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Rescore of The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky for chamber orchestra 24 January 2023ACPA PhD Michael Drapkin has been commissioned by The Venice Symphony (Florida) to rescore The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky for chamber orchestra.
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war 23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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Falling bombs and looting soldiers: how to protect Ukraine’s cultural heritage? 23 January 2023The war in Ukraine is leading not only to human suffering. Ukraine's cultural heritage is also experiencing the consequences of the war: museums are b...
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What is there to do at Leiden University in 2023? Six events to look forward to 20 January 2023From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts all manner of events every year. To make sure these events ge...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work out my ideas' 20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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OPZIJ-editor-in-chief Marleen Hogendoorn: ‘I was already a budding feminist at the age of eleven' 19 January 2023Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ. How does she...
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Publication - inaugural lecture by ACPA alumnus Falk Hübner 18 January 2023At the start of the new year, Falk Hübner's (DocARTES/ ACPA alumnus and now professor/lector of Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Fine and Perfo...
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Publication - Overtone Singing by ACPA alumnus Mark van Tongeren 18 January 2023Overtone Singing, written by ACPA alumnus Mark van Tongeren, deals with the hidden harmonies of the human voice.
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Students remain ‘very satisfied’ with their degree programme in 2022 18 January 2023Almost 3,000 students from the Faculty of Humanities completed the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2022. With a response rate of 38%, t...
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European grant to research Tibetan collection: 'Tibetans' literary output was and is huge' 17 January 2023As a student, university lecturer Berthe Jansen fell under the spell of the Van Manen collection: a collection full of Tibetan writings and objects. A...
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Final project of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (minor CSSC) 17 January 2023On 14 December 2022, students of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (as part of the Creative Strategies for a Society in Ch...
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Russians continue to use age-old military concepts 17 January 2023Russian military concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries still exist and have not lost their strategic relevance. The Russians us...
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association 16 January 2023Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the Americ...
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective 13 January 2023From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in ...
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Faculty of Humanities ushers in the new year: 'Build in some low-pressure time' 13 January 2023In a world beset with war, climate problems and skyrocketing energy prices, it is good to have some 'slack time' now and then. That was Dean Mark Rutg...