2,143 search results for “literature” in the Public website
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Beyond Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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The imagination as gaoler and as escape
Fiction is more effective than autobiographical non-fiction when it comes to conveying the sensation of enforced solitary confinement. That is the conclusion of writer and lawyer Maarten Asscher in his study 'Het uur der waarheid. Over de gevangenschap als literaire ervaring' (The Moment of Truth: Imprisonment…
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Modern and Contemporary (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections and interactions between a variety of artistic expressions and society. It focuses not only on objects (artistic, literary, cinematic, and medial), but also on practices (aesthetic, political, and cultural).
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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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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
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Erik Kwakkel confesses his love of Medieval books
As Scaliger professor, Erik Kwakkel is responsible for the academic context of the complete Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. His inaugural lecture on 15 May will focus mainly on the section closest to his heart: Medieval books.
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch Centre for Travel Writing Studies
The Dutch Center for Travel Writing Studies s a scientific center that develops and coordinates initiatives to promote research into travel writing. It actively seeks contact with external (scientific and social) partners to collaborate on issues surrounding cultural / national identity, cultural contact…
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Book recommendation from ... Robert Stein
Every month a member of the Institute for History tells about a book that inspired him or her. Afterwards, the pen is passed on to another colleague. This month dr. Robert Stein tells about the book 'La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert' by Swiss writer Joel Dicker. It is not so much the whodunit that…
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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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Thijs Porck participates in the SELIM conference in Granada, Spain
From 17 to 19 September, the University of Granada organized the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM).
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The Postal Imagination: Returning Mail in Contemporary Culture
How to understand the simultaneously dis- and reappearance of letters in contemporary culture, and how does this Neo-Epistolarity relate to media-technological change?
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Voicing the colony
This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Renske Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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