Prof. dr. Lisa Cheng has been nominated for the Regional Chair at the University of Nantes (France).

How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban netw...

Cátia Antunes received the prestigious ERC Grant for her Research Project "Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of F...

Marian Klamer's LAISEANG project has been awarded a research grant by CLARIN.

Dr Cátia Antunes, lecturer in economic and social history, Leiden University Institute for History, and Dr Stijn Bussels, who will come to Leiden in 2...

During the next three years, 6 promising researchers from the Faculty of Humanities who have just been awarded their PhDs will be able to further deve...

Professor Johan Rooryck will be examining cognition and core knowledge systems and how possession is expressed in different languages. Rooryck and fel...

Nadine Chahine, designer of Arabic typefaces and external PhD candidate at Leiden University, has been named in Fast Company's 2012 ranking as one of ...

Four Leiden researchers will be gaining experience at prominent international research research institutes funded by a Rubicon subsidy from NWO. One i...

Peter Jurgec has been awarded a Rubicon grant to do research at LUCL. His project is entitled The unique sounds of Slovenian. His project aims to prov...

LUCL congratulates Isabelle van de Calseyde with winning the LSr Teaching Prize!

LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.

Four of Leiden's top researchers have been awarded substantial grants by the European Research Council.

Prof. Willem Adelaar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to do research on Central and Southern American Indian languages.

David Shakouri has been awarded a PhD-position by NWO for the PhDs in the Humanities Programme.