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Introducing Lucien van Beek 03 March 2015
Lucien van Beek studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, focusing on Ancient Greek. As of February 2015, Van Beek will be p...
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Third issue JLGC published 01 February 2015
On 1 February 2015 the third issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Absence, Anxiety, and Aesthetics', was published.
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Start project A New History of Fishes 28 January 2015
The NWO just announced the results of the Vrije Competitie proposals. Paul Smith, professor at the French department is, as a member of LUCAS, one of ...
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Helen Westgeest Teaching Fellow at the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy 28 January 2015
In October 2014, Leiden University established the ‘Leiden University Teachers’ Academy’. Helen Westgeest, who lectures in the BA and MA Art History a...
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Photo Collection Research Tutorial 15 January 2015
Maartje van den Heuvel, researcher and curator of photography at Leiden University, will be giving a tutorial next semester to master students of Film...
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PhD research Marije Groos 16 December 2014
Marije Groos was a PhD researcher at the LUCAS. She completed her thesis on socio-political engagement in Dutch literary periodicals of the fifties. H...
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Rival women at the Court of The Hague 13 November 2014
Dr Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in Early Modern Literature and postdoctoral researcher in Leiden, has written a new book to accompany the exhibition on E...
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The fall of the Berlin wall - 25 years later 05 November 2014
Anthonya Visser, Professor of German Language and Literature, was a PhD candidate in East Berlin just before the fall of the wall. The 'Wende' became ...
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions 14 October 2014
Markus Altena Davidsen’s PhD dissertation is the first major study of Tolkien Religion. In it, he analyses the religion that is based on the stories b...
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Medieval Pen Trials In the News 07 October 2014
Interview for National Public Radio sparks media frenzy.
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New Issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies 09 September 2014
In September, the eighth issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies will be online, dealing with sounds and/from outer space.
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‘Visual art has been a form of communication since its inception’ 01 September 2014
Visual art played an important role in the development of cooperative human behaviour. This is the finding of Larissa Mendoza Straffon, a PhD can...
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Nadine Akkerman Visiting Fellow at University of Birmingham 18 June 2014
Dr. Nadine Akkerman, working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham fro...
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Adriaan van der Weel receives COST network subsidy 16 May 2014
Together with three other scholars Adriaan van der Weel successfully applied for a COST research network subsidy.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale 07 May 2014
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University ...