819 search results for “area in the spotlight” in the Library website
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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Experience the university and student life in the Leiden Special Collections
With the thematic programme 'Student@University', Leiden University Libraries illuminates the rich past of the university and its students. Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures will be organised around this theme, especially for the interested public, and various blogs, videos…
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‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’
Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always remained fascinated by her 17th-century series, for which she feels so much love. ‘I kept seeing different, new things.’
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Stephen HarrisFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf van VlietFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Bernet ElzingaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Roeland van der RijstICLON
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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Anne Land-ZandstraFaculty of Science
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Maartje van der WoudeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University in The Hague – Researchers of the City
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