165 search results for “literature and poetry” in the Student website
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Call for art and poetry contributions: LEAP (Leiden Graduate Periodical of Culture and Society)
Education
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Georgios-Evgenios Douliakas
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram Caers
Faculty of Humanities
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Tingting Hui
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman
Faculty 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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Esther Edelmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Dorine Schellens
Faculty of Humanities
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Otto Boele
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Marie Guilleray-Guénanff
Faculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan van Dijkhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Joan Booth
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog
The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Inspired by Verwey’s poem ‘De zegger van verzen’, Krog’s lecture was a polyphonic and multilingual love letter to poetry.
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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Creativity for beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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English version podcast ‘Scandal and controversy in Russian literature’ launched
Following the success of the Dutch version, the podcast 'Scandal and Controversy in Russian Literature' is now also available in English. Senior University Lecturer Otto Boele guides listeners through eight infamous texts in this version.
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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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.’