563 search results for “early modern literature cultural” in the Student website
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Graduation ceremony master and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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Jip BarreveldFaculteit Archeologie
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
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Chris FlintermanFaculty of Humanities
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Graduation ceremony bachelor and master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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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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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty 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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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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Workplace and Community: the social and cultural processes of labour movements
Hari Nugroho explores the role of local dynamics in shaping Indonesian labour movements. By focusing on the micro-level, this research reveals how labour organisation strategies are influenced by individual actors' personal histories, their interactions, and the way in which they respond the local economic…
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Elmer VeldkampFaculty of Humanities
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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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.
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Nidesh LawtooFaculty 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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Master's student of Arts and Culture develops own exhibition: 'A very enriching experience'
Many students dread writing a thesis. Master’s student Laura Robustella's practice-based thesis shows that it is well worth the effort. She developed an art exhibition based on her master’s thesis.
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Zane Kripe
Science
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Fitri MurfiantiFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Joan BoothFaculty of Humanities
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Simay CetinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Verena LyFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Surya SuryadiFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty 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.’
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago
Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much further. A study by archaeologists at Leiden University on the use of fire shows that 400,000 years ago knowledge and skills must already have been exchanged…
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Celebrating Naga Culture: Authenticity, Indigeneity and Modernity
Lecture
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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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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Nina KomrijFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities