46 search results for “english literatuur” in the Staff website
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maria Sherwood-Smith
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.c.sherwood-smith@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4892
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Guidelines for writing in English
Leiden University has a style guide to ensure consistency across all of its publications. It also has a Terminology List with the preferred translations of terms used within Leiden University and the academic world.
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questions about the new podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur
Russian literature is awash with disputes, riots and intense political debates. In the new Dutch podcast Schandaal en Controverse in de Russische literatuur, senior lecturer Otto Boele and film maker and journalist Kay Mastenbroek discuss the most talked-about Russian books published in the past two…
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
p.liebregts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2160
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
w.tigges@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Colin Ewen
Faculty of Humanities
c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2148
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3949
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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number agreement in the species noun phrase in International Academic English
PhD defence
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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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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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.w.van.baalen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Grond-recht: vanuit literatuur en cultuur op zoek naar de bodem van juridische definities
Inaugural lecture
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
a.h.van.der.weel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Consult the new Translation Guide for English texts and translations
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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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44th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL44)
Conference, Symposium
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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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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest.
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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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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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
s.a.polak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2142
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A Tale in Two Tongues: Storytelling in Filipino and English
Arts and culture, A Tale in Two Tongues: The added value of multilingualism
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Medievalisms on the 19th-century English Stage
PhD defence
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Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme
PhD defence
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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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Pitfalls for Advanced Writers of Academic English & Word Order (Graduate School FSW)
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Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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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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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands: an ethnographic approach to loanwords & place names
PhD defence
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Pageantry as Public Diplomacy: Contested Receptions of English and French Dignitaries in the Netherlands, 1570s-1640s
Lecture, Research seminar 1000-1800
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Speaker Series: MacBERTh: A Historically Pre-Trained Language Model for English (1450-1950)
Lecture
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Writing Novels under the New Order
PhD defence
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Connecting conditionals: A Corpus-based Approach to Conditional Constructions in Dutch
PhD defence