This conference, organised by Leiden University in collaboration with King's college London, adresses the legacies of contested monuments and objects. Ideas of new homes, new interpretations and new meanings are discussed. | read more
A conversation to think beyond the romanticizations of nomadism, beyond the often voyeuristic images of refugees, to think more caringly about what it means to constanly be in the process of "scaling the dark". | read more
In Noord-Holland is een vindplaats van Romeinse schatten die zijn weerga niet kent in Europa: het Romeinse Fort Velsen I. Tijdens deze lezing wordt het nieuwe onderzoeksrapport over daar gevonden houten voorwerpen gepresenteerd. | read more
What’s the value of an endangered language? Prof. Friedman (National Dong Hwa University and chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University) explores the efforts of a community-based Indigenous language revitalization program in eastern Taiwan. | read more
Once the pandemic reached the United States, nationalist rhetoric and policies intensified. Yet, the closing of borders and blaming of other nations contrasted with the knowledge that global cooperation was needed to fight the virus. | read more
The title of the paper is borrowed from the article of R. MacMullen (1986), arguing that Christianity did not change much in attitudes towards slavery and inhumane punishment. This lecture questions some of the assumptions of this debate. | read more
This workshop is about about supporting collections-based organizations to (effectively) connect with the Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop is intended for people working with, or studying, public or private collections, worldwide. | read more
In this Leiden University Centre for Linguistics lecture, Dr. Elizabeth Barakos (Universität Hamburg) discusses language policy in times of social and political transformation, using the case of bilingual Wales in the UK. | read more
Practicum Artium is a joint programme by KABK and Leiden University that offers talented students from Leiden University the opportunity to develop their artistic skills in drawing, graphic design, painting or photography during a semester at KABK. | read more
In Mandarin, a number of different constructions surface with a copular like element shì or a sentence final de or both. The current study concentrates on one type of shì…de construction which has a propositional broad focus interpretation. | read more
Prof. Koen Bostoen (Ghent University) discusses discontinuities in the population history of Central-African Bantu speech communities, that urge scholars to rethink how to extract the past from the present. | read more
This Penn-Leiden conference on ancient values addresses the practices and discourses of work, skill and craft in antiquity. It focuses not just on the economic "value" of labour, but also on the cultural, aesthetic "value". | read more
This talk examines the historical and political processes and outcomes surrounding the emergence and transformation of neo-prebendalism in Iran’s political economy between 1989 and 2017, a period with four presidents with distinct political preferences. | read more
The Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology and ICOMOS organise the ICAHM Annual Meeting which explores archaeological heritage management from a people-centred approach. | read more
Learn about the morafe or kingdom of the Barolong, which played a central role in the history of the Southern African interior from at least the beginning of the 18th century and until at least the 1770s. Then it collapsed during an epidemic. | read more
In what way can archaeology help the transition to a habitable planet with ecological sustainability? Dr. Maikel Kuijpers intends his presentation as a showcase, exploring three routes to answer this question. The routes are to inform, learn, and shape. | read more
International instruments protect Brazilian indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and traditionally-occupied territories. However, advancing globalization markets has fueled Brazilian conservative movements that aim to dismantle this protection. | read more
As part of the LUCL Language Policy Virtual Research Seminars on Language Policy and Practices in the Global North and South, this lecture is about language revival: from the genesis of Israeli to language reclamation in Australia and beyond. | read more
This lecture considers the range of evidence for Jewish messianism and eschatology in the period after the completion of the Talmud Yerushalmi and the great Palestinian midrashim in the fifth century. | read more
Als auteur, maar ook als lezer van jeugdliteratuur, kan Bibi Dumon Tak niet aanzien hoe jonge lezers worden afgescheept met stoffige boeken en saaie methoden. In haar Verwey-lezing prijst ze 'onveilig' leren lezen voor jeugdliteratuur. | read more
In 1947 the leaders of the newly independent country India, saw with disgust how the rank and file of citizens were housed. They promised slum-dwellers decent and affordable housing. The resulting activities form the core of this webinar. | read more
During this seminar Associate Professor Jan Pierskalla discusses how civil servants are used to facilitate the distribution of clientelistic goods at mass-scale to win competitive elections in low-income countries. | read more
Margo Groenewoud talks about a recently published article which traces roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, and approaches these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. | read more
This workshop by ASCL, LUCIS and LUCAS, follows examples of Muslim discourse that have travelled across Islamic Africa, in different languages, scripts, and registers of expression, through different social environments and periods. | read more
Herman Paul, hoogleraar Geschiedenis van de Geesteswetenschappen, houdt vanuit het Academiegebouw een lezing over het thema 'Kritisch denken: over het ethos van de geesteswetenschappen'. De lezing is online te volgen. | read more
In the framework of 'Africa 2020', the ASCL and LeidenASA organise the Somali-day, during which Somalia is addressed from a historical-cultural perspective by reconsidering Somali culture and governance through the lens of its literature and diaspora. | read more
This Leiden Centre for Indian Ocean Studies webinar discusses 'Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean' by Nira Wickramasinghe and Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) | read more
Muziektheatergezelschap de Veenfabriek vroeg componist / muzikant Bastiaan Woltjer en culinair storyteller Maureen de Jong om samen met drie jonge acteurs te onderzoeken hoe NU muziektheater te maken met betrekking tot slavernij en het koloniale verleden. | read more
This online Leiden University Shii Studies Initiative (LUSSI) conference widens the Islamic perspectives on the role of Islam to evolution and will address key themes in Science and Religion, Evolutionary Biology, and Islamic theology and philosophy. | read more
The Crucifixion (ca.1425) of the Master of the Lamentation of Christ in Lindau was in a bad condition for decades. The work has been made presentable by conservator Caroline van der Elst for the Body Language exhibition. The restoration continues. | read more
Rolando Vázquez, a scholar whose sustained thinking about the museum and its function, as related to the role of modern aesthetics, asks us to think seriously, caringly, and pragmatically about time, space, and our relationship to both. | read more
hild marriage is prohibited by international law, yet it is estimated that about 150 million girls will be married in childhood by 2030. Learn about the consequences of child marriage as these children grow into adulthood. | read more
Panel discussion on climate change in Asian and African coastal cities and their residents. The IIAS-Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) looks at everyday urban practices as a source of knowledge and action in relation to the climate | read more
This conference explores how reading experiences were shaped both by producers and users of vernacular books, from an international and interdisciplinary perspective (combining book history, literary history, art history, religious studies, and history). | read more
The International Institute for Asian Studies and partners organise a symposium at the Institute of Developing Economies in Chiba, Japan. Is 'gentrification' the best concept with which to describe what is going on in Asian cities? | read more
Public initiatives to develop the economy in the district of Pallars Jussà (Catalonia) highlight “diversity” as its distinctive trait. Federico De Musso addresses skill to incorporate and deal with different kinds of "diversity" in livelihood. | 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
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
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
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
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
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
Requests for just rule surface constantly as notions of justice are debated and contested. This conference examines how such expectations of justice shaped political discourse and behaviour in the early and medieval caliphate. | 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
Symposium dealing with the question: Is "gentrification" the best concept with which to describe what is going on in Asian cities, or do we need other or additional frames to understand the Asian context at the neighborhood level? | read more
This festival, a collaboration of amongst others Leiden University and Gemeente Leiden, explores the future of humans with expositions, films, debates and readings. | read more
This conference by the Embedding Conquest Team focusses on relational ties that were expressed primarily through or as kinship, in three themes: dynastic rule, family ties and kinship outside the family. | read more
This conference explores the definition of graffiti and the socio-historical and practical circumstances in which marks and inscriptions were made in ancient and antique Egypt and Sudan. | read more