Concerned with our ethical, intellectual, creative responsibilities with and within the world, the students of the LUC take our academic focus of Global Challenges into that world, and open a space of inquiry, discussion, dialogue, and inspiration, with the student journal, Darya.

Based in Leiden University College, the Hague, Darya is a student journal tackling the larger concerns of Global Challenges, Peace, Justice, Sustainability, and current affairs (special topic), which begin with our academic approaches to the manifold divisions, complications, specificities of these issues, and go on to look out at the world, to see how these Global Challenges engage us as we stand in the world, in the many spaces and intersections we inhabit, traverse and create.

Darya is published bi-annually, in September and February, with print issues to be distributed in the Hague, as well as an online presence. Our student editors also welcome frank and continuing dialogue on current issues, for the questions that connect our classrooms, where we stand (and move about) in the world, to the world, and ask for responses and discussion to Global Challenges on our Darya blog. We hope that by opening up a forum for frank dialogue, we can establish a serious and safe place for the exchange of ideas and experiences, and bring forth changes for the better.

The editors of Darya the undergraduate journal for global challenges are looking for people to fulfill the following positions:

• Editor for the Arts section: you will be responsible for the entire arts part of the journal, you’ll make sure we get enough articles/poems/art for this section and you will edit it to make sure it is appropriate for publication.
• Communications board member: you will be responsible for making sure that Darya is known among students all over the world and you will be updating our social media.
• Technical board member: you will be responsble for the updating and improving of the website. The website is based on CSS, HTML and most of it can be edited through PSP.
• Graphical artist: you will be responsible for the lay-out of the journal.

If you are interested in one of these four positions please send us an e-mail with you motivation at info@darya-journal.org before the 16th of October.

We are looking for art and creative writing for the Arts section of Darya.
Anything ranging from fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, to photography and photo essays is allowed. The at however should somehow relate to our topics of Peace, Justice, Sustainability or the Special Theme (Global Disaster for this issue).
Requirements for written pieces can be found under Guidelines.
If you feel your art meets this description make sure to send it to us before the 7th of November at info@darya-journal.org. Any questions? Don’t hesitate to contact us.