823 search results for “literature” in the Staff website
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Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
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An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was supposed to have been written to shape children into perfect citizens. PhD student Aafke van Ewijk nuances this image. Children's book writers wanted to have…
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
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Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
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NICA is moving to Leiden
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amsterdam, has moved to the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
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 euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
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Anna KrýsováFaculty of Humanities
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Yifan HuFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Marijn van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
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 van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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Katinka ZevenFaculty of Humanities
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
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Theo van der MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Cas Botman
Faculty of Humanities
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Nathalie HaakFaculty of Humanities
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Joanna Greenland
Faculty of Humanities
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Thomas Bragdon
Faculty of Humanities
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Hylke Hettema
Faculty of Humanities
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Sandra KartenICLON
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Milan Ismangil
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonie HenkesFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolas TurnerFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah BadwyFaculty of Humanities
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Finn Lindo-DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Zheyu ShangFaculty of Humanities
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Anna Ljung Grüner-HeggeFaculty of Humanities
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Marjolein LansingICLON
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Gislene Da Silva Trindade
Faculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy
Lecture, China Seminar