2,158 search results for “literary studies” in the Public website
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Benjamin’s Figures: Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities
The writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are famously and purposely marked by fragmentariness. Paradoxically, a central aim of his work was to connect: all his life he sought to further the integration of scholarship in the humanities which, he believed, had too long suffered from the prevalence…
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…
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The Performative Force of Accented Speech: Language, Body, and Violence
This research examines the social, political, and cultural forces that structure people’s responses towards accented speech, and further uses the accent as a focal point to theorize the interrelation between language and body.
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WORD AND WHETSTONE: PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ACADEMIA
To what extent can literary strategies deepen and enhance research in and through the visual and performing arts, as well as for research in academia?
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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POST_SIGNATURE
To what extent is creative ownership in contemporary (graphic) design practices changing now that we are co-creating with machines? And can machines have copyrights, too?
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
On 1 September 2022 Afke van Ewijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil: Memory, Politics and Identities
The complexities of modernization in Brazil and Graciliano Ramos significance for our understanding of Brazil today.
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La Cetra Cornuta : the Horned Lyre of the Christian World
What was the stringed instrument known in medieval and early Renaissance Italy as “cetra”?
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Neoplatonism, the philosophy of the commentators
This project studies the theory and practice of moral education in the (Neo)Platonic tradition.
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From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence
Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy. Suny Press
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The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis
The Layered Heart : Essays on Persian Poetry is published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed “our pre-eminent translator from Persian” by The Washington Post.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Landscape in Perspective: Representing, Constructing, and Questioning Identities
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Alex Reuneker
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van 't Zelfde
Science
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Katja Lubina
Faculty of Humanities
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Mandy de Wilde
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gert-Jan Boon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Reinout Vriesendorp
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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NMR structural studies of protein-small molecule interactions
Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal
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About the programme
The MA Classics and Ancient Civilizations covers one year and can be studied in four tracks: Classics is one of them. While diving into the literary, cultural and intellectual worlds of Greece and Rome, you will be involved in current research, and stimulated to reflect on the significance of Classics…
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Studies on molecular basics of metabolic syndrome in zebrafish
The research described in this thesis has, using the zebrafish as a model system, shed new light on the intricate relationship between TB and DM2, in particular on the role of leptin, SHP-1 and glucocorticoids.
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About the programme
During the Latin American Studies Master's programme you will focus on key social, political, linguistic and cultural developments which are currently shaping the complex reality of Latin America.
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NWO grant Nadine Akkerman for Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered research
Nadine Akkerman and her co-applicant David van der Linden (University of Groningen) are thrilled that “Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered 2.0: Revealing Hidden Letters” was awarded an Internationalisation in the Humanities grant from NWO.
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Efficient and flexible platform to isolate and study bacteriophages
We aim to develop a microfluidic platform that can parallelize testing the performance and characteristics of pure, mixed and environmental bacteriophage samples.
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Environmental and metabolomic study of antibiotic production by actinomycetes
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel
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Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire
How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?
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Culture: text and images in Japan
One of the ways of understanding another culture better is to examine what people experience when they read a text, or look at an image. Leiden experts have a lot of knowledge in this field, for example on culture in ancient Japan.