434 search results for “works s history” in the Library website
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New English translation of Huizinga’s Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
Leiden University Press presents a new now unabridged, richly illustrated edition of Huizinga's famous study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries.
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Minerva’s Metamorphoses An exhibition celebrating 444 Years of Leiden University
The exhibition Minerva’s Metamorphoses organized by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) celebrates the University’s fascinating history. The 444th anniversary of Leiden University will be highlighted by contemporary photographs and historical documents from UBL’s collections. The exhibition is on view…
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Huge interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents visited faculties in Leiden and The Hague to soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it would be to study at Leiden…
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Emmy Andriesse's captivating photographs now available in the public domain
Hundreds of beautiful and timeless photos by Emmy Andriesse, one of the most important Dutch photographers of the twentieth century, are now freely accessible for everyone and can be used for research, education or other purposes. Large parts of Andriesse's oeuvre are already available online via Digital…
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Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict (dated 1582) from the Ming dynasty period, at one time part of the former collection of well-known sinologist and author of detective-novels Robert van…
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New ‘university centre’ to be created in former Hudson’s Bay building in downtown The Hague
Leiden University, together with the Open University and Universities of the Netherlands, will take up residence in the Spui building at Grote Marktstraat 48-50/Spui 3 in downtown The Hague from 2025. The partners signed the leases on 7 November.
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Thalia LudenScience
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the last examples of a so-called pictographic script that can only be interpreted by Dongba priests, shamans, who have knowledge of the ancient Dongba cu…
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Looking back: New Year’s Event 2021, a year of sustainability and perspective
A live online New Year’s event on Tuesday 12 January marked the start of the New Year. Dean Joanne van der Leun toasted 2021 and as usual at this event, the annual Meijers prizes and thesis prizes were awarded.
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Meike de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Jaqueline Caniguan CaniguanFaculty of Humanities
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Lavinia ReitzScience
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Diah AngendariFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Zulfadhli NasutionFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Valentina AzzaràFaculteit Archeologie
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Nicolas TurnerFaculty of Humanities
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Anne van RongenScience
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Sophie VériterFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ye JiangFaculty of Humanities
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Jackie AshkinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gabriela SchäferScience
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Iris LangereisFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Romy DijklandScience
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Kauthar ParkerScience
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Philippa JohnsonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed AliFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PerlsteinFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Can WangScience
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Dutch research institutions and Elsevier initiate world’s first national Open Science partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
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Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…
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Camila Paz Espinoza ChaparroFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Myrthe VeenmanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ammar AllamiFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Meng LiScience
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Rik LettanyFaculteit Archeologie
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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David de BuisonjéFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium
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Katharina KrüsselmannFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculteit Archeologie