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From vlogging to organising seminars: students of Italian put their skills into practice 18 October 2021
Do you gain enough practical experience in an academic language and culture study programme? Certainly, proved the bachelor students of Italian this s...
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society 14 October 2021
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan v...
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes 05 October 2021
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This ...
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Ylva Klaassen reappointed Director of Teaching and Learning at LUCAS: ‘We will continue building together’ 01 October 2021
Ylva Klaassen has been reappointed for three years as Director of Teaching and Learning of LUCAS. Her second term begins on 1 October, which she will ...
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish? 30 September 2021
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in ...
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Bombastic publications encouraged millions of Dutch people to emigrate 20 September 2021
After the Second World War almost three million people emigrated from the Netherlands to countries such as Canada and Australia. The government inform...
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections 30 July 2021
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female coll...
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing 28 June 2021
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After ...
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant 21 June 2021
Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’ 18 June 2021
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep poppin...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 2021 16 June 2021
The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre 07 June 2021
Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 1...
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Grant for research on politics and play: ‘In both cases, a world is created’ 07 June 2021
How do politics and play relate to each other? Six Leiden academics hope to find an answer to that question over the coming years. They have received ...
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden 28 May 2021
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre ...
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden 18 May 2021
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell in...