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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog 22 November 2021
The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Insp...
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 11 November 2021
Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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Students create creative language lessons for primary and secondary education: ‘Not enough attention paid to languages’ 08 November 2021
The earlier you introduce children to a language, the sooner they can be captivated by it and see that there is more than just Dutch and English. That...
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction 27 October 2021
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...
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From vlogging to organising seminars: students of Italian put their skills into practice 18 October 2021
Do you gain enough practical experience in an academic language and culture study programme? Certainly, proved the bachelor students of Italian this s...
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society 14 October 2021
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan v...
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes 05 October 2021
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This ...
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Ylva Klaassen reappointed Director of Teaching and Learning at LUCAS: ‘We will continue building together’ 01 October 2021
Ylva Klaassen has been reappointed for three years as Director of Teaching and Learning of LUCAS. Her second term begins on 1 October, which she will ...
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish? 30 September 2021
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in ...
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Bombastic publications encouraged millions of Dutch people to emigrate 20 September 2021
After the Second World War almost three million people emigrated from the Netherlands to countries such as Canada and Australia. The government inform...
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections 30 July 2021
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female coll...
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing 28 June 2021
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After ...
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant 21 June 2021
Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’ 18 June 2021
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep poppin...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 2021 16 June 2021
The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...