'Early Career Network workshop series,' dr. Nadia Bouras from Leiden University leads the session 'how to deal with social media as a migration scholar.' Registration required | read more
Hugh Kennedy, Al-Babtain Visiting Professor, teaches six masterclasses on the idea of a “Greater Mesopotamia” and its importance in understanding the economy and geopolitics of the early Islamic world. This lecture revolves around transport in the area. | read more
Het Mexicaanse Día de Muertos (Dag van de Doden) feest is wereldwijd bekend. Minder bekend is dat de Azteken al festivals hadden voor de overledenen. William Arfman gaat in deze lezing dieper in op de verering van overledenen door inheemse volken. | read more
Jasper de Bruin, conservator collectie Nederland in de Romeinse tijd, vertelt in deze lezing over de bronsschat van Nistelrode. De samenstelling van de bronsschat laat zien wat er in de Romeinse tijd aan bronzen vaatwerk werd gebruikt. | read more
This IIAS and Rijksmuseum Masterclass for students presents the iconographic programme of the Tabo Main Temple, the earliest Tibetan Buddhist monument which is largely preserved today, in full and in the complex relationship of its different parts. | read more
In this LUCIS lecture, Maribel Fierro deals with a ritual first attested in the Maghrib under the Fatimids, when the third imam-caliph personally and publicly sacrificed a she-camel during the Festival of Sacrifice. | read more
The Forum Antiquum Lectures have been organised as part of the Leiden University Greek-Dutch dictionary project. This lecture is titled: ' Tyrrhenus fato profugus. Neo-Latin Panegyrics and the Humanist Appropriation of Etruscan Foundational Myths.' | read more
This International Institute for Asian Studies/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture demonstrates how important the Vajradhātu mandala is for understanding how mandalas develop and how newer esoteric Buddhist ideas influence its appearance in Tibetan Buddhism. | read more
Discussions, lectures, performances and research presentations on renewed approaches and recent (re)discoveries on the performance practices of late 17th and early 18th century Italian music are at the heart of this "art_research_convergence" congress. | read more
Marilisa Birello (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Paola Leone (University of Salento) tell about new perspectives in teaching oral interaction of Italian as a Second Language, followed by a round table on teaching Italian in Dutch high schools. | read more
Deze Museum Volkenkunde lezing staat in het teken van de meest recente archeologische vondsten die zijn gedaan en over wat voor bijzonders er in de afgelopen 40 jaar allemaal gevonden is tijdens de opgravingen bij de Templo Mayor in Mexico-Stad. | read more
Brave New World is an annual conference about future technology's effect on business, policies and life. The conference discusses what ethical and societal impact new technologies could have on human life, before the innovations are introduced in society. | read more