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• Social and emotional competence in children and adolescents who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) Research project

  How does having limited access to the social world affect Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) children’s emotional development? And in turn, how do impairments in emotional functioning affect social development and the development of psychopathology?

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography Research output

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Greek culture in the Roman world.

• Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth Research output

  Barbarism: from the 18th century to the present.

• A Finger in Every Pie: Transnational networks in the debates over British free trade, 1660-1730 Research project

  The role of transnational, non-institutional networks in the opening up of British transatlantic trade at the end of the 17th/beginning of the 18th century

• Cities of Roman Asia Minor Research project

  The main research objective is to map the cities of Roman Asia Minor in terms of location, size, urban amenities and juridical status, with the specific aim to understand the reasons how this urban settlement pattern arose.

• The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana News - 28 February 2020

  When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…

• Modified caffeine molecules help medical research move forward News - 8 December 2023

  Before researchers can develop targeted drugs, they need to know exactly how a disease works. Biochemist Bert Beerkens created molecules that allow them to find out. He used caffeine as the basis for new molecules that enable research into certain receptor proteins on cells.

• Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Scheduling Research output

  Multi-objective optimization is an effective technique for finding optimal solutions that balance several conflicting objectives. It has been applied in many fields of our world, because practical problems usually have more than one desired goal. For example, developing a new vehicle component might…

• Dangerous Cities: Mapping crime in Amsterdam and Leiden, 1850–1913 Research project

  To what extent did the street patterns in urban districts influence crime patterns?

• The Struggle Within: “Moral Crisis” on the Ottoman Homefront During the First World War Research output

  Cigdem Oguz defended her thesis on 13 June 2018

• What crime reporting can teach us about women’s history News - 23 April 2020

  How can you learn about women’s history if they are under-represented in historical sources? Look at news coverage of crime, says Clare Wilkinson, PhD candidate in gender and history. ‘Historical crime reporting offers a glimpse into forgotten groups.’ The doctoral defence will take place on 23 Apri…

• Alba, General and Servant to the Crown Research output

  This book on Alba is edited by Maurits Ebben, Margriet Lacy-Bruijn and Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier. Each of its fifteen chapters are dedicated to developing a new understanding of a sometimes misunderstood figure in European history.

• Eight professors receive double appointment simultaneously News - 16 November 2022

  Delft, Nov. 15th, 2022 – Today, eight professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta professors’ at Leiden University, LUMC, TU Delft, Erasmus University and/or Erasmus MC. With an appointment of two or more of these five academic institutions, they combine technology and healthcare in…

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  Jan-Bart Gewald Professor History of Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Jiyan Qiao University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia Research output

  A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.

• Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955) Event - 7 April 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar

• Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History News - 26 June 2020

  The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Classics and Ancient History.

• Ideology and Christianity in Japan Research output

  Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology.

• Book recommendation from ... Meike de Goede

  Every month a member of the Institute for History tells about a book that inspired him or her. Afterwards, the pen is passed on to another colleague. This month dr. Meike de Goede tells about the book 'Between Tides' by Valentin Mudimbe. The novel, little known beyond the circles of Africanists and…

• The Sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation Research output

  This dissertation gives an ethnographic account of Kurdish dengbêj narrative from a theorethical perspective.

• Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies Research output

  A Biography of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822–1914)

• Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies Research output

  This series of publications brings together new material on wellconsidered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.

• Newly appointed Art History professor, Minna Valjakka: 'Art teaches us more than you may think' News - 2 February 2022

  On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as 'extremely topical' because of the discussions about the decolonisation of the arts: 'Art teaches us not just about art, but also about contemporary…

• The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 Research output

  How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day…

• A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward Event - 26 June 2024

  Exhibition, Photo exibition

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Claire Weeda Director of Education / University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Leonor Alvarez Francés PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Patrick Gouw Subject Librarian

  Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden

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  Kai Hebel Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Willem Heiser Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Michel Doortmont Researcher / Guest

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Bastian Still Guest

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  Paul Hoftijzer Professor emeritus History of the book

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Willem Zwalve Professor emeritus Legal History

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Stefano Bellucci University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Simon Willmetts Associate professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Thomas Maguire Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Kate Brackney Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cisca Hoogendijk Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maria Zisimopoulou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Leonor Faber-Jonker PhD candidate / self funded

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Aad van Mastrigt PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Laurens van Apeldoorn Assistent Professor

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) Research output

  Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…

• The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism Research output

  This book provides an overview of critical scholarly reflections on the history of Dutch slavery and colonization, as well as how this translates into critical cultural practices.

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  S. Valdez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Social World of Babylonian Priests Research project

  This thesis, conducted in the framework of ERC Starting grant project BABYLON (PI: Caroline Waerzeggers), presents an investigation into Babylonian society, focusing on the city of Borsippa during Neo-Babylonian and early Persian rule (c. 620-484 BCE).

• documenting squatting in Leiden as a cross-over project between Public History and Academic Research Research project

  This project sets out to map, document and analyze instances of squatting in Leiden from 1970 to 1990, in order to set up an online Digital Archive of Squatting in Leiden. This archive will function as an online resource for academic research, as well as a starting point for public activities such as…