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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project 19 November 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundre...
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Donation of early twentieth-century glass negatives and prints from the Arabian Peninsula 11 November 2021On Thursday 11 November, Jan Jaap Hooft and Marjon Hooft donated a special collection of glass negatives and photographic prints from the Arabian Peni...
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Climate fiction – the reading list 10 November 2021From rapidly rising global temperatures to the increasing frequency of catastrophic weather events, every year the effects of the climate crisis becom...
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Perspective for people with borderline personality disorder 05 November 2021
‘Raising awareness of the disorder is crucial since borderline personality disorder (BPD) still faces considerable stigma ’, says Anne Krause-Utz (Cli...
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Walaeus Library part of UBL 01 November 2021Starting 1 November, the Walaeus Library, located in the Leiden University Medical Centre, is part of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).
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Now available: a practical guide to preprints 29 October 2021A useful hands-on guide to preprints is now available for researchers. It provides anwers to some urgent questions. What are preprints? What are the ...
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New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska 21 October 2021Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden Universit...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list 08 October 2021The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and co...
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James Bond, the cultural phenomenon - a reading list 30 September 2021With the creation of James Bond, author Ian Fleming laid the foundation for a sprawling media franchise. Since the first novel appeared in 1953, Bond ...
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections 21 September 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This mak...
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Can you still trust the (Dutch) government? – a reading list 21 September 2021The democratic legal order can only function optimally if there is sufficient trust between citizens and government. Citizens must be able to trust th...
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How engaged documentary filmmakers use new technologies in their work 20 September 2021CADS lecturer Sander Hölsgens is one of the initiators of the NWO Smart Culture Project Documenting Complexity (project number CISC.KC.212). This proj...
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Block 8, 9 & 10 October in your agenda for the LUVE Graduation Show 2021 13 September 2021On 8, 9 and 10 October 2021 'Share the LUVE' takes place. During this graduation show the works of this year's graduates of the Visual Ethnography mas...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document 13 September 2021Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks - a reading list 10 September 2021On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoki...