272 search results for “early modern english literature” in the Student website
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Amos van BaalenFaculty of Humanities
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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Jip BarreveldFaculteit Archeologie
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Faculty newsletter now also in English
Facility, Organisation
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Archaeologist Marie Soressi joins the discussion about the early use of bow-and-arrow technology in Europe
Nature News reported on the use of bow-and-arrow for hunting based on the research made on small points found in a 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France.
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty of Humanities
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der WeelFaculty of Humanities
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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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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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Children develop prejudice at an early age
Children in the Netherlands develop prejudices based on ethnicity at an early age. Ymke de Bruijn (27) came to this conclusion in her dissertation ‘Child Interethnic Prejudice in the Netherlands: Social Learning from Parents and Picture Books’. For her PhD project she took a closer look at the behaviours…
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Andries HiskesFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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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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Nina KomrijFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Elise Swart
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Visit the University of Helsinki for the Medieval-Modern Forum
Education
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Renee van RiessenFaculty of Humanities
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Rizal ShidiqFaculty of Humanities
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Esther van den Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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War and Peace Studies: New CSM track focusses on modern war, warfare and peace building efforts
War and peace studies. A topic that is more relevant than ever because of the war in Ukraine. In September, the MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM) will start a new track: War and Peace Studies. CSM’s Programme Director, Ernst Dijxhoorn, discusses the new track, how it was created and what students…
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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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.