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• Links Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities

  Links to various Digital Humanities organizations and resources, mainly in English.

• Cultural Representations of Living Nature: Dynamics of Intermedial Recording in Text and Image (ca. 1550-1670) Research project

  This project investigates the transposition of natural historical material, knowledge and vision, between different media (collection, scientific drawing, academic texts, the visual arts and/or literature) – a transmission that happens in the borderline between the traditional, emblematic worldview…

• Symposia 2023-2024 Research School for Medieval Studies

• About Modern and Contemporary Studies

  The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates.

• Meet our staff English Literature and Culture (MA)

• PhD research Marije Groos News - 16 December 2014

  Marije Groos was a PhD researcher at the LUCAS. She completed her thesis on socio-political engagement in Dutch literary periodicals of the fifties. Her promoters are Yra van Dijk, professor of Modern Dutch Literature, and Ton Anbeek, emeritus professor of Modern Dutch Literature.

• Centre for Art, Literature and Law (CALL) Research project

  The center studies the many ways in which issues of law and justice are dealt with in art and literature with a focus on liminal issues and cases. These are issues and cases where law comes to the limits of what it is capable of dealing with and art and literature explore the implications of what is…

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  Erik-jan Zurcher Professor emeritus Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elpine de Boer University Lecturer Psychology of Religion

  Faculty of Humanities

• The figure of Orestes in Greek literature Research project

  This project will study the cultural meaning of the mythological figure of Orestes within the ancient Greek imagination, as it emerges from various literary sources from the archaic and classical periods.

• Shifting the compass Research output

  Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

• The spiritual Tolkien milieu : a study of fiction‐based religion Research output

  Markus Davidsen defended his thesis on 16 October 2014

• Shamanic Knowledge Research project

  Mazatec chants and ancient Mesoamerican pictography

• Events Platform for Postcolonial Readings

  You can find an overview of events organized by the Platform for Post-Colonial Readings below.

• Meet Literary Studies in Athens Event - 15 February 2020

  Conference, Meet us in your country

• Meet Literary Studies in Thessaloniki Event - 18 February 2020

  Conference, Meet us in your country

• Meet Literary Studies in Edinburgh Event - 25 February 2020

  Conference, Meet us in your country

• Studies in Armenian Etymology with Special Emphasis on Dialects and Culture Research output

  This dissertation provides an up to date description of the Indo European lexical stock of Armenian (ca. 500 entries) with systematic inclusion of unused data that are found in Armenian dialects.

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  Bareez Majid Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jonathan Stökl University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor of Assyriology

  Faculty of Humanities

• Rewriting Yusuf. A Philological and Intertextual Study of a Swahili Islamic Manuscript Poem Research output

  The present monograph, spanning a wide range of world and local literatures represents a high academic standard of both literary criticism and philological analysis. By demonstrating her expertise as an Africanist conversant with the Arabic canon, Raia reveals how the narrative of Joseph has been re-narrated…

• Form and Function in Greek Grammar. Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature Research output

  Form and Function in Greek Grammar. Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature is a new book, written by Albert Rijksbaron. Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly…

• Education Research School for Medieval Studies

  Course Program 2023-2024

• African Studies (BA)

  Africa is fascinating! In today’s globalised world, the continent plays an increasingly important role in international social and cultural developments. Would you like to explore the many sides of Africa and its impact on the rest of the world, while also learning one of its languages? Our African…

• Fulbright award for MA student Çağlar Köseoğlu News - 18 June 2014

  Çağlar Köseoğlu, MA student Literary Studies, has received the Fulbright Graduate Student Grant intended for students who want to study for a master’s degree or a PhD in the United States. He will do a one-year MA called Aesthetics and Politics at the California Institute of the Arts.

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  Jessica Roitman Strategic Advisor Research Policy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maarten Kossmann Professor of Berber Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michaël Opgenhaffen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Isabel Hoving Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Annelou van Gijn Professor emeritus Archaeological Material Culture and Artefact Studies

  Faculteit Archeologie

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  Gina van Ling Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anne Sytske Keijser Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad University Lecturer Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Webb University Lecturer Arabic Literature and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anoma van der Veere Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carina van den Hoven Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnold Mol PhD candidate / lecturer Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rieneke Sonnevelt PhD candidate/external

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bruno Braak Guest researcher

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Time and Identity in Indigenous Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies Research project

  This research hopes to contribute to social awareness of the consequences of colonialism for Indigenous Peoples, to the deconstruction of still existing colonial and discriminatory notions and to a better appreciation of Indigenous art and thought.

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Writing and Iconography of Western Oaxaca Research project

  Mexico, between 500 B.C. and A.D. 900

• Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 4:

• Collections Middle Eastern Library in Leiden

  The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.

• Islam and history Research Dossier: Islam and Society

  Understanding the history of Islam and Muslim societies sheds a clear light on the complex and changing social structures of the Middle East, including the current trouble spots whose effect spreads all the way to Western Europe.

• The Representation of Imperial Rule and the Classical World in Early Medieval England Research project

  In early medieval England, there was an interest in the history of the Roman Empire and kings adopted such imperial titles as 'imperator' or 'basileus'. How can we explain this interest and what functions did imperial ideas and the reception of the classical world serve in early medieval England?

• Justin Bennett Academy of Creative and Performing Arts

  Justin Bennett teaches in the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire (KC) in the Hague. He is also a member of Jubilee, a platform for artistic research and production in Brussels.

• Student life Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

  Your time at Leiden is about more than just studying. Some of your best experiences will stem from being a part of our lively and diverse student community, as well as from life in the beautiful city of Leiden.

• About the programme East Asian Studies (MA) (60EC)

  The one-year master's in East Asian Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master's in Asian Studies, offers focused study of either China, Japan or Korea.