In this event, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek (Universiteit Utrecht/Monumentenzorg) gives an overview of the most splendid Amsterdam interior of the eighteenth century, as well as their commissioners and designers. | read more
LUCAS (Leiden University) and OSL (Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies) rethink the term 'crisis' in the context of the Mediterranean through looking at literary, artistic and other forms of cultural expression and activisim in the region. | read more
The Adriaan Gerbrands lecture intends to promote academic and popular interest in research combining material culture studies, the anthropology of art, and visual anthropology. Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli (Colombia University) will give this year's lecture. | read more
The Research Center for Material Culture invites you to a masterclass with renowned anthropologist and filmmaker Prof. Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Colombia University). She will focus on her work as part of the Karrabing Film Collective in particular. | read more
For the Forum Antiquum Lectures organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Prof. dr. Mauro Bonazzi (Utrecht University) gives a lecture titled ‘Political all too political. Protagoras against the experts’ | read more
This virtual conference brings together the expertise of performers, researchers, and pedagogues to answer why the late nineteenth century was such a flourishing time in the history of pianism. This conference features Dr. Anna Scott (Leiden University). | read more
In this Institute of Political Science lecture, Danie Stockmann (Hertie School) discusses digital China and managing citizen participation under political change. | read more
The Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) discuss migration-related topics and creates an open dialogue. Dr. Darshan Vigneswaran (University of Amsterdam) gives a lecture titled 'The Grid: Making A Universal Migration Regime'. | read more
Istanbul Greek speakers distinguish themselves from other types of Greeks based on language ideologies. Matthew John Hadodo (University of Pittsburgh/University of Bern) discusses the embodiment of this minoritised speech community. | read more
Prof. dr. Jacques van der Vliet (NINO/Universiteit Leiden) spreekt in de Leidse Papyrologielezing over 'Moedwil en misverstand op het Egyptische platteland' vanuit de Tempelzaal van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. | read more
In this session Dr. Alice Twemlow and a panel of artistic researchers working in different media explore their various approaches to walking as a research method as walking can provide designers and artists with ways to think and make. | read more
#TranslationCafé promotes informal talks on a range of topics relevant for translators, translation researchers and other translation stakeholders. Three speakers exchange views on translation in moments of crisis and take questions from the audience. | read more
How is perception instrumental in making decisions? In this Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities lecture, Ksenia Fedorova explores how art can help to challenge and expand our conceptions of perception in empirical research. | read more
In deze lezing van het Leids Historisch Dispuut Merlijn vertelt onderwijshistoricus Anneke Boot over de geschiedenis van het vakonderwijs in Leiden. | read more
Former Dutch colony West Papua's rich natural resources are a curse for the Papuans. In this lecture, legal counselor Fadjar Schouten-Korwa explores legal avenues to adress the crime of ecocide. | read more
While political leaders of sub-Saharan African states welome their young populations, demographers are generally pessimistic. Prof. Richard Cincotta speaks on the age structure and the timing of African development. | read more
As part of the Topical Issues in Museums guest lectures, professor and director of the Museums, Collections and Society Research Group, Pieter ter Keurs will discuss art, memory and identity in New Guinea. | read more
Studium Generale en Rijksmuseum Boerhaave organiseren een lezingenreeks rondom de tentoonstelling Besmet! Universitair docent Middleeuwse Geschiedenis Claire Weeda kijkt in deze lezing naar hoe de stad Sint-Truiden omging met pest in de vijftiende eeuw. | read more
In this Asian Connections Seminar, Dr. Suraya Afiff (Universitas Indonesia) and Dr. Clara Mi Young Park (FAO Regional Office for Africa) discuss environmental transformation and access to land in Southeast Asia. | read more
In deze topstuklezing vertelt David Kertai, conservator van de collectie oude Nabije Oosten in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden over het reliëf van de Assyrische koning Tiglathpileser III en geeft hij een inkijkje in het Assyrische rijk. | read more
This free course by Leiden University, taught by Prof.dr. Giles Scott-Smith (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies) uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. | read more
In this free Leiden University coursera course by Dr. Sada Mire you will learn to articulate your own concepts about (threatened) heritage and that of others. What is your heritage? Who defines heritage? How can we protect heritage? | read more
The Ethics Committee for Dutch Museums and the Research Center for Material Culture (Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, Afrika Museum) organise a seminar on the Dutch ethical Code for museums, which starts with a keynote lecture open to the general public. | read more
As part of the Topical Issues in Museums guest lectures, Dr. Martin Berger talks about indigeneity and national identity at the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology. | read more
In this Leiden University Shi'i Studies Initiative seminar, Prof. David Cook (Rice University) discusses “The Sufyānī” Shiʿi and Sunni Perspectives on Justice during the end-times Battles”. | read more
In this Forum Antiquum Spring 2021 lecture, assistant professor of Ancient Greek Dr. Luuk Huitink (University of Amsterdam) gives a lecture titled 'Plotting History: writing your own Anabasis'. | read more
Heba Taha, lecturer of International Relations at Leiden University looks at the role of central banks during times of conflict. She focuses particularly on the cases of Libya and Yemen starting from 2014 until the present. | read more
As part of the RCMC series of conversations 'A Future where Racism has no Place - What can Museums Do' a group of curators reflect on their own experience regarding anti-racist curation. | read more
Paintings played an important role in the eighteenth-century interior. In this lecture, the different facets of 'painted rooms' will be highlighted, based on examples from private residences from the 18th century Dutch Republic. | read more
Dr. Gregory Bracken (TU Delft) highlights key points from a series of multidisciplinary essays on urban life in Asia and the West; the problems and opportunities. | read more
Claudia Swan's (Washington University) 'Rarities of These Lands' explores how the Dutch Republic turned foreign objects into expressions of its national self-conception. Marika Keblusek reflects on these new insights on Dutch arts and culture. | read more
Atelier KITLV is a series of three events exploring creolisation as a politics, aesthetics, and ethics of becoming. This webinar explores a plural and creolised India with Francio Guadeloupe and discussant Wayne Modest (RCMC). | read more
As part of the 'Interiors for Display' lecture series, Kira d'Alburquerque (The Victoria & Albert Museum) gives a lecture on Giovanni Foggini (1652-1735), who was involved in most interior decors of the time. | read more
In deze topstuklezing vertelt Lara Wiess, conservator collectie Egypte in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden over de kapel van Paätenemheb, koninklijk schenker aan het hof van Toetanchamon. | read more
Zijn trigger warnings ook nodig als het gaat om thema’s als verkrachting of moord in de Oudheid? Oudhistorica Kim Beerden en conservator Annemarieke Willemsen (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) bespreken het spanningsveld. | read more
Valentijn Carbo (Hendrik de Kyserstichting) will take a closer look at the problems that can arise when 18th century interiors become part of a Museum House. How to display for example wall hanging that have been lost? Do rooms need to be refurnished? | read more
The Research Centre for Material Culture invites Kaiama L. Glover (Colombia University) as a lead-in to the Inward/Outward symposium to discuss her book on Caribbean womanhood and the ethics of disorderly being. | read more
hristiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) werd gezien als een van de grootste wetenschappers uit zijn tijd. Wie was deze man en wat waren zijn opvattingen over de islam? Hoogleraar geschiedenis Wim van den Doel (Universiteit Leiden) gaat in op deze vragen. | read more
In this Political Science Workshop, Reinoud Leenders, Reader in International Relations and Middle East Studies (King's College London) discusses Proxy Wars in Syria. | 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
Can we solve more complex problems when we're continuously supported by a digital device? In this session of the Centre for Digital Humanities Lunchtime Speaker Series, Robin de Lange discusses learning through virtual and augmented reality. | read more
All Islamists have to operate in a hostile environment which is dominated by secular norms and practices. Leiden University lecturer Marina Calculli explores Islamist groups that manage to resist stigma and coercion in order to pursue their goals. | read more
Kerim Friedman (National Dong Hwa University) explores the shifting representations of Taiwan's indigenous peoples in films by indigenous and non-indigenous directors alike. | read more
As part of the Topical Issues in Museums guest lectures, Leiden University researcher Holly O'Farrell discusses twentieth-century Dutch women picturing the Middle East and their collections at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands. | read more
Christine Casey (Trintiy College) explores the range of approaches to the decorative interior in Britain with emphasis on the role of craftsmanship and considers the misrepresentation of architectural production in the period. | read more
This conference by Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), presents a unique opportunity for all interested parties to explore the multiple actions, states and meanings of bodies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. | read more
Leiden University lecturer Dr. Ben Aharon discusses Israel's foreign policy doctrine in light of its geopolitical interests in the South Caucasus and its involvement in the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. | read more
In this Leiden Interdisiplinary Migration Seminar, Dr. Elif Naz Kayran Meier (Institute for Public Administration Leiden) gives a lecture on inclusive electorial institutions and political efficacy of ethnic voters in diverse democracies. | read more
As part of the 'Interiors for Display' lecture series, Helen Jacobs (The Wallace Collection) looks at the development of neoclassical taste in French interiors and fashionable decorative art.. | read more
In this Leiden Political Science Workshop, Professor of International Affairs and chair of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies Melani Cammett (Harvard University) discusses Hindus and Muslims in Delhi Slums. | read more
This event is organised by the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development in honor of Dr. Olivier Nieuwenhuijse and will be held at the National Museum of Antiquities. | read more
The Amerikanistendag is a student conference and serves as a forum for students and recent graduates to present their research within the field of American Studies. The conference also includes an award ceremony for the best MA thesis in American Studies. | read more
Daniel Soliman, conservator collectie Egypte van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden vertelt over de lange geschiedenis van de tempel van Taffeh, de tempel die in de grote entreehal van het museum staat. | read more
The use of colour, texture and design of textiles is fundamental to the appearance and purpose of fashionable spaces. Annabel Westman (The Attingham Trust) shows the range of textile furnishings from the 18th century furnished room. | read more
This talk describes documentary projects involving speaker communities of the Tanzanian Rift Valley Area, which could be described as marginalised. How can community-led language documentation be of greater value to the speaker communities themselves? | read more
As part of the Topical Issues in Museums guest lectures, Leiden University Professor Dr. Kitty Zijlmans discusses the formation of a National Collection for the Netherlands. | read more
This online conference organised by Leiden University Professor LGBT Workplace Inclusion Jojanneke van der Toorn and VVI Research Assistant Waruguru Gaitho brings together knowledge on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion. | read more
Dr. Miles Tendi (University of Oxford) focuses on the life of Solomon Mujuru, a controversial African liberation fighter in the 1970s and, until his assassination in 2011, an important figure in Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party in Zimbabwe. | read more
