382 search results for “modern nederlandse literature” in the Student website
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An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was supposed to have been written to shape children into perfect citizens. PhD student Aafke van Ewijk nuances this image. Children's book writers wanted to have…
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Joseph Bosworth & Old English Studies: Then, Now and the Future
Conference
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Early Modern Academics and their networks: new perspectives on university history
Conference, Annual Conference of the Flemish-Dutch Society for Early Modern History
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Lydia Boer wins incentive prize for bachelor's thesis
History student Lydia Boer has won the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt incentive prize. She receives the prize for her bachelor’s thesis The marriage between Johan de Witt and Wendela Bicker: a political affair?
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
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Finn Lindo-DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Hylke HettemaFaculty of Humanities
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at the University. Some the students and workshop leaders reflect on the busy morning.
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn De CauwerFaculty of Humanities
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Kim DankoorFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmar HugenFaculty of Humanities
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Joris Dormans
Faculty of Humanities
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Arent Pol -
Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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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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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
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A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden
Lecture, Book launch event
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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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Master's student of Arts and Culture develops own exhibition: 'A very enriching experience'
Many students dread writing a thesis. Master’s student Laura Robustella's practice-based thesis shows that it is well worth the effort. She developed an art exhibition based on her master’s thesis.
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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.
- Presenting the wonders of early modern encyclopaedic collections in Leiden
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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Saniye InceFaculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de LeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Tatiana Vargas OrtizFaculty of Humanities
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Jaap GoedegebuureFaculty of Humanities
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Stéphanie NoachFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Sarah de Lange
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arco TimmermansFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Vos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Conference