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Adriaan van der Weel about E-READ in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Researchers from more than 30 countries have been discussing the changes in reading through digitization in the European research network E-READ. Adriaan van der Weel, Senior University Lecturer, spoke about the network’s achievements in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’
It is the largest database for space ice yet: The Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry: LIDA. Created by astrophysicists at the Leiden Observatory, LIDA includes not only hundreds of measurement data, but also software to examine astronomical observations and prepare new measurements with the James…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Landscape in Perspective: Representing, Constructing, and Questioning Identities
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
- Art History Book Launches
- Online Book Launch
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#WalkingDead book launch
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library
Erik Kwakkel, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, has found an extraordinary manuscript in the University Library’s extensive collection of medieval books. The book in question dates back to the first half of the eleventh century and is made entirely out of waste left over from the production of…
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Sign of approval by the Spanish Inquisition
Book historian Erik Kwakkel found an intriguing snippet of text earlier this week, that bears unexpected evidence of some of the problems encoutered by early printers: censorship and the affiliated fuss of seeking and printing Church approval.
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Book Launch Media / Art / Politics
Lecture
- Medieval Book Scripts (5 ECTS)
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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LCCP Book presentation Jingjing Li
Debate
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Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
- Summer School Books and Culture 2020
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Book launch ‘The promise of music’
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Book Workshop Morality and Socially Constructed Norms
Debate
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Institute for Philosophy Common Book Launch
Conference
- How to research medieval books? (5 ECTS)
- How to research medieval books? (5 ECTS)
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
- Online Book Presentation: Reynard the Fox
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UMW Research Seminar: Book presentation "Classical Controversies"
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries
This project investigates how the first generation of Dutch printed books (the incunabula, 1473-1501) affected late medieval spirituality, religious practice and visual culture in the Low Countries.
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
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“Book Diplomacy” in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Conference
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The Most Popular Buddhist Illustrated Book of circa 1450
Lecture, China Seminar
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Lecture on the book The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Lecture
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Book Launch: Agon, Conflict and Mimesis in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Debate
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
- Book presentation Oort Biography - Piet van der Kruit
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Book launch handbook International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding
Book Launch
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Book launch As Above So Below 🙃 - Ruchama Noorda
Arts and culture, Book launch
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BOOK TALK: Offshore Attachments Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
- Book Launch Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History
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Grant project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER) (Leiden University)
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a postdoctoral Researcher (0.8 fte for 3 years) in the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER). Candidates are…
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Book Event: 'Seeking Western Men' with author Monica Liu
Lecture
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Sexuality in the Renaissance. From dissertation to public book
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Book Launch: (A New) Translation of the Nahj al-Balagha
Lecture
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Introducing Sophia Hendrikx
Sophia Hendrikx started her PhD project at LUCAS in March 2015...
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NWO reports on VIDI project Erik Kwakkel
In his VIDI project “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance” (2010-2015) Erik Kwakkel and his team studied how books and reading developed under influence of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, a period in which Europe went through a variety of cultural and intellectual…
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Book Launch and Discussion: Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America
Lecture, Book Launch and Discussion
- International Institute of Air and Space Law Authors Series Book Launch