News
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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 ...
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Daniela Merolla qualified with ‘Habilitation’ 06 March 2014
The "Habilitation"(HDR) is the highest qualification that a researcher can achieve in France and qualifies the researcher to supervise doctoral candid...
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Six students follow the Silk Route for Amsterdam's Hermitage 03 March 2014
Six students of archaeology, history and art history are to follow the Silk Route in Central Asia, looking for evidence from ancient history for the e...
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View from abroad… a sabbatical in Denmark 17 February 2014
Leiden art historian Juliette Roding spent her sabbatical in Denmark, researching a 17th century court artist. She not only learned more about the art...
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Second issue JLGC published 01 February 2014
On 1 February 2014 the second issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Ritual, Representation and Remembrance', was publi...
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Caroline van Eck wins Descartes-Huygens Prize 08 January 2014
Caroline van Eck has been awarded the Descartes-Huygens Prize. She will receive the award in March 2014. The prize includes a period as a guest resear...
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Bettina Reitz wins the Ted Meijer Prize 03 December 2013
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department has won Ted Meijer Prize of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
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Two new publications on Art and Living Presence 11 November 2013
The studies of two researchers previously working within the VICI-project ‘Art, Agency and Living Presence’ are now published by Leiden University Pre...
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Bettina Reitz receives a Niels Stensen Fellowship 30 October 2013
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department, has received a Niels Stensen Fellowship.
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Political influence of ‘women above stairs’ 21 October 2013
A new volume, co-edited by Nadine Akkerman of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, shows how ladies-in-waiting, by 'creatively manipu...
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NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for dr. Maria Boletsi 29 July 2013
The project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present. Responding to the contemporary popu...
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‘I didn't do any self-censorship' 03 April 2013
President Putin will be officially opening the Netherlands–Russia Year on 8 April in Amsterdam. Leiden Slavist Sjeng Scheijen was responsible for putt...
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Winter Queen exhibition: Pearls as symbol of power 12 March 2013
A Leiden literary scholar, paintings of the Winter King and Queen and a string of pearls brought together by an exhibition in the Hague. Dr Nadine Akk...
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New LUCAS Journal launched 11 February 2013
On Monday 11 February, the first issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference went online officially.
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Official launch of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference 11 February 2013
The official presentation of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference will take place at Leiden University’s Academiegebouw on 25 January 2013, th...