673 search results for “de zoektocht door het heelal” in the Library website
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Post-quantum cryptography should keep our DigiD, bank accounts and state secrets safe
Our banking, DigiD and sensitive medical data: what if our entire digital infrastructure can no longer be trusted? Jelle Don has this question permanently in mind as he goes about his research. And that is no bad thing because without new digital security measures, our society will be extremely vuln…
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’
He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, community support officer Dennis Perdok (49) is leaving this role. Last week he bid farewell to the police and to his job in Leiden’s city centre.
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
Our ever-increasing reliance on software and technologies, out of convenience, necessity or otherwise, binds us to supranational and commercial companies that provide them. Is it essential that governments, universities, and researchers ensure that they continue to be in control of their data and software?…
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Digitized post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection now available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has digitized more than a thousand individual manuscripts and several complete archives from the post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection and made them available online through Digital Collections. With this, some of the most important archives and masterpieces…
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Andrés Martín García de la Cruz
Faculty of Humanities
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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Old printed works and special editions in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made approximately 2300 old printed books and special editions available online through Digital Collections. With this, a small but important part of one of the oldest and most important collections of printed works in the Netherlands is now digitally available…
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Shaping the future with stories from the past
An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.
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Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden
Stadswandeling
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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’
Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal specialist, is enthusiastic about the research. ‘A big data project like this will help us establish the effect of our work on society.’
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Reading list - our favourites for the summer
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works and even cookbooks. Is there still some space on your summer reading list? Take a look at the list below and borrow your book through the UBL.
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Leiden cholera epidemics mapped out, literally
Three cholera epidemics struck 19th-century Leiden. Today’s corona epidemic prompted Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at the Leiden University Libraries, to scour the library for maps about these past epidemics.
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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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Leonor Veiga de Oliveira Matos Guilherme Ponsar
Faculty of Humanities
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…
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Valentine's Day - a reading list
Love. It makes people do the strangest things and at the same time it is a primary necessity of life. Over the centuries, writers and poets have filled up entire libraries with books on real and fictional relationships, and contemporary writers still like to delve into the complex, dramatic and at times…
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Friendship in poetry - a reading list
How do we view friendship? And how have writers throughout the ages described that unconditional bond of trust in poems and literature? It's Poetry Week! And you guessed it; this year's theme is 'Friendship'. For this reading list, we went through our collections in search of the many ways friendship…
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Climate fiction – the reading list
From rapidly rising global temperatures to the increasing frequency of catastrophic weather events, every year the effects of the climate crisis become more apparent. Can literature help us envision a life after climate change?
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Job van de Waeter
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jolanda van de Wetering
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Michiel van de Sande
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Maarten van de Wal
Science
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Niels van de Ven
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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Lydia van de Fliert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Louise de la Motte
ICLON
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Jorinde van de Vis
Science
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Franciscus van de Rijke
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Piet van de Velde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tessa van de Rozenberg
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Karlijn van de Wiel
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Laure aan de Stegge
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ilse van de Groep
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Joris van de Riet
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Suzan van de Velde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Esther van de Camp
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jill van de Rijt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sam van de Pol
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Liesbeth van de Vijver
Expertisecentrum SOZ
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Aron van de Pol
Faculty of Humanities
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Lotte van de Wiel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corry van de Sande-Rijkers
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Jeroen van de Linde
ICT Shared Service Centre
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Daan van de Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan van de Streek
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alisa van de Haar
Faculty of Humanities