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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities' 08 September 2022
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is desi...
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‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance 22 August 2022
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you m...
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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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Ineke Sluiter: ‘Accessibility, diversity and inclusion are a matter of doing the right thing’ 28 July 2022
For two years, Ineke Sluiter was president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Now, she is returning to the university full ...
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’ 25 July 2022
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University le...
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LUCAS on a trip to NIMAR in Morocco 11 July 2022
It was more than two years in the making, but despite the delays, giving up was not an option. In May, eighteen staff members of LUCAS and the Faculty...
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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....
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century s...
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Russian writer Maxim Osipov coming to Leiden University 17 June 2022
Russian writer and cardiologist Maxim Osipov will come to the Netherlands for a year to teach in Leiden about Russian literature, his own work and the...
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Steven Lauritano awarded Comenius Teaching Fellow grant to improve hybrid education in object-oriented classes 06 June 2022
University lecturer Steven Lauritano has been awarded a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. Lauritano will use the grant of 50,000 euros to improve hybrid...
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Three questions about the new podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur 02 June 2022
Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische lite...
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence 19 May 2022
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for...