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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round)12 June 2023With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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New DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship for Indonesian Special Collections12 June 2023Every year, the DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programme offers three senior (postdoc) researchers affiliated with a state or private university in Indonesia...
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Now available: Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers09 June 2023This practical guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all academic disciplines. The instruction...
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje15 May 2023Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts11 May 2023Manuscripts 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...
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Literary Leiden03 April 2023Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides29 March 2023The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This...
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list23 March 2023While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...
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Join the Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March 202327 February 2023The Crafting Resilience Kick Off on 30 March seeks to inspire conversations around new state-citizen relations in the social domain. At this conferenc...
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Collection of anatomical drawings available in Europeana16 February 2023Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows me...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants13 February 2023The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2023. ...
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Alenka Prinčič appointed as Head of Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries09 February 2023From March 1, Alenka Prinčič will be the new Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Leiden University Libraries. Her expertise in the are...