236 search results for “dutch colonial and postcolonial literature” in the Library website
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates to Leiden Chinese Queer Collection
On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to officially launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC), the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) donated 30 titles of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ literature to support this initiative. These works where published between 1971 and 2022 by authors…
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Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once again being widely debated. This renewed and intensified interest in the problems surrounding racism is prompting many to (re)read important works by black…
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van Vuren
Mitchell van Vuren is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society. He studies the globalisation of Chinese science fiction/speculative fiction in the digital age, especially focussing on the platformisation of SVOD services.
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Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than 20.000 maps, atlases and topographical prints and drawings available in Digital Collections. With this, a significant part of one of the largest and most important collections of maps and atlases in the Netherlands has now been made digitally available…
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Peggy Bracco GartnerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruud Koole
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tinde van AndelFaculty of Science
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Marijn NagtzaamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Joop van Holsteijn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Carmen Kleinherenbrink is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). She teaches in the Nederlandkunde/Dutch Studies bachelor's program and regularly organizes activities for both students and instructors to engage them in international Dutch studies. An example…
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Harold van der Kraan
Harold van der Kraan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Sulakshana de Mel
Sulakshana de Mel is a Scholarship PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Elias
Ton Elias is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Mark Loderichs
Mark Loderichs is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Ornstein is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Hans-Martien ten NapelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Annemieke VerbaasFaculty of Archaeology
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Karla Paola Cabrera Acuña
Karla Paola Cabrera Acuña is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society. Master of Arts in Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Graduate in Hispanic Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Online exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies
From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) hold many sources that provide insight into the development of tourism in the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, from 1870…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Quentin BourgeoisFaculty of Archaeology
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Jasper DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Anouk Koenderink
Faculty of Humanities
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Maps and Atlases
The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.
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Wim VoermansFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Irena ZagarFaculty of Humanities
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South and Southeast Asian Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for South and Southeast Asian Studies.
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter Veenendaal
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Vietnam on Dutch maps
In 2023, it will be fifty years since Vietnam and the Netherlands established diplomatic relations. This will be commemorated in both countries. At the beginning of November, outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. On that occasion Leiden University Libraries will launch…
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Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.
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Alex BrandsenFaculty of Archaeology
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Tilko Arne Swalve
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Fotini Vassou
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas ScarffFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Dutch universities give Open Access another boost
The Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers.
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Dennis Bos
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Online exhibition – Yemen through the Dutch lens
Northern Yemen; a highland region often in the news as the center of the Houthi regime, has a political, social, and intellectual history spanning more than a millennium. This exhibition showcases some of the findings of the Early Modern State Development in Yemen project, based at Leiden University,…
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American Chemical Society Supports Open Access Goals of Dutch Universities
The American Chemical Society’s Publications Division (ACS) and VSNU, in its role representing Dutch universities and participating research institutions, have reached an agreement whereby open access publishing arrangements will be a part of the subscription licensing contract between the US-based…