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Astrid Van Weyenberg wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2022 12 September 2022
University lecturer Astrid Van Weyenberg has won the Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize. ‘Astrid is a lovely person who can teach well.'
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities' 08 September 2022
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is desi...
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ 28 July 2022
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins 04 July 2022
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lectur...
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration 27 June 2022
Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints an...
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‘Artists seek and research another dimension of science’ 27 June 2022
In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the ...
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Out now! LEAP # 2: (Mis)Reading Nature 23 June 2022
LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course....
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century s...
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Russian writer Maxim Osipov coming to Leiden University 17 June 2022
Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the...
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Three questions about the new podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur 02 June 2022
Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische lite...
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’ 17 May 2022
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how...
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’ 10 May 2022
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Du...
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Call for Papers for LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism' on 23 September 2022 25 April 2022
Medievalism is the area of academic study that investigates the reception and reconstruction of the medieval past since the Middle Ages came to an end.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference - Call for Papers 20 April 2022
This is a call for papers for the upcoming tenth issue of the Journal of the Lucas Graduate Conference (JLGC), intended to be published by the end of ...
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants 14 April 2022
Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Researc...