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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik 25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje 15 May 2023Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Literary Leiden - the reading list 03 April 2023Leiden fulfills a special role in Dutch literature: as a setting for stories as well as a place of work and residence for leading authors. It is the c...
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides 29 March 2023The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This...
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list 23 March 2023While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...
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Inflation - a reading list 24 February 2023In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same yea...
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New Cluster Zuid building is taking shape 21 February 2023A lot has happened at Cluster Zuid since the highest point of the building was reached in December. See the photo report below.
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Collection of anatomical drawings available in Europeana 16 February 2023Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows me...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants 13 February 2023The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2023. ...
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Alenka Prinčič appointed as Head of Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries 09 February 2023From March 1, Alenka Prinčič will be the new Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Leiden University Libraries. Her expertise in the are...
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Honorary doctorate for Arabist Beatrice Gründler 30 January 2023Beatrice Gründler, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, will receive an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscr...