731 search results for “early modern english literature” in the Staff website
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
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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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Suicides in Lithuania in the late 19th − early 20th centuries
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Arent PolFaculty of Archaeology
a.pol@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Karl Erik SchøllhammerFaculty of Humanities
k.e.schollhammer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Joris DormansFaculty of Humanities
j.dormans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sini HassinenFaculty of Humanities
s.k.hassinen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4167
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
j.k.zangenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2579
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and rebirth: Acts of recovery in gender separatist feminist utopian literature
PhD defence
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
t.tsepak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273923
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Anna KrýsováFaculty of Humanities
a.l.c.krysova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Yifan Hu
Faculty of Humanities
y.hu.24@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Promoting early recognition of persistent somatic symptoms in primary care
PhD defence
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Timothy de ZeeuwFaculty of Humanities
w.j.t.de.zeeuw@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273244
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
l.jing@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271693
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Dreaming the Path: Diagnosing Bodhisattva Progress in Early Mahāyāna
PhD defence
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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[CANCELLED] Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Boitumelo Vavani
Social & Behavioural Sciences
b.tembo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Julia van den BergSocial & Behavioural Sciences
j.f.van.den.berg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276814
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
a.liptak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273320
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Anne van GiezenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
giezen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Song Tan
Faculty of Humanities
s.tan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Pitfalls for Advanced Writers of Academic English & Word Order (Graduate School FSW)
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Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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New technique makes it easier to determine how our ancestors used fire
The use of fire can tell us a lot about human evolution. Archaeologist Femke Reidsma has developed a more accurate technique to identify how our ancestors used fire. Existing archaeological studies will need to be revised. Reidsma’s study was published in Nature Scientific Reports on 2 November.
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
l.alvarez.frances@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Control of early plant development by light quality
PhD defence
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Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
PhD defence
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
Conference
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Anna ScottFaculty of Humanities
a.m.scott@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Birte KristiansenFaculty of Humanities
b.kristiansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Dodo Through the Looking-Glass: A Mirror for Modern and Contemporary Culture
Inaugural lecture
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Archaeologist Mette Langbroek works on beads exhibition: ‘Humans have a special relationship with beads'
Beads are among the oldest types of human artistic expression. Even so, the small ornaments have a bad status record regarding archaeological investigation. PhD candidate Mette Langbroek, usually at home studying early medieval beads, had the opportunity to work on a publication and exhibition on 5000…
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series