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New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska 21 October 2021Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden Universit...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list 08 October 2021The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and co...
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James Bond, the cultural phenomenon - a reading list 30 September 2021With the creation of James Bond, author Ian Fleming laid the foundation for a sprawling media franchise. Since the first novel appeared in 1953, Bond ...
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections 21 September 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This mak...
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Can you still trust the (Dutch) government? – a reading list 21 September 2021The democratic legal order can only function optimally if there is sufficient trust between citizens and government. Citizens must be able to trust th...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document 13 September 2021Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks - a reading list 10 September 2021On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoki...
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700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri: the UBL Dante collection 06 September 2021In September 1321, exactly 700 years ago, one of Italy's most famous writers, Dante Alighieri, died as a Florentine exile in Ravenna. That makes 2021 ...
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ICAS Book Prize awarded at the Asian Studies conference in Kyoto, Japan 24 August 2021The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) is one of the most prestigious book awards in the field of Asian Studies. The prizes were awarded in Kyoto, Japan at the 202...
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Online exhibition - Rembrandt and Leiden University 15 July 2021Rembrandt van Rijn is inextricably linked to the city of Leiden. He was born and raised here, went to school in the city, and spent the early years of...
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Reading list - our favourites for the summer 13 July 2021The 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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New in the Leiden collections: the Amsterdam Yemen Library 30 June 2021The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been enriched with the Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, or Amsterdam Yemen Library. This ...
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections 10 June 2021Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens ...
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a reading list 08 June 2021Tensions between Israel and Palestine again reached fever pitch in May, with hundreds of – mainly Palestinian – deaths as a result. Now that a ceasefi...
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Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo 19 May 2021The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director...