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Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts 16 February 2016The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the...
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Vacancy Full Professorship in Classical Archaeology (Byvanck Professor) 09 February 2016
The Faculties of Archaeology and Humanities at Leiden University invite applications for a part time Full Professorship in Classical Archaeology. Appo...
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NWO reports on VIDI project Erik Kwakkel 04 February 2016
In his VIDI project “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance” (2010-2015) Erik Kwakkel and his team studied...
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Fourth issue JLGC published 02 February 2016
On 1 February 2016 the fourth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression'...
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Last Week’s Hype: On the Blackstar album and death of David Bowie 22 January 2016Can David Bowie’s death be seen as a carefully staged hype, just one last version of the musician’s ever-surprising public persona? Cultural Studies r...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...
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Digitally leafing through invisible books 14 December 2015Researchers from Leiden and Delft have found a way to look inside early-modern bookbindings. An x-ray technique has allowed them to search for remains...
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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful' 10 December 2015The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology...
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Secrets of 17th-century letters finally laid bare 10 November 2015
The archive of a 17th-century postmaster has been discovered in the Museum for Communication in The Hague. Using new scanning techniques, the internat...
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Introducing Renske Janssen 05 November 2015
Renske Janssen started her PhD project at LUCAS and LUIH in October 2015. Her project is part of the research field ‘History and Culture of Ancient Ju...
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The imagination as gaoler and as escape 30 October 2015
Fiction is more effective than autobiographical non-fiction when it comes to conveying the sensation of enforced solitary confinement. That is the con...
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen Identifies Manuscript Leaf in Bodleian Godwin Collection 22 October 2015Recently, Evert Jan van Leeuwen was able to identify an “unknown” manuscript leaf in the William Godwin Papers of the Abinger Collection at the Bodlei...
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Launch of the European Network of Brazilianists – REBRAC 30 September 2015
Sara Brandellero, Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies (LUCAS), is a founding member of the newly launched European Network of Brazilianists worki...
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Thijs Porck participates in the SELIM conference in Granada, Spain 29 September 2015
From 17 to 19 September, the University of Granada organized the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language an...
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Espionage Techniques of Seventeenth-Century Women 23 September 2015Spying in the seventeenth century was a man’s job. That had been the prevailing impression, until the Veni research by Nadine Akkerman from Leiden Uni...