De Utrechtse Universiteitsbibliotheek afdeling Bijzondere Collecties en het NWO-project Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages hebben ruimte voor vier stagiairs. Je gaat stagelopen bij de UBU Bijzondere collecties en bij het NWO-onderzoeksproject Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages.…

On December 3, Erik Kwakkel (University of British Columbia) will give a lecture in the University Library Leiden, titled “Writing on the Wall: Medieval Advertisement Sheets in Perspective.” Professional scribes in the Middle Ages produced advertisement sheets with which they presented themselves to…

Globaliseren is geglobaliseerd worden en daarbij speelt materiële cultuur een cruciale rol. Dat is de eigentijdse les van Miguel John Versluys, de nieuwe hoogleraar Klassieke en Mediterrane Archeologie. Hij leert ons die aan de hand van onderzoek naar het ontstaan en de groei van het Romeinse rijk,…

Lezing, Studium Generale

De nieuwe Middle Eastern Library (MEL) zal de Midden-Oosterse collecties van de UBL en de collecties van de bibliotheek van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO), die sinds 1 januari 2018 deel is van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheken, samenbrengen.

Hoogleraar Peter Bisschop ontvangt een ERC Advanced-beurs. Hij gaat het bedrag van ongeveer 2,5 miljoen euro besteden aan onderzoek naar purana’s: geschriften in het Sanskriet van soms meer dan vijftienhonderd jaar oud.

Lezing, Studium Generale

Lezing, Studium Generale

Lezing, Studium Generale

The Turin Humanities Programme of Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura has launched a call for applications for 4 post-doctoral fellowships focused on the topic: “Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650”. Deadline for submission: February 15, 2022.

Princeton University has announced that planning for its annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference is underway. The conference will be held on March 6, 2021 (via Zoom) with the following theme: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.”

The Index of Middle English Prose, of which twenty-three volumes have been published since 1984, now has an online presence at imep.lib.cam.ac.uk. Thanks to the kind co-operation of Cambridge University Library and of the publishers, Boydell & Brewer, the indexes to all the volumes are now available…

In her new book, Dr Claire Weeda, cultural historian at Leiden University, investigates how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages (900-1250).

On 25 and 26 November 2021 the 18th International Meeting of the Middle Ages in Nájera will take place online. It is devoted to: "The Use of Social Space in the Late Medieval European Town". For more information, please consult: www.neim.unican.es.

Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist invite essays that examine any aspect of race and religion in medieval culture and society for a special issue on race and religion in the Middle Ages. Deadline for submission: 1 February 2021.

The University of Jena offers twelve PhD positions within the framework of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2792 ‘Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Deadline: 17 July 2022.

On 27-29 October 2021, the ERC Project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages, Radboud University Nijmegen) will organize the International Workshop On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies. Deadline for submission: 10 May 2021.

LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2022-23. Deadline: 10 June 2022. For more information: lectio@kuleuven.be.

LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2023-2024. Deadline for submissions: May 31.

The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ is hosting a series of e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The program is now available online.

The programme of the International Conference “City, Citizen & Citizenship. New Perspectives on the Middle Ages, AD 400-1600”, to be held on a digital platform on 16-18 June, 2021, is now available.

De afgelopen tien jaar is ‘crisis’ de natuurlijke toestand van Europa geworden. De bankencrisis ging via de Eurocrisis naadloos over in de huidige vluchtelingencrisis. Waar men vroeger dacht dat Europese samenwerking automatisch steeds verder zou gaan (‘even closer union’), zetten mensen nu vaker vraagtekens…

Onze samenwerkingsovereenkomsten bieden zowel studenten als medewerkers de kans om een periode in het buitenland te verblijven en zo hun horizon te verbreden. Ook fungeren de overeenkomsten regelmatig als basis voor onderzoeksprojecten of andere samenwerkingsvormen.

The International Reynard Society studies the role of animals in the European literature of the Middle Ages and its afterlife. It focuses especially on beast epics, fables, and fabliaux. The 24th international colloquium of the Society – Of Foxes and Fish: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Animal…

The XIIth Annual Conference of LECTIO in 2023 will examine the foundation and first centuries of the University of Louvain as a unique crossroads of the transfer of texts, ideas, and images between Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance. It serves as a stepping stone for the celebrations of 600 years…

Student organisation Teiresias organizes a lecture series on how to turn your master’s thesis into a publishable paper. In three days, experts from the world of academics and publishing will be presenting their advice on how to write your first publication. The aim is to cater specifically to the niche…

This one-day conference, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), invites you to share your research ideas and results in practices of comparative medievalism in arts and culture. We therefore invite contributions of papers that analyse cultural representations of the…

The "Cognitive Turn" and the Middle Ages - There is an increasing interest in the cognitive sciences and how knowledge from this area influences literary studies, history, art history, and studies in material culture. This meeting seeks to discuss the possibilities, but also the limitations of incorporating…

The chair of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen is organizing a new lecture series. In the RAM-lectures, a great variety of scholars in the fields of Antiquity and the Middle Ages will discuss their research. Students, PhD’s and staff are most welcome to attend. The lectures…

On 17-20 October 2023, the ERC-funded project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages), based at Radboud University Nijmegen, will organise an international conference on the medieval reception and transmission of patristic sermons and the collections in which they are compiled. The conference…

A conversation about expanding the disciplinary boundaries of the study and teaching of pre-modern English literature, on the occasion of the publication of Sjoerd Levelt’s The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation. With: Shamma Boyarin (University of Victoria), Shazia Jagot (University of York),…

The conference cycle Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words, co-organised by the IRHT (CNRS) and Institute of Polish Language (PAS) aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. This year's edition focuses on the concepts of FEAST, CELEBRATION…

Het Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) organiseerde van 6 tot april een conferentie over uitdaging rond klimaatverandering.

De onlangs afgestudeerde biologiestudente Julia López Delgado is één van de winnaars van de Hollandsche Maatschappij Prijzen voor Jong Talent 2019. Ze ontving haar prijs tijdens een feestelijke ceremonie op 25 november in Haarlem.

Op deze pagina vindt u het overzicht van zowel de aankomende als de afgeronde alumniwebinars/masterclasses van de Universiteit Leiden. Bij elk afgerond webinar/masterclass vindt u de link naar de opname.

Een overzicht van tentoonstellingscatalogi en monografieën rond de Leidse Midden-Oosten collecties.

This Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) aims to explore how early modern individuals and groups branded themselves through their heraldic presentation on contemporary social media and materials. Although this call for papers focuses on the period 1500-1800,…

With Ad Putter, Sjoerd Levelt and Anne-Louise Avery. Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes…

Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8 FTE) to be part of the research team of the ERC-funded project "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The Dissemination, Manipulation, and Interpretation of Late-Antique Sermons in…

ReMA and PhD students attached to the Research School for Medieval Studies can obtain 1 ECTS by actively attending the international conference "City, Citizen & Citizenship. New Perspectives on the Middle Ages, AD 400-1600" (16-18 June 2021). To this end, they will have to submit a written reflection…

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, with additional support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH), organizes a virtual conference on Syriac Iconography. This conference gathers diverse scholars from across the…

The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ invites proposals for informal papers for a series of six e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The e-workshops will take place in April…

Het VICI onderzoeksproject Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, onder leiding van Els Rose (Universiteit Utrecht), heeft een nieuw boek uitgebracht: Els Rose, Robert Flierman en Merel de Bruin-van de Beek, red., City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500. A Comparative Approach (Londen: Palgrave-Macmillan,…

Ruim 600 handschriften en vroege drukken maakte de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) onlangs digitaal beschikbaar via het platform Europeana, als onderdeel van het project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA). Zeven Europese erfgoedinstellingen werkten twee jaar samen om 30.000 gedigitaliseerde…

East African Community Law is het eerste, geheel open-access, tekstboek over het recht van de Oost-Afrikaanse Gemeenschap (de EAC). Bovendien biedt het boek een unieke systematische vergelijking met het EU recht en de inzichten die Europa kan leveren over het proces van regionale integratie. Geschreven…

Het Leiden Centre for East African Law (LEAC) heeft een subsidie van €25.000 ontvangen van de EU delegatie bij de East African Community (EAC) en de EAC Commissie.

Het expertisecentrum Modern East Asia Research Centre krijgt de beschikking over een fonds van ongeveer 4 miljoen euro, een legaat dat wordt beheerd door het Leids Universiteits Fonds. Hiertoe is op 4 juli een overeenkomst getekend.

Lamberto Zannier, Secretaris Generaal van de Organisatie voor Veiligheid en Samenwerking in Europa (OVSE), gaf een lezing met de titel: ‘The OSCE, a bridge between East and West and a platform for dialogue on European security’.

Van 25 tot/met 31 oktober 2017 was professor Simone van der Hof met een delegatie van Leiden Law School, waaronder onze decaan professor Joanne van der Leun, op werkbezoek in China.