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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Challenging the digital natives 18 December 2020
How do you engage students in times of corona? Sara Brandellero, co-chair of the study programmes for Latin American studies, created assignments that...
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NIAS fellowship for Maria Boletsi 16 December 2020
Maria Boletsi has received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) within the framework of the Theme Group Project The P...
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize! 11 November 2020
Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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We can no longer look at the world as ‘the West and the rest’ 06 November 2020
Art historian and professor Kitty Zijlmans is on a mission: she wants to get rid of the notion that the West dominates the art world. To no longer put...
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Vidi for research into economics and anthropology in ancient Greece 05 November 2020
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel has obtained a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will enable her to research the image of man that emerges from ...