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Online exhibition Tourism in the Dutch East Indies27 February 2025From travel stories, travel guides and hotel vignettes to postcards, drawings, menus, brochures, posters and photos. The collections of Leiden Univers...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants24 January 2025The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2025. ...
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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access23 January 2025The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini...
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Documentary - Restoring the eleventh-century Arabic manuscript De Materia Medica22 January 2025Water damage, old restorations and copper corrosion in some illustrations. De Materia Medica has been through a lot over the centuries. The manuscript...
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The Comics Canon - Graphic Novels at Leiden University Libraries14 January 2025Graphic Novels and Comics have developed from pulp status to an entirely self-contained medium. This form of storytelling is not limited to stories of...
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy07 November 2024The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. O...
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From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China31 October 2024Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fift...
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Maps and atlases collection Bodel Nijenhuis available for online search23 October 2024With the addition of over 16,500 new catalogue records, the collection of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872) is now almost entirely searcha...
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Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets16 October 2024Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?
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Banner exhibition graphic works of Harry van Kruiningen about the Epic of Gilgamesh09 October 2024The Epic of Gilgamesh was a lifelong inspiration to artist Harry van Kruiningen. This tale from Mesopotamia about the adventures of Gilgamesh, the leg...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on AI and Academic Publishing27 September 2024Artificial Intelligence is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all actors in the realm of academic publishing, including authors, editors, re...
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Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library26 September 2024Over 200 people paid their first visit to the new Middle Eastern Library on a special open evening. As well as exploring the library, they got to see ...
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal20 September 2024The exhibition ‘Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades’ at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alum...
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language17 September 2024Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach thi...
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library12 September 2024Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century me...