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Introducing Renske Janssen 05 November 2015
Renske Janssen started her PhD project at LUCAS and LUIH in October 2015. Her project is part of the research field ‘History and Culture of Ancient Ju...
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The imagination as gaoler and as escape 30 October 2015
Fiction is more effective than autobiographical non-fiction when it comes to conveying the sensation of enforced solitary confinement. That is the con...
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen Identifies Manuscript Leaf in Bodleian Godwin Collection 22 October 2015
Recently, Evert Jan van Leeuwen was able to identify an “unknown” manuscript leaf in the William Godwin Papers of the Abinger Collection at the Bodlei...
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Launch of the European Network of Brazilianists – REBRAC 30 September 2015
Sara Brandellero, Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies (LUCAS), is a founding member of the newly launched European Network of Brazilianists worki...
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Thijs Porck participates in the SELIM conference in Granada, Spain 29 September 2015
From 17 to 19 September, the University of Granada organized the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language an...
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Espionage Techniques of Seventeenth-Century Women 23 September 2015
Spying in the seventeenth century was a man’s job. That had been the prevailing impression, until the Veni research by Nadine Akkerman from Leiden Uni...
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Recently published: Encoded correspondence - edited by Nadine Akkerman 14 September 2015
Coming four years after part II, and totalling more than one thousand pages, the long awaited first part of the Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart (15...
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Introducing Tingting Hui, PhD candidate at LUCAS 11 September 2015
Tingting Hui started her PhD project at LUCAS in September 2015. Her promotors will be Ernst van Alphen and Yasco Horsman from the Literary Studies de...
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Emma de Vries receives Fulbright Grant and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarship 25 August 2015
Emma de Vries, PhD researcher at LUCAS, has been awarded with a Fulbright Grant and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarship. From September 2015 onwar...
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Caroline van Eck appointed as Slade Professor in Oxford 21 August 2015
The Department of History of Art in Oxford has appointed Leiden University professor Caroline van Eck as Slade Professor of Fine Art for the second se...
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‘My First Paw-Reviewed Article’ 28 July 2015
In 2013, Thijs Porck wrote a guest blog for 'medievalfragments'...
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New home for LUCAS 20 July 2015
Members of LUCAS work in various buildings on the Witte Singel-Doelencomplex. The board and the secretariat are housed on the first floor of the P.N. ...
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Elisa Goudriaan wins Ted Meijer Prize 09 July 2015
The KNIR has awarded Elisa Goudriaan the Ted Meijer Prize for her dissertation The Cultural Importance of Florentine Patricians. Cultural Exchange, Br...
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Wim van Anrooij appointed to member KHMW 09 July 2015
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen invited Wim van Anrooij to join as a member. That does not happen to everyone!
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Looking back on the Law's pluralities conference in Giessen 09 July 2015
From 6 to 9 May the Law's pluralities conference was held at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. Highly interdisciplinary in the areas of literat...