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Home magazines of yesteryear: Upholsterers were the interior designers of the eighteenth century' 17 March 2023
Today, anyone wanting a new look for their living room watches a home decorating programme or buys an interior design magazine. In the eighteenth cent...
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How music shaped a Cabo Verdean community in Rotterdam 10 February 2023
No migrant community in the Netherlands wrote as many songs about the place they migrated to as the Cabo Verdean one. PhD candidate Seger Kersbergen s...
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds' 05 December 2022
We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration t...
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Americans go to the polls: 'The midterms are more than a popularity poll' 03 November 2022
On Tuesday 8 November, Americans will go to the polls for the so-called midterm elections. 'We tend to look at this election as if it were a poll on B...
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island] 26 October 2022
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered...
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films 11 October 2022
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten d...
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements? 04 October 2022
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a ba...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022
Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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Sara Brandellero: ‘We need to protect the city from an excess of light’ 22 September 2022
On 25 September, lights throughout Leiden will be turned off for the Seeing Stars event. What makes the urban night so special? We asked university le...
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Astrid Van Weyenberg wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2022 12 September 2022
University lecturer Astrid Van Weyenberg has won the Faculty of Humanities Teaching Prize. ‘Astrid is a lovely person who can teach well.'
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’ 28 July 2022
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins 04 July 2022
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lectur...
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration 27 June 2022
Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints an...
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‘Artists seek and research another dimension of science’ 27 June 2022
In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the ...
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Out now! LEAP # 2: (Mis)Reading Nature 23 June 2022
LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course....