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Anna Scott named inaugural artist-in-residence at University of Surrey 22 March 2022
Anna Scott has been named as the inaugural artist-in-residence of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research at the University of Surrey in 2...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia 21 March 2022
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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The globalisation of language in popular music lyrics: A critical approach. 21 March 2022
On 7 March, Carlos Roos (lecturer, philosopher, researcher) gave a talk about popular music at Utrecht University, organized by the education committe...
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Large-format landscapes: why Northern-Netherlandish artists drew on extra-large paper outdoors 17 March 2022
In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Northern-Netherlandish artists drew outdoors to train their hands and eyes, and to record landscapes and nature. ...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers 17 March 2022
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction' 17 March 2022
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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Call for Panels and Papers: "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional and International Perspectives" 16 March 2022
The Seventh European Congress on World and Global History, entitled "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional, and International Pers...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other' 10 March 2022
During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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A quick call about the war in Ukraine: ‘Did Putin underestimate his opponent?’ 08 March 2022
The war in Ukraine has lasted almost two weeks now. What does Putin expect to achieve with his invasion and how big is the chance that the West will g...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science 07 March 2022
What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast 04 March 2022
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. I...
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New Inputs- research report by Richard Barrett 22 February 2022
With the final version of his research report entitled NEW INPUTS, Richard Barrett concludes the documentation of research carried out for the Lector...
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A podcast about the sound of silence 22 February 2022
Pianist and radio producer Guy Livingston has created a podcast series, inspired by the performances of ZINDERING, a five-day festival in the context ...
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Janice McNab on ‘Surrealism and the making of Mother’ 22 February 2022
At the conference Surrealism and Scotland on 23 and 24 March, Janice McNab will share the paper ‘Surrealism and the making of Mother’.
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Adjacent Sound - new release by Gabriel Paiuk 21 February 2022
'Adjacent Sound' is the new album by composer and ACPA PhD Gabriel Paiuk.