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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century s...
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Russian writer Maxim Osipov coming to Leiden University 17 June 2022
Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the...
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Steven Lauritano awarded Comenius Teaching Fellow grant to improve hybrid education in object-oriented classes 06 June 2022
University lecturer Steven Lauritano has been awarded a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. Lauritano will use the grant of 50,000 euros to improve hybrid...
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Three questions about the new podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur 02 June 2022
Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische lite...
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence 19 May 2022
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for...
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’ 17 May 2022
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how...
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’ 10 May 2022
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Du...
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers 03 May 2022
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an ed...
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Call for Papers for LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism' on 23 September 2022 25 April 2022
Medievalism is the area of academic study that investigates the reception and reconstruction of the medieval past since the Middle Ages came to an end.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference - Call for Papers 20 April 2022
This is a call for papers for the upcoming tenth issue of the Journal of the Lucas Graduate Conference (JLGC), intended to be published by the end of ...
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants 14 April 2022
Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Researc...
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022! 13 April 2022
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens 07 April 2022
A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn...
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience 07 April 2022
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge...