News and eventsAround thirty Turkish secondary school pupils, and their teachers, from the Ibrahim Firtina High School in Ankara were welcomed by BA International Studies-staff for a Dutch lunch at Leiden University in The Hague.
Meet our lecturers in these short interviews and learn more about their research and which course(s) they will be teaching in BA International Studies. Six interviews in total from March and May 2012 are now available.
On Friday March 9th, around 50 students who will start BA International Studies in September 2012 met for the first time during a short and informal meeting, called the Preunion. All Dutch and international students who are already accepted and registered to start the study programme this September were invited.
When travelling, you probably like to be less of a tourist and more of an informed observer. We compiled a list of English-language radio stations so you can stay up to date on news and events during your travels abroad.
Are you interested in the study programme that BA International Studies has to offer? Then find out more about what it is like to be a part of our international classroom at our Open Day.
Last week BA International Studies closed it first own agreement with a foreign university. Leiden University as a whole already has numerous exchange agreements with partner universities worldwide. International Studies is planning on closing its own close agreements for student and lecturer exchange in all nine regions.
On Saturday November 19th you have the opportunity to hear more about our study programme and international classroom. In the afternoon, you can visit a presentation on BA International Studies and visit a first year class 'Configuring the World' by professor Richard Griffiths.
Sunny Klassen and Leona Rus, two prospective students from Germany, visited The Hague on invitation of prof. Richard Griffiths, director of BA International Studies. You can read their report on The Hague and meeting international students at Leiden University.
Leiden University was present on the busy annual College Night at the International School of Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the Council of International Schools (CIS).
Are you interested in starting BA International Studies next year? At Leiden University’s Study Festival on Saturday October 22nd you can join us at the study market and visit a presentation about our study programme.
On September 20th a group of international relations officers from seven Argentine universities visited Leiden. Their visit to Leiden’s Faculty of Humanities was part of a short tour through northern-Europe.
In June and July 2011 Willem B. Drees, philosopher of religion and vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University, taught a course on ‘Religion and Science in an Imperfect World’, at the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies of Gadjah Mada University, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Leiden University has climbed five places in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’. Leiden is now ranked 65th in the world.
A strong attraction to the range and diversity of European cultures, such as museums, cathedrals, music and films. An interest in the European Union as a model for regional integration. And third, the wish to learn more about Europe as an important partner to Thailand in trade and aid. These are the main three motivations for Thai students to want to study in Europe.
The 2011 QS World University Rankings for Arts & Humanities place Leiden University's Humanities Faculty among the best in the world and at the top in continental Europe.
On 13-17 April 2011, on behalf of the BA International Studies, Professor Griffiths attended the Administrators Conference of the European Council for International Schools (ECIS) in Istanbul. "This is the beginning of what will become a continuing organic relationship.”
On 18 February 2011, Professor Richard Griffiths launched the new BA in International studies, which will start September 2012, at a conference of European Specialists meeting at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.