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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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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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Streaming the Sagas: a live role play in the North-European Age of Heroes 21 February 2022
Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing ag...
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books 24 January 2022
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million e...
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Masterclass: Investigating Disegno: Drawing and the Decorative Arts in Italy c.1500-1900 14 December 2021
This masterclass examines the idea of disegno in relation to the early modern decorative arts by investigating the collection of Italian design drawin...
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The surprising tradition of fables in French education: 'It builds bridges between generations' 25 November 2021
In the Netherlands, people probably grew up with De Fabeltjeskrant (a children’s show, ed.), but in France an introduction to fables plays a much more...
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 11 November 2021
Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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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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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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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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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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Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documents 10 December 2019
Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English m...