176 search results for “gedaan literature” in the Staff website
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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Once upon a War: Truth and Subversion in Iranian War Literature
Lecture
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Literature and Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
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NICA is moving to Leiden
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amsterdam, has moved to the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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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.
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult, even though it is precisely jokes that can encourage children to read more, notes PhD candidate Alice Morta.
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Whose Language Is It, Anyway? Mapping Arabic in Modern Hebrew Literature
Middle East Studies Lecture
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2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
t.tsepak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3923
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and rebirth: Acts of recovery in gender separatist feminist utopian literature
PhD defence
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
w.van.anrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
b.k.ieven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1308
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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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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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
k.a.milne@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2978
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
r.a.clemens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2165
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
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Milan IsmangilFaculty of Humanities
m.s.ismangil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Cas Botman
Faculty of Humanities
k.r.w.botman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Joanna Greenland
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.greenland@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nicolas TurnerFaculty of Humanities
n.d.turner@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Gislene Da Silva Trindade
Faculty of Humanities
g.trindade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Katinka ZevenFaculty of Humanities
k.zeven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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Marjolein LansingICLON
m.m.lansing@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Finn Lindo-DunnFaculty of Humanities
f.c.lindo-dunn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272210
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
s.yeshi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7326
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
h.d.j.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
m.wansleeben@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2930
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Leonie HenkesFaculty of Humanities
l.c.f.henkes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zheyu ShangFaculty of Humanities
z.shang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy
Lecture, China Seminar
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Meijers Lecture and New Year’s Reception: starting the new year full of enthusiasm and inspiration!
In traditional style, 2025 was ushered in at our faculty with the Meijers Lecture followed by the New Year's Reception. On Thursday 16 January 2025, the Meijers Lecture took place in the Lorentz Lecture Hall where the Meijers Prizes and the Van Wersch Springplank Prize were also awarded. At the New…
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Tap Dance beginners
Arts and leisure
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Wenxuan Peng
Faculty of Humanities
w.peng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
r.j.striekwold@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jos BrosschotSocial & Behavioural Sciences
brosschot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3740
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Zeynep AnliSocial & Behavioural Sciences
z.anli@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Suzanne KlareFaculty of Humanities
s.h.klare@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lisa LenderinkFaculty of Humanities
l.l.lenderink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Gergana Vasileva
ICLON
g.vasileva@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271787