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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' 16 March 2023
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight ye...
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award 07 March 2023
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she ...
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How music shaped a Cabo Verdean community in Rotterdam 10 February 2023
No migrant community in the Netherlands wrote as many songs about the place they migrated to as the Cabo Verdean one. PhD candidate Seger Kersbergen s...
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds' 05 December 2022
We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration t...
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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia 25 November 2022
A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century 22 November 2022
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st centu...
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Americans go to the polls: 'The midterms are more than a popularity poll' 03 November 2022
On Tuesday 8 November, Americans will go to the polls for the so-called midterm elections. 'We tend to look at this election as if it were a poll on B...
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island] 26 October 2022
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers 18 October 2022
Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at ...
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films 11 October 2022
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten d...
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Antje Wessels will investigate the world of fragments with NWO grant 04 October 2022
Professor Antje Wessels has received an NWO Open Competition grant to research fragmentary texts.
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements? 04 October 2022
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a ba...
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Greek texts offer fascinating glimpse of multicultural Roman Empire 30 September 2022
Casper de Jonge, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, believes that Greek texts from the Roman Empire are more interesting than was first thoug...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022
Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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Sara Brandellero: ‘We need to protect the city from an excess of light’ 22 September 2022
On 25 September, lights throughout Leiden will be turned off for the Seeing Stars event. What makes the urban night so special? We asked university le...