346 search results for “modern nederlandse literature” in the Staff website
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
y.horsman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2777
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Hoe te leven, klassiek of modern?
PhD defence
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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WGA compensation benefit
If you were declared disabled for work on or prior to 1 January 2016, and you are the recipient of a wage-related WGA benefit, you may also be eligible for what is known as a WGA compensation benefit.
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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LUCAS Medieval and Early Modern Cluster Meeting
Lecture
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
s.g.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
j.w.buisman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1693
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2599
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5635
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Taiwanese Literature in Dutch: the Voice of the Translators
Lecture
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Catching Kairos? Imagining Alternative Futures in Eastern German Literature
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was supposed to have been written to shape children into perfect citizens. PhD student Aafke van Ewijk nuances this image. Children's book writers wanted to have…
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Who Became a Politician: A Portrait of Modern Japan
Lecture
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Lecture on the book The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Lecture
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
s.l.a.brandellero@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1447
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
n.van.helden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717
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Once upon a War: Truth and Subversion in Iranian War Literature
Lecture
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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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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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'Recurring time and its problems in Greek literature'
Lecture
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Modernity and the Darkness at the Heart of the Enlightenment: Racism
Lecture
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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2023: Who reads Martial’s epigrams? The gender gap in reading Roman literature
Lecture
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NICA is moving to Leiden
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amsterdam, has moved to the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult, even though it is precisely jokes that can encourage children to read more, notes PhD candidate Alice Morta.
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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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and rebirth: Acts of recovery in gender separatist feminist utopian literature
PhD defence
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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Archaeologist Tom Hazenberg seeks the frontiers of the Roman Empire
From Roman ships to the ‘Gordon’ cavalry mask. Alumnus Tom Hazenberg was involved in spectacular finds that put the Dutch frontiers of the Roman Empire on the map. His mission is to give heritage back to the people.
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Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Projects in Pre/Early Modern Japan Studies
Lecture
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religion did not(?) matter in the Balkans: confessionalization in early modern Southeastern Europe
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Tracing Shumi: Politics and Aesthetics in Modern Japanese Literary Discourse and Fiction
PhD defence
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Campus The Hague of Leiden University to discuss future developments in special operations and the escalating competition between great powers.