394 search results for “literature and petra” in the Student website
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Alumnus Simone participating in National ThinkTank: ‘A good imagination is essential’
Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film and Literary Studies degree actually offers a unique perspective on the problem. She is therefore one of the 20 students participating in this year’s…
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Teaching assistants create space in packed schedules: ‘Finally, I have time to review the course content’
In this 'Educatip's column, psychology teachers share their key insights about work. This time: course coordinator Evelien Broekhof received support from teaching assistant Vincent during the last term. ‘I have more room in my schedule now that I don't have to do everything alone anymore.’
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From singer to French teacher: ‘I kept wondering what a university study would be like’
After a successful career as a singer, Esmee Schoones started studying French a few years ago. It resulted in a national award for her thesis on musical arrangements of Verlaine's poems and a job teaching French.
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling
The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…
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- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Information Meeting Honours Programme FGGA
Study information
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Beyond iced coffee and face masks: ‘True self-care is about emotional awareness and living according to your values’
In hun klinische stage leren Psychologiestudenten mentale steun bieden aan anderen, maar hoe zorgen zij als toekomstige therapeut ook voor zichzelf? Met video’s, podcasts en een panel wil Kelly Ziemer haar studenten de nodige zelfzorg-skills bijbrengen.
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the conservation biologist for her passion, engaging personality, and the way she motivates her students. On the Dutch Day of the Teacher, we get to know…
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…
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Exploring educational experiments: pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.
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CML talents receive Stans Award 2024
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best student thesis, best PhD paper and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated students and colleagues and this year’s jury Prof.dr.ing. Jan Willem Erisman and Prof.dr.ir Willie Peijnenburg made the final decision.
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Jonathan Hak on the paramount importance of the truth – and why we shouldn’t always take images at face value
Hak, lawyer, international imagery law lecturer, and adjunct associate professor, talks about his PhD research on the use of images in international criminal prosecutions. He was a public prosecutor in Canada for over 30 years and dealt primarily with the prosecution of homicides and other major cri…
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Online Q&A meeting Honours Programme FGGA
Study information
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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Uni-visions: Hope, heat and wonder in 2075
Arts and culture, Studium Generale
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To World Poetry and Back: Avant-garde Classicist Poetry in the Sinophone Cyberspace
Lecture, China Seminar
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
Conference
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: 'Interdisciplinary Education'
Conference, Knowledge Café
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Summer School Science Communication
Course
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The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan
Lecture
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Nacht van de Digitale Veiligheid
Festival
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Environmental Activism, Indigenous Survival, and Settler Colonialism in the Unist’ot’en Camp’s Resistance against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
Lecture
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: 'What is quality of teaching and how do you evaluate it?'
Conference, Knowledge Café
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Participatory Action Research: possibilities and challenges in the humanities
Course, Terra Incognita Masterclass
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
Arts and culture
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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event