353 search results for “dutch colonial and postcolonial literature” in the Library website
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Japanese Literature Reading List
From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.
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(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search
Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The project’s aim is to describe and catalogue a 20th-century map collection of the library of the…
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Victor MeijersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Cartographic Collections
In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…
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Searching Dutch articles
Tips on how to search for Dutch articles or articles published in the Netherlands.
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Jeroen Oosterbaan -
Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.
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Oriol Febrer i VilasecaFaculty of Humanities
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Willemien den OudenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities
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Julius van der Poel
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Roderick Geerts -
Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Jos Bazelmans -
Victor PosthumaFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Mariana Françozo -
Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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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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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen van Zoolingen -
Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty 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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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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Marijn NagtzaamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Aya EzawaFaculty of Humanities