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Caroline van Eck wins Descartes-Huygens Prize 08 January 2014
Caroline van Eck has been awarded the Descartes-Huygens Prize. She will receive the award in March 2014. The prize includes a period as a guest resear...
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Bettina Reitz wins the Ted Meijer Prize 03 December 2013
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department has won Ted Meijer Prize of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
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Two new publications on Art and Living Presence 11 November 2013
The studies of two researchers previously working within the VICI-project ‘Art, Agency and Living Presence’ are now published by Leiden University Pre...
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Bettina Reitz receives a Niels Stensen Fellowship 30 October 2013
Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse, postdoctoral researcher in the Classics department, has received a Niels Stensen Fellowship.
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Political influence of ‘women above stairs’ 21 October 2013
A new volume, co-edited by Nadine Akkerman of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, shows how ladies-in-waiting, by 'creatively manipu...
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NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for dr. Maria Boletsi 29 July 2013
The project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present. Responding to the contemporary popu...
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‘I didn't do any self-censorship' 03 April 2013
President Putin will be officially opening the Netherlands–Russia Year on 8 April in Amsterdam. Leiden Slavist Sjeng Scheijen was responsible for putt...
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Winter Queen exhibition: Pearls as symbol of power 12 March 2013
A Leiden literary scholar, paintings of the Winter King and Queen and a string of pearls brought together by an exhibition in the Hague. Dr Nadine Akk...
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New LUCAS Journal launched 11 February 2013
On Monday 11 February, the first issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference went online officially.
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Official launch of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference 11 February 2013
The official presentation of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference will take place at Leiden University’s Academiegebouw on 25 January 2013, th...
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2012 'Valorisation' by Marieke Hendriksen 25 October 2012
As a humanities researcher, it is not always easy to explain to other people why what you do is important. It is easy for people to see why searching ...
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2012 Piranesi: revolutionary printmaker, illustrious architectural historian 05 October 2012
Exposition illustrious works by Piranesi now on view in Digital Special Collections.
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Anthonya Visser: 'Freiburg is a dream research environment' 18 June 2012
Anthonya (Thony) Visser, Leiden Professor of German Language and Literature, is spending six months as a senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for A...
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Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library 13 March 2012
Erik Kwakkel, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, has found an extraordinary manuscript in the University Library’s extensive collection of medie...
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2012 Six questions to Ulrike Tanzer 29 February 2012
Associate Professor Dr. Ulrike Tanzer from the German Department, University of Salzburg (Austria) is working for a few months at Leiden University. I...