154 search results for “literature and poetry” 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.
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art
The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Korsten, Professor of Literature, Culture and Law. ‘The film raises a fundamental question: what’s a human and what’s not?’ From the next academic year onwards,…
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Marie Guilleray-GuénanffFaculty of Humanities
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Tommie van WanrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de LeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Joe FortinFaculty of Humanities
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Joan BoothFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog
The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Inspired by Verwey’s poem ‘De zegger van verzen’, Krog’s lecture was a polyphonic and multilingual love letter to poetry.
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Annelies Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Jonathan PriceFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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Evert Jan van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos JordaoFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der MeydenFaculty of Humanities
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Nick TombergeFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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Temporary order form for trade literature
Facility, Finance
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Julia SzirmaiFaculty of Humanities
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Eric van HoofBestuursbureau
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Search the scholarly literature more efficiently with AI
Library, Research
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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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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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Wim TiggesFaculty of Humanities
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Andries HiskesFaculty of Humanities