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Netflix hit a metaphor for South Korea: ‘You have to achieve’ 11 October 2021
South Korean smash hit Squid Game is on track to becoming the most successful Netflix production ever. The series is number one in over 90 countries. ...
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“Go Within” explores the saxophonist as a total-musician and performer 11 October 2021
“Go Within”, saxophonist and ACPA PhD Don-Paul Kahl's debut solo album features the techniques of saxophone playing without mouthpiece.
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling 07 October 2021
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show tha...
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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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Rubicon grant for four Leiden researchers 04 October 2021
Four promising young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant will enable th...
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Annual Lecture 2021 by Prof. Howard Louthan 30 September 2021
All are warmly invited to the 3rd Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture, organized by the Foundation for Austrian Studies and Special Chair for Centr...
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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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Call for Papers: Book Diplomacy conference 29 September 2021
On 28 and 29 April 2022 the conference ''Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' takes place at Leiden University. T...
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Lending an Ear to Students’ Life in the Pandemic 28 September 2021
At the end of a difficult year, students of ACPA’s Music Minor have put together “sonic postcards” to capture their experience of life under Covid res...
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery 27 September 2021
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in h...
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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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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document 13 September 2021
Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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‘Different languages of instruction could help African education move forward’ 09 September 2021
The high number of students that we are used to in the West would never have been possible if Latin were still the language of instruction in our univ...
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Three Times Aart Strootman 07 September 2021
In the next few days several compositions by Aart Strootman (guitarist, instrument builder, composer, teacher and ACPA PhD) will premiere at Festival ...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021
Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...