818 search results for “area in the spotlight” in the Library website
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Arie in 't VeldFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan LondonFaculty of Humanities
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona
BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the ceramic and experimental lab for her thesis. ‘It is different in the labs, a lot quieter, I can better concentrate on my work however.’
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Online exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies
From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) hold many sources that provide insight into the development of tourism in the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, from 1870…
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New in the Leiden collections: the Amsterdam Yemen Library
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been enriched with the Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, or Amsterdam Yemen Library. This collection, which exists of about a thousand books, journals and maps, is the largest coherent Yemen collection in The Netherlands and was brought together…
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’
Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing to do this now he is working from home? And how is Silvia Vermetten digitising Eastern manuscripts from home?
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New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska
Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Most letters were written in 1982-1983 before the first publication of a collection of Szymborska’s poetry in Dutch, translated by…
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Anke KleinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Federico De MussoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Mitch van GeelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bart van der SteenLeiden University Libraries
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Peter van der PuttenFaculty of Science
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Eduard Fosch VillarongaFaculty of Law
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Liesbeth van VlietFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Amy EaglestoneFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Max van DuijnFaculty of Science
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Lara WierengaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Bleda DüringFaculty of Archaeology
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Constant HijzenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Nadira SaabICLON
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Maryla KlajnFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Annelieke HagenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mariana FrançozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Photo report of the university float in the Grand Parade
The Grand Parade was a festive highlight of the 450th anniversary celebration of 3 October. Students and staff members from Leiden University participated with an impressive float.
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Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain
Hundreds of beautiful and timeless photos by Emmy Andriesse, one of the most important Dutch photographers of the twentieth century, are now freely accessible for everyone and can be used for research, education or other purposes. Large parts of Andriesse's oeuvre are already available online via Digital…
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Web-archiving and digital archives: Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia
On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia.
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Mark DriessenFaculty of Archaeology
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Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). On behalf of Leiden University…
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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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…