News
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Two Vacancies for PhD at LUCAS01 April 2015
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is looking for two PhD's, for a research programme funded by the Netherlands Organisation for...
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury31 March 2015
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LU...
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‘Studying English gave me a fertile humus layer of world literature’31 March 2015
Author Gustaaf Peek, who has been nominated for the Libris Literature Award, studied English Language and Literature in Leiden. ‘I completely submerse...
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Classical Antiquity once again a hot topic17 March 2015
The theme for this year’s Week of the Classics (19 to 27 March) is war in Classical Antiquity. Leiden Classics scholars are organising various activit...
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Odile Bodde at King’s College London03 March 2015
Odile Bodde tells about her stay in London at King's College...
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Introducing Lucien van Beek03 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 published01 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 Fishes28 January 2015The 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’ Academy28 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 Tutorial15 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 Groos16 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 Hague13 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 later05 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 religions14 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 News07 October 2014
Interview for National Public Radio sparks media frenzy.