454 search results for “ancient literary criticism” in the Staff website
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Literary café
Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
t.anbeek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.van.alphen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
w.j.j.schipper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Literary Leiden
Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locations in Leiden and watch the best film adapted from a Leiden novel as decided on by you. April is Literary Leiden month! A month in which we pay special…
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Maarja Seire
Faculty of Humanities
m.seire@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1707
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Cornelis van Tilburg
Faculty of Humanities
c.r.van.tilburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2774
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Mariëtte Keuken
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.w.keuken@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2035
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Paul Beliën
Faculty of Humanities
p.a.m.belien@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Da Jin
Faculty of Humanities
d.jin@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ilios Willemars
Faculty of Humanities
i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7160
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Noah Littel
Faculty of Humanities
n.littel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
j.k.zangenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2579
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
m.flohr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2753
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
k.a.worp@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Carolien van Zoest
Faculty of Humanities
c.h.van.zoest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2036
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‘The ancient Egyptians were concerned with more than just death’
When we think about ancient Egypt, the first things that come to mind are usually mummies and sarcophagi. According to researcher and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden curator Lara Weiss, that impression is unjustified. She made an audio tour for the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden that focuses on living Egyptians…
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
c.zhang@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Janneke Wesseling
Faculty of Humanities
j.c.wesseling@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2761
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
s.yue@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mélie Louys
Faculteit Archeologie
m.louys@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 NNB
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Ben Haring
Faculty of Humanities
b.j.j.haring@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4170
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Anita Keizers
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
a.g.m.keizers@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2035
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Life in a port city: Roderick Geerts writes a blog post about the ancient port of Berenike
Roderick Geerts, a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden, takes us on a short journey through the rich history of the Red Sea port of Berenike in Egypt.
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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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Papers) Classics Colloquium: Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World
Research
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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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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Aidan Lyon
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.s.lyon@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Leiden researchers organise first Week of Ancient Writing
This month marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. NINO, the Language Museum, Things that Talk and the National Museum of Antiquities are seizing the opportunity to organise the first Week of Ancient Writing.
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
In ancient times, the desert in the Udhruh region in Jordan was transformed into a green oasis. An intricate network of underground water channels was part of an ancient system of water management, storing water and preventing loss through evaporation. Archaeologist Mark Driessen found a new way to…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices
New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in PLOS One.
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
p.g.hoftijzer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Archaeological explorations in Jordan unveil traces of ancient caravan routes
Systematic aerial surveys carried out in Jordan’s Eastern Badia region since 1998 and about 10 years of simplified satellite image analysis have led to the discovery of multiple prehistoric sites, according to archaeologist Peter Akkermans. The Jordan Times interviewed him about the new insights.
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Podcast Finally Friday with ancient-fire expert Femke Reidsma
Pyrotechnology – the manipulation and control of fire – is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, and has impacted nearly every technology that we used in the past and study archaeologically in the present. Our PhD researcher Femke Reidsma joined EXARC's podcast for May’s #FinallyFriday to…
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Jac Aarts
Faculteit Archeologie
j.m.m.j.g.aarts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Irene Vikatou
Faculteit Archeologie
e.vikatou@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
y.horsman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2777
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.f.herzfeld@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
l.alvarez.frances@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Bart Zantvoort
Faculty of Humanities
f.w.zantvoort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lieks Hettinga
Faculty of Humanities
l.hettinga@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2071