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Our favourites for the summer - reading list 27 June 2023The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works a...
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections 13 June 2023Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collecti...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners (1st round) 12 June 2023With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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New DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship for Indonesian Special Collections 12 June 2023Every year, the DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programme offers three senior (postdoc) researchers affiliated with a state or private university in Indonesia...
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Now available: Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers 09 June 2023This practical guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all academic disciplines. The instruction...
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik 25 May 2023The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden Univer...
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje 15 May 2023Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Literary Leiden - the reading list 03 April 2023Leiden fulfills a special role in Dutch literature: as a setting for stories as well as a place of work and residence for leading authors. It is the c...
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New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides 29 March 2023The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This...
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list 23 March 2023While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...
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Inflation - a reading list 24 February 2023In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same yea...