A conference about cultural heritage in the Levant which takes place in collaboration with Leiden University and Ex Oriente Lux. | read more
The aim of the conference is to return to a central theme in the history of Italian language and literature, namely the role they have in building an Italian identity and an individual or collective image of being Italian, both in Italy and abroad. | read more
The history of collecting can be viewed through a variety of paradigms, as keynote speaker prof. John Guy argues. He will analyse historical, cultural, political and ethnic framing of collecting Asian art, both in private and public arenas. | read more
Tijdens de wandeling schenkt conservator Annemarieke Willemsen speciale aandacht aan objecten die ooit in het museum te zien waren en nu niet meer: godenbeelden uit Indonesië, bronzen uit de Renaissance, aardewerk uit Peru en Attila de Hun uit Maastricht. | read more
Book launch of 'The Killing Season': an outstanding study on the human rights violations in Indonesia in 1965-66 which explores one of least examined instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century. | read more
This conference seeks to understand the connection between the degree of urbanisation within conquered territories and Rome’s political agenda, and how other factors may have contributed to the diverging trajectories of the urban communities of Italy. | read more
This talk considers the impact of the ancient and living cultures on an Australian public at China’s first modern international exposition in 1988. | read more
Lecture on the impact of the Wind Mega-project on inclusive development in Kenya. | read more
Onderzoekers lichten een tip van de sluier op van hun onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van de Chinezen in Indonesië. Daarnaast maakt het CIHC de resultaten van een aantal van haar projecten bekend. Er is ook weer aandacht voor beeldmateriaal en cultuur. | read more
Julia Krul presents her book 'The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk' and Renate Dekker presents her book 'Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique Egypt'. | read more
Gert Oostindie en Wouter Veenendaal geven op basis van recent gepubliceerde artikelen een overzicht van de huidige stand van zaken in de koninkrijksrelaties. | read more
This farewell symposium offers a varied impression of ongoing research on the role of law and governance in North Africa/Middle East, Indonesia and Sub-Sahara Africa. | read more
The documentary film Les lions of the Belgian anthropologist Jean-Frédéric de Hasque will be screened followed by a Q&A. | read more
This seminar is an interrogation of the various ways in which knowledge about plants has been generated in ethnobotanical studies. | read more
Opening of the exhibition 'We Are The Legacy: Celebrating Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018' which features portraits of 100 African legacy makers who, in their own unique way, embody Nelson Mandela’s three key principles. | read more
Marisa Bantjes vertelt je over de planten en hun gebruik in de traditionele Chinese geneeskunde, en hoe in China wordt aangekeken tegen voedsel en gezondheid. | read more
The 5-day international conference unites a wide range of scholars in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. | read more
In het weekend van 8 en 9 september 2018 zijn meer dan vierduizend prachtige monumenten in heel Nederland gratis toegankelijk voor iedereen. Dit jaar is het thema: In Europa. | read more
Martijn Eickhoff, senior onderzoeker bij het NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, houdt een lezing over de rol en de positie van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. | read more
The aim of this conference is to analyze how European cities managed influxes of immigrants from the mid-1940s to 1970s, and then from the 1970s to early 2000s. | read more
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Een festival georganiseerd door Leiden Marketing, Cultuurfonds Leiden, de universiteit en de gemeente waar de bezoeker in de binnenstad geniet van een verrassend programma van wetenschap, theater, muziek en kunst. | read more
Tineke Rooijakkers zal spreken over de damesmode in Laat-Klassiek Egypte, en hoe het gebruik van haarstijl en opvallende sieraden een belangrijk onderdeel vormden van de garderobe van de Egyptische vrouw in de eerste eeuwen van onze jaartelling. | read more
The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society will host the Third Annual Conference of the Law & Development Research Network and is organized by the international Law & Development Research (LDR) Network. | read more
Dean’s lecture on the uses of iconic depiction which goes beyond its universal functions, such as rendering present and active in images specific sets of ontological properties. The lecture discusses this aspect more in depth. | read more
Voor de 24e keer krijgen bezoekers een kijkje achter de schermen bij professionele kunstenaars in Leiden. Museum De Lakenhal geeft met de Kunstroute Leiden beeldende kunst in alle soorten en maten een podium. | read more
This public symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts—including historians, legal scholars, and policymakers—and explores the nature and consequences of various “refugee crises” in the modern era. | read more
Renske Dooijes, restaurator bij het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, loopt langs de Griekse collectie en vertelt over een groot restauratieproject dat vooraf ging aan de herinrichting van deze nieuwe vaste opstelling. | read more
This conference focuses on critical global pedagogies. It does so along the lines of four interrelated themes: pedagogies beyond the classroom, decolonizing knowledge and worlding pedagogies, contesting the neoliberal university and pedagogies of failure. | read more
The aim of the conference is not only to gain insight into the academic study and the historiography of Jewish ritual, but to transcend the conventional (Western) Christian bias inherent in the study of ritual in search of other and new vantage points. | read more
Brave New World is an annual conference which discusses what ethical and societal impact new technologies could have on human life, before the innovations are introduced in society. | read more
Dr Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood will discuss the clothes and textiles found in the 1920s in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun. The lecture will focus on some of the most spectacular of the garments, namely the embroidered clothes. | read more
This conference takes stock of existing ideas on the nexus between nationalism and international order; it aims to identify major gaps in empirical research; and it aspires to contribute to the theorisation of international relations and global politics. | read more
The Leiden Papyrology+ Group organizes a yearly international conference under the general heading of 'Papyri in a Changing World'. This year's conference is on transformation and continuity of legal formulae in diachronic and geographic perspective. | read more
Conference which addresses the challenge of safeguarding children’s rights in immigration law. | read more
A conference on the MENA Region in the Modern Period Cairo where the issues of physical and mental health will be analysed by discussing how they intersect with social and economic concerns. | read more