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Timo Slootweg, associate professor at he department Philosophy of Law, published a chapter about Paul Scholten in

The Summer School History of the Book, organized by the Allard Pierson Museum, introduces a new course in English: Introduction to the Archaeology of the Book, taught by Prof. Malcolm Walsby (2-6 September 2024).

Van 21 augustus tot en met 8 september zijn de workshops en cursus van de jaarlijkse Summer School on the History of the Book van het Allard Pierson en de vakgroep Boekwetenschap. Drie weken lang is er elke werkdag een cursus, workshop of lezing over thema’s die te maken hebben met de geschiedenis van…

Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga…

The Role and Effectiveness of the G20. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in The Changing Global Order onderdeel van the United Nations University Series on Regionalism book series, bespreekt auteur Jaroslaw Kantorowicz de evolutie van de G20.

The International Course on Water Use and Management in Cagayan Valley The Philippines (2011-2015)

De University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) heeft het boek ‘The Currency of Solidarity: Constitutional Transformation during the Euro Crisis’ van dr. Vestert Borger geshortlist voor de UACES Best Book Prize.

The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland. There is a number of slots for papers (20 minutes) and special sessions…

The volume Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600), edited by Anna Dlabačová (Leiden University), Andrea van Leerdam (Utrecht University), and John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast), explores approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe…

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

This conference explores how reading experiences were shaped both by producers and users of vernacular books. By adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective (combining book history, literary history, art history, religious studies, and history of knowledge) it aims to contribute to the…

As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate for the research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. This opportunity is funded by the administrative…

Het Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) onderzoekt beeldende kunsten, design, film, fotografie, digitale media en literatuur in de westerse wereld.

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

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Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

With Ad Putter, Sjoerd Levelt and Anne-Louise Avery. Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes…

Onder de gezamenlijke titel ‘Scarcity and the State’ verschenen onlangs twee Engelstalige boeken over de verdeling van schaarse publieke rechten (Intersentia 2016). Paul Adriaanse (UL), Frank van Ommeren (VU), Willemien den Ouden (UL) en Johan Wolswinkel (Tilburg University) voerden de redactie. Aan…

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

Aleydis Nissen geeft tekst en uitleg bij haar nieuwe boek 'The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights'.

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

Bij Cambridge University Press (CUP) verscheen onlangs van Ingrid Leijten het boek Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Het boek maakt onderdeel uit van de serie Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy en heeft als onderwerp de bescherming van sociaaleconomische rechten…

The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a postdoctoral Researcher (0.8 fte for 3 years) in the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER). Candidates are…

Governance and Global Affairs, Instituut Bestuurskunde

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Book launch

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As Leiden Law students, we are now in the digital age, 'where we believe law and technology should go together.' After all, for us, it is important to look beyond trodden paths of established legal knowledge. The books on law and case law surely will not be sufficient for the lawyer of the future. That…

Veel media-aandacht voor het nieuwe boek van hoogleraar Kenmerkevolutie en biodiversiteit Menno Schilthuizen. ‘Darwin comes to town - how the urban jungle drives evolution’ kwam in februari uit in het Engels en zal binnenkort ook in het Nederlands verschijnen.

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The Hague Journal of Diplomacy marks its 15th anniversary in 2020 with an award for the best article in the journal. The HJD Article Award is a biennial prize, like the Book Award that the ISGA-based journal will launch in 2021.

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Een groep Leidse rechtsfilosofen en rechtstheoretici, zoals Paul Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg en Bastiaan Rijpkema, is de laatste jaren steeds meer geïnteresseerd geraakt in de spanning tussen theoterrorisme (terrorisme gebaseerd op een godsbeeld, een vorm van “religieus geweld”) en vrijheid van expressi…

Hoe gaat de wereld eruitzien na de corona-crisis en komen er blijvende gevolgen voor ons, de maatschappij en de manier waarop wij naar de wereld kijken? Dat is de vraag die ‘Brave New Human - Reflections on the Invisible’ probeert te beantwoorden. Hoogleraar Art and Science Interactions Robert Zwijnenberg…

Een overzicht van tentoonstellingscatalogi en monografieën rond de Leidse Midden-Oosten collecties.

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Een stroom aan nieuwsberichten, pushmeldingen en zelfs extra nieuwsuitzendingen: de wereld werd woensdag opgeschrikt door de bestorming van het Capitool in Washington. Amerikanist Sara Polak reflecteert op de gebeurtenissen.

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