1,509 search results for “de world van talen en culture” in the Library website
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Leila DemarestSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict (dated 1582) from the Ming dynasty period, at one time part of the former collection of well-known sinologist and author of detective-novels Robert van…
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Banner exhibition graphic works of Harry van Kruiningen about the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh was a lifelong inspiration to artist Harry van Kruiningen. This tale from Mesopotamia about the adventures of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, and his friend Enkidu is one of the oldest surviving epics in world literature. Despite its almost 4,000 year age, it still captures…
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the last examples of a so-called pictographic script that can only be interpreted by Dongba priests, shamans, who have knowledge of the ancient Dongba cu…
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Marie KolbenstetterFaculty of Archaeology
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Iris JongejanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gido Oude KotteFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rosanneke EmmenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Niek ZondagFaculty of Law
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Marco VisserFaculty of Science
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Arent PolFaculty of Archaeology
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Alexander MohnsFaculty of Archaeology
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Jac AartsFaculty of Archaeology
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Top 450 continues: lawyer Lizzy van Dorp is the 100th entry
Lawyer, economist, politician and women’s rights activist Lizzy van Dorp is the 100th entry in our Top 450. Who or what is your favourite?
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Rik van GijnFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Erik DanenFaculty of Science
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Katharina RiebelFaculty of Science
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Mia Dambach
Faculty of Law
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Jeroen van ZoolingenFaculty of Archaeology
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Marijke Kooijman
Faculty of Humanities
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Rowie StolkFaculty of Law
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Tom BarkhuysenFaculty of Law
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Janine PrinsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah BozuwaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah SmithSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Wiebe RuijtenbergFaculty of Law
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Eric MulderFaculty of Archaeology
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Irna HofmanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Emily Elizabeth GdulaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Roxane HeidenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Colin EwenFaculty of Humanities
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Marianne Maeckelbergh
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Jan JansenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ratna Saptari Soetikno Slamet
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Abhimanyu ChettriSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Francesca Sofia SelanoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Merlijn van WeerdFaculty of Science
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Martijn DefiletFaculty of Archaeology
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Rik LettanyFaculty of Archaeology
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Mink van IJzendoornFaculty of Archaeology