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Films from 2018 you mustn't miss!
2018 was filled with interesting developments at Leiden University. We try to record as many of them as possible, including in short videos. Here are five films that we think you mustn't miss!
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About the programme
This multidisciplinary programme offers you the opportunity to study the African continent from many different angles. As a result, you will acquire solid knowledge and understanding of the major historical, cultural, socio-economic and political factors at play in Africa, and learn how to advance this…
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Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles
In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and columnist Christiaan Weijts (1976). ‘I always felt as though someone would tap me on my shoulder once they’d discovered my clandestine presence.’
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In love with translating: alumna Anna became a literary translator
A permanent job or start your own company? After her studies in English Language and Culture and History, Anna Visser (28) was faced with this exact choice and chose the latter. She started working as a freelance translator. How did this go and how did her studies benefit her?
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The Spirit of the Page: Books and Readers at the Abbey of Fécamp, c.1000-1200
This dissertation examines how Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Fécamp designed, produced, and read books over the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe
In the Brill series Intersections a new volume has been published, entitled Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe.
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Coping With the Gods
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than…
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The Modern Arabic Book: Design as Agent of Cultural Progress
Huda Abi-Fares defended her thesis on 10 January 2017.
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Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy
While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work.
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Programme structure
The English Language and Culture programme focuses on four areas, namely: philology, literature, linguistics and language acquisition. It also offers several specialisation options, ranging from renaissance literature to the use of metaphors.
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Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
This series of publications brings together new material on wellconsidered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.
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Sander Hölsgens
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.r.j.j.holsgens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
m.neto.de.cordova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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White Skin, Savage Masks: Specters of Native Americans and the Revisiting of History
How to related figures of savages to conceptions of history?
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About the programme
Over the course of the Latin American Studies programme you will learn to understand the here and now of this region by engaging with the most recent academic debates.
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Berthe Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
b.k.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2379
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Kiyan Foroutan
Faculty of Humanities
k.foroutan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Judith Frishman
Faculty of Humanities
j.frishman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
s.daneshvar.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Marat Markert
Faculty of Humanities
m.markert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9934
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Eftychia Mylona
Faculty of Humanities
e.mylona@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9962
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Maria Riep
Faculteit Archeologie
m.riep@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Shuqi Jia
Faculty of Humanities
s.jia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Hossein Pourbagheri
Faculty of Humanities
h.pourbagheri@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5224
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Gjovalin Macaj
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
g.macaj@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Film 'Humans of Humanities' festively premiered in Trianon
It's easy to forget in these turbulent times, but on March 9th the film 'Humans of Humanities' premiered in cinema Trianon in Leiden. 160 guests saw Leiden scientists, teachers, students and alumni talk on the big screen about the value of their work as a humanities scholar. The film was followed by…
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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Special film evening 100 years International Labour Organization
As part of the events to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization, the Department of Labour Law of Leiden University has organized a film evening together with Kijkhuis cinema in Leiden.
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Minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change
The minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change (CSSC) makes a connection between gaining insight into creative processes and exploring social issues that characterize our time.
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Documentary Ildikó Plájás wins award film festival Romania
Visual Ethnography graduate Ildikó Plájás received the Best documentary award in the student competition at the international Astra Film Festival in Romania.
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Justin Bennett
Justin Bennett teaches in the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire (KC) in the Hague. He is also a member of Jubilee, a platform for artistic research and production in Brussels.
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Surprising productions at the Humanities Lab Film Festival
Humour, science and creativity. During the Humanities Lab Film Festival this came all together in the short films that the students of the Honours College Humanities have made in the last few weeks. “Working together with people of different studies is inspiring.”
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ACPA - Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
At ACPA, the collaboration between Leiden University and the University of the Arts The Hague, artistry and academia meet at the highest level.
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About the programme
Visual Ethnography combines anthropological theory and hands-on audiovisual practice.
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Exchange student makes best promotional film for Leiden
English student Anna Carey has won the Student and City film competition. Her promotional film for Leiden as a student city was the best of the 12 entries.
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Join the Humans of Humanities film premiere in Trianon!
The humanities consist of various academic fields. But what is the common ground of all these different academics and students? And why does their work matter so much in today’s world? Watch the trailer of Humans of Humanties, the new documentary film about the Leiden Faculty of Humanities. Will you…
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)
The master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory at Leiden University studies contemporary literature and culture (art, cinema, pop music) from a theoretical, critical perspective, with special emphases on approaches developed in cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, phenomenology and…
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Odile Bodde at King’s College London
Odile Bodde tells about her stay in London at King's College...
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Check out our new lectures and films programme!
Every Sunday at 7 pm, you'll be able to join us for either a public film screening or a lecture. Seats are limited and we work on a first-come, first-serve basis. Our doors open at 6:30 and close at 7:15 or earlier in case the lecture room has reached its full capacity (out of safety considerations)…
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Arie van der Kooij
Faculty of Humanities
a.van.der.kooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Hélène Nut
Faculty of Humanities
h.nut@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Jan Kees Colder
Faculty of Humanities
j.c.colder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mubarika Nugraheni
Faculty of Humanities
m.d.f.nugraheni@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Chunli Song
Faculty of Humanities
c.song@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Al Al Farabi
Faculty of Humanities
a.al.farabi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8813
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Sarah Holma
Faculty of Humanities
s.k.holma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Pilar Jimenez Galindo
Faculty of Humanities
m.d.p.jimenez.galindo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646