443 search results for “cultural translational and transmission” in the Library website
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Friendship in poetry - a reading list
How do we view friendship? And how have writers throughout the ages described that unconditional bond of trust in poems and literature? It's Poetry Week! And you guessed it; this year's theme is 'Friendship'. For this reading list, we went through our collections in search of the many ways friendship…
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Honorary Doctorate Recipients - Safiya Noble and Catherine Malabou: The Reading List
This February, Leiden University honors two scholars who have responded to the challenges of modern society in important, innovative and exemplary ways. Catherine Malabou and Safiya Umoja Noble will receive honorary doctorates for their ground breaking research in philosophy and internet/media studies…
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Sources of Leiden University’s History
The archives created by Leiden University and the private archives of Leiden professors are an invaluable source for the history of the university and its functioning. The main sources have been edited (nearly always in Dutch). In addition, several studies have been published, describing the development…
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth van Vliet honoured with Heineken Young Scientists Award
Leiden health psychologist Liesbeth Van Vliet receives recognition for her research on doctor-patient communication and its influence on quality of healthcare. Van Vliet has been awarded one of four Heineken Young Scientists Award 2022 for promising young researchers working in the Netherlands.
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch government and professor in Leiden. Wim van den Doel published a biography of Snouck Hurgronje in 2021. Recently, the translation of the biography in Bahasa…
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Collection of historian Johan Huizinga fully available online
The complete Johan Huizinga, the single most important historian of the Netherlands, is now available worldwide through the new Huizinga Online website. Huizinga’s scholarly archive, his Verzamelde Werken and his correspondence have been made digitally accessible by Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Ann Brysbaert -
Erik de MaakerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana Françozo -
Andrew LittlejohnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Chinese Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Chinese Studies
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts
Manuscripts 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 last examples of a so-called pictographic script that can only be interpreted by Dongba priests, shamans, who have knowledge of the ancient Dongba cu…
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Newspaper articles (International)
Leiden’s University Library provides access to a large collection of digital (contemporary) and digitized (historical) newspapers. These newspapers can be found through the library’s catalogue and through the library’s databases. Furthermore, the Dutch National Library offers access to several international…
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Copyright basics
Explanation and background of Dutch copyright
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Palestine and Israel
This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.
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Exhibitions
Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.
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Chinese Special Collections
The Chinese Special Collections are part of the Asian Library. Items can be consulted at the Special Collections Reading Room.
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Shaping the future with stories from the past
An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Annemarie SamuelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Remko Offringa -
Bernet ElzingaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Shekhar KolipakaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Costanza FranceschiniFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Esther de VrindICLON
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Martin Berger -
Hanum AtikasariFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Francianne Dos Santos VelhoFaculty of Humanities
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Tanja AhlinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences