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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...
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NWO grant for four humanities projects 18 May 2021
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...
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Leiden students give commentary on games live on Twitch 17 May 2021
Three Leiden students will be sharing their knowledge of history while playing video games. The livestreams are part of the ‘Streaming the Past’ proj...
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums are very innovative’ 04 May 2021
The plan was to research the years surrounding the creation of the signature H.P. Berlage building of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, but due to the lockdow...
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Casper de Jonge: 'By broadening the canon we keep antiquity modern' 29 April 2021
On 1 May, Casper de Jonge will be appointed Professor of Greek Language and Literature. ‘Greek literature did not come from Athens alone: authors from...
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Royal honour for Korrie Korevaart 26 April 2021
Korrie Korevaart, a former director and lecturer in Dutch language and culture at Leiden University, has been made a member of the Order of Orange-Nas...
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Report LUCAS Conference Bodies Matter 15-16 April 2021 20 April 2021
Over two days in the middle of April the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society hosted the virtual Bodies Matter conference. Almost two year...
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Leiden Graduate Journal: the first step to a career in academics 16 April 2021
Publishing an article as early as during your studies. Master's students of Nanne Timmer and Astrid Weyenberg are doing it. In the new course 'Leiden ...
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Leiden PhD candidate new face on ‘Faces of Science’ blog site 30 March 2021
External PhD candidate Liselore Tissen (Leiden University/Delft University of Technology) has been blogging on the Faces of Science website since Marc...
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The Salm story: the forgotten architects of the Netherlands 24 March 2021
Music venue Paradiso, the Keizersgracht Church and the Artis Zoo’s aquarium: these buildings all owe their design to architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Sa...
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Nadine Akkerman unearths treasonous painting of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, in research for new book 23 March 2021
In the research for her upcoming book, Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts, author and academic Nadine Akkerman stumbled upon a little-known portrait of...
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Computational tools reveal secrets of 17th-century sealed letter 25 February 2021
In a world first, an international team of researchers has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe – without breaking its seal or damaging it ...
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NICA is moving to Leiden 21 January 2021
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amster...
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Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 12 January 2021
Thijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal H...
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution' 08 January 2021
A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Wash...