News
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Photo Collection Research Tutorial 15 January 2015
Maartje van den Heuvel, researcher and curator of photography at Leiden University, will be giving a tutorial next semester to master students of Film...
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PhD research Marije Groos 16 December 2014
Marije Groos was a PhD researcher at the LUCAS. She completed her thesis on socio-political engagement in Dutch literary periodicals of the fifties. H...
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Rival women at the Court of The Hague 13 November 2014
Dr Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in Early Modern Literature and postdoctoral researcher in Leiden, has written a new book to accompany the exhibition on E...
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The fall of the Berlin wall - 25 years later 05 November 2014
Anthonya Visser, Professor of German Language and Literature, was a PhD candidate in East Berlin just before the fall of the wall. The 'Wende' became ...
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions 14 October 2014
Markus Altena Davidsen’s PhD dissertation is the first major study of Tolkien Religion. In it, he analyses the religion that is based on the stories b...
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Medieval Pen Trials In the News 07 October 2014
Interview for National Public Radio sparks media frenzy.
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New Issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies 09 September 2014
In September, the eighth issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies will be online, dealing with sounds and/from outer space.
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‘Visual art has been a form of communication since its inception’ 01 September 2014
Visual art played an important role in the development of cooperative human behaviour. This is the finding of Larissa Mendoza Straffon, a PhD can...
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Nadine Akkerman Visiting Fellow at University of Birmingham 18 June 2014
Dr. Nadine Akkerman, working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham fro...
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Adriaan van der Weel receives COST network subsidy 16 May 2014
Together with three other scholars Adriaan van der Weel successfully applied for a COST research network subsidy.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale 07 May 2014
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University ...
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Daniela Merolla qualified with ‘Habilitation’ 06 March 2014
The "Habilitation"(HDR) is the highest qualification that a researcher can achieve in France and qualifies the researcher to supervise doctoral candid...
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Six students follow the Silk Route for Amsterdam's Hermitage 03 March 2014
Six students of archaeology, history and art history are to follow the Silk Route in Central Asia, looking for evidence from ancient history for the e...
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View from abroad… a sabbatical in Denmark 17 February 2014
Leiden art historian Juliette Roding spent her sabbatical in Denmark, researching a 17th century court artist. She not only learned more about the art...
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Second issue JLGC published 01 February 2014
On 1 February 2014 the second issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Ritual, Representation and Remembrance', was publi...