The IGTM workshop "Rules, Regulations, and Regimes in Medieval Religion" (21 June 2023) for graduate students and junior scholars, in which early career scholars have the opportunity to discuss their research with peers and senior referents in an informal setting, takes the 800th anniversary of the…

A freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650) has been published by the Viabundus project.

The University of Oslo offers three postdoctoral positions in early medieval studies. Deadline: 9 November 2022.

De auteurs zoeken en beoordelen systematisch relevante definities van Security by Design (SbD) in vergelijking met Privacy by Design (PbD).

Een nieuwe database maakt eeuwenoude kronieken digitaal doorzoekbaar. Hoogleraar Judith Pollmann vertelt er meer over in diverse dagbladen.

Voor het project en fotoboek Stuk: De allure van het kapotte boek, ontvangt Erik Kwakkel een KNAW Jonge Akademie-projectbeurs.

Kunsthistorica Sanne Frequin is geïntroduceerd als “friend of the show” bij het wetenschapsprogramma Focus in de Nacht op NPO Radio 1. Hier zal ze regelmatig aansluiten om te spreken over haar onderzoek en ontwikkelingen in haar vakgebied. In deze uitzending vertelt Frequin onder andere over haar fascinatie…

Hoe zorgen vroegmoderne staten voor effectief bestuur in moeilijke omstandigheden? In EMStaD JEMEN staat een land centraal dat vanwege zijn geografische, religieuze en sociale complexiteit tegenwoordig wordt beschouwd als een failed state: Jemen.

The Medieval Academy of America (MAA) is excited to announce the launch of a new Summer Research Program for early PhD or early PhD-track students. The 2022 Summer Research Program will convene over Zoom, over the course of six weeks in July and August. The Summer Research Program will culminate with…

Onderzoekers aangesloten bij het Leiden Leadership Centre zijn actieve leden van het PUPOL netwerk. PUPOL is een internationaal academisch netwerk voor publiek en politiek leiderschap. Dit netwerk stimuleert de uitwisseling van ideeën en bevordert gezamenlijk onderzoek tussen wetenschappers gericht…

The Israeli Forum of Early Medieval Studies at The Hebrew University of Jeruzalem invites you to a lecture by Ian Wood. This lecture is entitled "Beyond the Transformation of the Roman West" and will be held on Thursday, July 1st, at 6.30 pm - 8 pm IDT.

On the 21st and 22nd of June, the students of the Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Groningen organise an online conference on the topic of otherness.

The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Premodern Otherness: Encounters with and Expressions of the Other in Classical Antiquity, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, Autumn 2022. Deadline: 1 February 2022.

The catalogue includes some of the most famous early medieval manuscripts, decorated with luxury materials and exceptionally beautiful script, ornament and illustrations.

PhD Position in ERC-funded Project on Historical Future Expectations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (University of Antwerp) (deadline for submission: 26 April 2020).

The conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond" will take place on November 14 and November 15 2024 in Antwerp and online.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

De islamitische traditie kent vanaf het allereerste begin een mondelinge overdracht. Pas tweehonderd jaar later schreven de moslims over de geschiedenis van de islam, op steen of andere harde materialen. Arabische epigrafie (opschriftkunde) blijkt een essentieel hulpmiddel bij historisch stamboomonderzoek.…

De Leidse geschiedenisstudenten Claudia Fris en Patrick Naaktgeboren hebben de BA en MA scriptieprijzen van Holland Historisch Tijdschrift gewonnen.

The Department of Historical Studies at Central European University (Vienna, Austria) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the 2025/2026 academic year. The deadline is February 1, 2025.

De vastgeketende mensen in de grot, de wagenmenner van de ziel, de bolletjesmensen van Aristophanes, de Nobele Leugen, het verzonken Atlantis…

Hoe is het om te werken bij de Universiteit Leiden en hoe zijn wij als werkgever? Diverse medewerkers delen graag hun ervaringen. Bekijk de video’s.

‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ is a European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that will support 13 PhD researchers undertaking projects on late medieval and early modern books. These PhD researchers will be spread across the following institutions: University of Galway (3 positions),…

On Thursday, 30 September 2021 (14.00-17.00), Dr Linda Briggs, Staff Tutor in History at The Open University (UK) will organize a graduate workshop on interpreting royal entries in their European, national and local contexts at Utrecht University. This workshop is especially useful for research master…

This postponed international workshop will now be held on a digital platform. It seeks to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to work on the interrelated aspects of ancient and early medieval walls in the Mediterranean and northwestern Europe throughout the first…

The Kent University Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies organizes its annual MEMS-Festival. The festival is held in Canterbury on June 14 and 15. It offers both postgraduate and final year undergraduate students the chance to present their research in a professional academic environment to…

A two-day workshop will be organized in Tilburg in December 2023, which has the goal to bring together scholars working on urban history, legal history and economic history of the later medieval and early modern period. The workshop focuses on the sovereignty of cities of trade. Deadline for abstracts:…

Spatial humanities are developing fast at the moment. This international expert meeting intends to bring together specialists from different disciplines in order to discuss possibilities, challenges, and next steps for spatial humanities that are concerned with late-medieval and early modern urban history…

In de abdij van Rolduc te Limburg zijn tientallen bladen uit middeleeuwse boeken opgedoken. Van maandag 26 tot en met woensdag 28 maart zullen vijftien studenten en vier docenten van de opleiding Book and Digital Media Studies de boeken identificeren en beschrijven.

Jerem van Duijl is sinds november 2014 als promovendus werkzaam bij het Instituut voor Geschiedenis. Zijn onderzoek gaat over de bezitsgeschiedenis van het Duitse Huis in Utrecht in de middeleeuwen

On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.

What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

The aims of the project are to: further clarify 'inhibition by safety'; explore and describe all possible sagety factors, with a special focus on the primary human safety source: social connectedness; reviewing prolonged stress responses without stressors.

The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

The main aim of my Ph.D. thesis is to further explore the value of using early developing zebrafish larvae (up to 5 dpf) as a model to study anxiety-like behaviour and their pharmacological modulation with drugs.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.

Het Instituut voor Strafrecht & Criminologie houdt zich bezig met onderzoek en onderwijs op respectievelijk het gebied van het straf(proces)recht en de criminologie.

In this thesis new methodologies are developed for the detection and systematic study of radio sources in the early universe. This allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, the activity of supermassive black holes, and the final phase transition of our universe:…

This Spring School will pay attention to a wide range of performances in history, from political gatherings, religious rituals, and courtroom proceedings to theatre, concerts, and dance. It combines a focus on the medieval and early modern period with an interdisciplinary perspective, attending to the…

This workshop aims at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late antique and early medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions to the Greek field). Young scholars in particular are encouraged to present case-studies and share the editorial problems…