392 search results for “literature and petra” in the Staff website
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Laura BerdikhojayevaFaculty of Humanities
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Mustafa Colak
Faculty of Humanities
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
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Supervising Your PhD Candidates: Next Level
Management
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Introducing: Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt
Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt recently joined the Institute for History within the NWO-funded project 'Epistemic actors. The role of Indonesians in the making of knowledge in the colonial era’ under the supervision of Fenneke Sysling. Below, they introduce themselves.
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Learning smarter with AI: from tool to reflection partner
The use of AI by students has become an integral part of education. Instead of banning it, the “GenAI in education” pilot project is investigating how AI can contribute to the learning process. Marco van Bommel, lecturer on the Economic and Consumer Psychology course, talks about the initial experiences…
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Professor by special appointment Saniye Çelik wins Woman in the Media Award: 'Important that women have a voice in public debate'
Saniye Çelik, Professor by Special Appointment of Diversity, Inclusion, and Policing at Leiden University, has received the Woman in the Media Award at Beeld & Geluid in Hilversum. She was selected as the winner by the jury from three female experts with the most votes.
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Una Europa opportunities: apply for a staff exchange with your European peers
Organisation
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Knowledge Café Interdisciplinary Learning for all staff (Friday 11 October)
Education
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. On December 9th, a symposium around his work will take place at Leiden University Libraries. This will be combined with the launch of Maria Boletsi's book…
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Programma Leiden Research Support (LRS)
De Universiteit Leiden zet in op de versterking van de ondersteuning voor onderzoekers en onderzoeksgroepen bij extern gefinancierde onderzoeksprojecten.
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marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy
Lecture, China Seminar
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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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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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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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Leiden Research Support Conference 2023
Conference
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’
How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff tried to answer at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being.
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Professor Ineke Sluiter receives Arts and Sciences Medal of Honour
On 25 November, Professor Ineke Sluiter received the Medal of Honour for Arts and Sciences in the Order of Orange-Nassau. She was presented with the medal by King Willem-Alexander.
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Academia in Motion Festival
Festival
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Club PhD | Time Management +
Personal development, Transferable skills
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Hundredth Senior Teaching Qualification awarded
Twenty-one dedicated teachers were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on 21 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in a ceremony in the Academy Building with an extra celebratory touch as the milestone of the 100th SKO certificate was reached.
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Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them
Workshop
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Max Farasat and Lara Offermans win the LUCSoR Thesis Prizes (2021-2023)
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two biennial thesis prizes, one for the best bachelor thesis and one for the best master thesis. Each of the prizes comes with a cash prize of €500. The prize money comes from the Fund…
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Blue Diversity: Drinking Water in the Netherlands, 1500-1850
Lecture, Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Wenxuan Peng
Faculty of Humanities
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Zeynep AnliSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Suzanne KlareFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa LenderinkFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony AlbrightFaculty of Humanities
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Clodagh MurphyFaculty of Humanities
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Alex BrandsenFaculty of Archaeology
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Nick TombergeICLON
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Aida GholamiFaculty of Humanities
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Ana Cardozo de SouzaFaculty of Humanities
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Gergana Vasileva
ICLON
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Jos BrosschotSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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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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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Exploring the Gap between Embodied Cognition and Generative AI
Conference, Spring workshop
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Lara Offermans and Marijn Bethlehem win the LUCSoR thesis prizes (2019-2021)
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two thesis prizes each year, one for the best bachelor thesis and one for the best master thesis.
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Writer in residence
Writer in residence Ronald Giphart will explore a number of his own fascinations with Leiden students.
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Students can now submit to The New Scholar (Leiden Student Journal of Humanities)
Education
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Studying Ghana’s civil service
Bureaucrats appointed based on merit are not necessarily more professional or autonomous than those who have been, for instance, ‘politically installed’. Furthermore, patronage does not only have negative effects. These are two conclusions reached by Abdul-Nasir Abubakar, PhD candidate at Leiden University’s…