232 search results for “literature and petra” in the Student website
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Naomi Rebekka Boekwijt: ‘This novel is a plea for human assistance’
Philosophy alumna Naomi Rebekka Boekwijt returns to Leiden University on 20 June to present her latest novel Stemmen (Voices) in Plexus. ‘I wanted to show that things could be done differently in psychiatric care.’
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Education administration office
Education administration offices
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Save the Date: Day of Languages and Cultures
Festival
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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Four Leiden professors elected members of the KHMW
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed four Leiden professors as members. Petra Sijpesteijn, Vanessa Mak, Mariska Kret and Miranda van Eck have recently joined the KHMW.
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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…
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
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Adam RamadhanFaculty of Humanities
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Mustafa ColakFaculty of Humanities
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
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Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Faculty and study programme regulations
At faculty and study programme level there are various regulations in place to ensure that everything runs as it should. For example, there are thesis and faculty regulations, as well as rules and guidelines on assessments, exams, degree classifications and plagiarism.
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
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Marjolein LansingFaculty of Humanities
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Debate on World Cup Qatar: Boycott it or seize opportunity for attention?
The FIFA World Cup will get underway in Qatar this November – an event that has attracted much discussion in recent years. This discussion is not only centred on sport. Human rights are in the spotlights in Qatar. On Friday 30 September, Leiden University organised a debate in which experts from various…
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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Didem YerliFaculty of Humanities
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
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Jos BrosschotFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gergana Vasileva
ICLON
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Alex BrandsenFaculty of Archaeology
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Yunnan Ye
Faculty of Humanities
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Five Humanities master's programmes highly rated in Keuzegids 2026
Five master's programmes from the Faculty of Humanities scored highly in Keuzegids 2026.
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How can academics be supported in the face of threats on social media?
'Academics who share their knowledge with the outside world on social media are often insulted or even threatened. Especially female academics and academics of colour seem to regularly be the victim of sexist and racist comments.' This is what Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature…
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021
Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’
They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.
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All about LUF grants for students
Research
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Uhlenbeck scholarship research master students
Master
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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Karsten LambersFaculty of Archaeology
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Blue Diversity: Drinking Water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850
Lecture, Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale