272 search results for “modern nederlandse letterkunde” in the Student website
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Sarah de Lange
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arco TimmermansFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs VosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Conference
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Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
Conference
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Whose Language Is It, Anyway? Mapping Arabic in Modern Hebrew Literature
Middle East Studies Lecture
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The Expansion of Sugar Plantations in Early Modern Java, c. 1740-1780
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Bo WangFaculty of Humanities
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Ton HarmsenFaculty of Humanities
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Minke Jonk-ThuongFaculty of Humanities
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Boyao ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Yra van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Mathijs PetersFaculty of Humanities
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Pim van der HelmFaculty of Humanities
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Jakub Sindelar
Faculty of Humanities
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Campus The Hague of Leiden University to discuss future developments in special operations and the escalating competition between great powers.
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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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Participate in Het Grote Archeoscience Fest on June 27
Research
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Archaeologist Marie Soressi joins the discussion about the early use of bow-and-arrow technology in Europe
Nature News reported on the use of bow-and-arrow for hunting based on the research made on small points found in a 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2023: the nominees
Towards the graduation ceremonies, you sense an increasing nervousness. Not only because all the tradition and glamour surrounding the event, also because that will be the day that the winner of the Political Science master’s thesis award will be announced. For 2022-2023, the jury is considering seven…
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New light on the modern night. Computationally tracking “invisible flâneurs” in Antwerp police records (1876-1939)
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.