260 search results for “early modern english literatuur” in the Staff website
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Joanne Mouthaan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leonie Vreeke
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Enes Sütütemiz
Faculty of Humanities
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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The Moroccan Register of “Slaves” in the Early 18th Century: Enslavement, Blackness and Racial Binary
Lecture
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefan Landsberger
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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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Faculty newsletter now also in English
Facility, Organisation
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Grond-recht: vanuit literatuur en cultuur op zoek naar de bodem van juridische definities
Inaugural lecture
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Dinko Fabris appointed professor: 'Music must live'
Musicologist Dinko Fabris has been appointed professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). He started on 1 September. 'I’m looking forward to making a connection with society.'
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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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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Aad van Mastrigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award
Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He received this award for his innovative research into changes in the way scientists and philosophers define the nature and boundaries…
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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Early Career Award for Kaya Peerdeman
Last week, Kaya Peerdeman received the SIPS Early Career Award at the fourth international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies in Duisburg, Germany.
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy
Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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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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LUCAS Medieval and Early Modern Cluster Meeting
Lecture
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English breakfast met een Leids tintje
Medewerkers Annet van der Helm en Mijanou Blaauw in Glasgow
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This is the link to the English newsletter
Organisation
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Rafal Matuszewski awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership
Dr. Rafal Matuszewski, assistant professor at the ancient history department of the Institute for History, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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KNAW Early Career Awards for two Leiden researchers
Young Leiden researchers Alisa van de Haar and Marleen Kunneman have received a KNAW Early Career Award. The prize, awarded annually for outstanding achievements, consists of 15,000 euros and a unique work of art.
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Sarah Cramsey awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership
Dr. Sarah Cramsey, University Lecturer Judaism & Diaspora Studies, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the KNAW.
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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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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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Tamara Danilyuk wins the EUROTOX 2023 Early Career Award
I am thrilled to share the exciting news of being honored with the 2023 Early Career Award at the EUROTOX conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This recognition, presented by ECETOC (European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals) and dedicated to the memory of Dr. Christa Hennes, holds…
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Nina Komrij
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen