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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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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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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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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund 04 February 2022
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclu...
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Newly appointed Art History professor, Minna Valjakka: 'Art teaches us more than you may think' 02 February 2022
On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as...
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"Storia de Nhas Pais" interviews’ collection officially handed over to Rotterdam City Archive 07 January 2022
A collection of interviews from the oral history project "Storia de Nhas Pais" ("Story of my Parents") was handed over to the Rotterdam City Archive o...
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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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From vlogging to organising seminars: students of Italian put their skills into practice 18 October 2021
Do you gain enough practical experience in an academic language and culture study programme? Certainly, proved the bachelor students of Italian this s...
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society 14 October 2021
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan v...
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant 21 June 2021
Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’ 18 June 2021
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep poppin...
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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 ...