93 search results for “modern rhetoric” in the Staff website
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium
Debate, Symposium
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Valerio Gentile
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and why messages were ciphered in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Alistair Kefford
Faculty of Humanities
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Nidesh Lawtoo
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Projects 2023-2024
In 2023-2024 seven (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their research team and put their best ideas into action.
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Public installation & meme battle on anti-Asian racism
Meme battle
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Masterclass Leadership: Shakespeare & Retorica
Leadership
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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With kind regards: 1 November 2022
Lecture