564 search results for “asian literary” in the Staff website
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty 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…
- Anchoring Objects: Material culture and the dynamics of innovation in the ancient world
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Core curriculum course Humanities in a Digital World
From 2026-2027, the Faculty of Humanities will add a new core curriculum course to its education: Humanities in a Digital World. The new course will prepare all students for their role as humanities specialists in the digital society. The course has been developed by experts from different study programmes…
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Ae Ree NamFaculty of Humanities
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
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Sanayi MarcellineFaculty of Humanities
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Mubarika NugraheniFaculty of Humanities
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Windu YusufFaculty of Humanities
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Steven DenneyFaculty of Humanities
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Ajay GandhiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira RatwatteFaculty of Humanities
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
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Roozbeh SeyediFaculty of Humanities
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Fransiskus WidiyarsoFaculty of Humanities
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Abbas Siavash AbkenarFaculty of Humanities
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Nicole van OsFaculty of Humanities
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Michael HerzfeldFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Aya EzawaFaculty of Humanities
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Huge interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents visited faculties in Leiden and The Hague to soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it would be to study at Leiden…
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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In Memoriam: Lucas Ressang
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Lucas Ressang, a valued member of our Asian Studies community. Lucas was a dedicated and thoughtful student whose intellectual curiosity and passion for learning left a lasting impact on those who had the privilege of working with him.
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Potent Matrix of Buddhist Merit-Making: The rise and fall of imperial calligraphy on clay tablets for the Great Goose Pagoda
Lecture, China Seminar
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To Amuse, to Amass, and to Multiply: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
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Crimmigration conference uses art to foster dialogue
The debate on migration and criminalisation concerns everyone from citizens and policymakers to academics. The Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift conference in Leiden in July aims to offer new insights and encourage collaboration. Artists are playing a key role.
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Introducing: Sandra Manickam
Sandra Manickam recently joined the Institute for History as a researcher in the ERC Starting Grant project ' COMET. Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia', under the supervision of Fenneke Sysling. Below, she introduces herself.
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Podcasts for Easter
Got an hour to spare over the long weekend? Then listen to an episode of the new podcasts that have seen the light of day at the faculty in recent months.
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Thijs WittyFaculty of Humanities
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Peter VerstratenFaculty of Humanities
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Luisella CaonFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Otto BoeleFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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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.