217 search results for “greek literature” in the Staff website
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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Search the scholarly literature more efficiently with AI
Library, Research
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Events Office: our portfolio
To give you some idea of the options, below are some examples of events that the Events Office has organised.
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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 Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Renske Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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POSTPONED - The world of the Greek epigram. Studying Inscribed Funerary Poetry from the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East
Conference, Research Seminar
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Beyond Departure: The Greeks in Egypt, 1962-1976
PhD defence
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
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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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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Meet Louise van der Vlugt, Co-winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award
In December 2023, Louise van der Vlugt was announced as Co-Winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award. She sat down to answer some questions about her prize-winning BA Thesis.
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Bombastic publications encouraged millions of Dutch people to emigrate
After the Second World War almost three million people emigrated from the Netherlands to countries such as Canada and Australia. The government information was anything but objective, Professor by Special Appointment of Dutch Studies/Dutch Literature Ton van Kalmthout concludes in his inaugural lect…
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Paula Harvey
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Three questions about the new podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur
Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur, senior lecturer Otto Boele and film maker and journalist Kay Mastenbroek discuss the most talked-about Russian books published in the past two…
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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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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest.
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
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Leiden Literature Lunch Lecture (and reading) - Literary Leiden
Lunch Lecture (and reading)
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Tijmen Baarda
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Nidesh Lawtoo
Faculty of Humanities
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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…