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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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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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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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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...
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer 09 August 2022Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outs...
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Valentine's Day - a reading list 14 February 2022Love. It makes people do the strangest things and at the same time it is a primary necessity of life. Over the centuries, writers and poets have fille...
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list 27 January 2022On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021....
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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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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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Populism: democracy under pressure – a reading list 03 February 2021The storming of the United States Capitol in January 2021 showed people disrupting democratic procedure in the name of ‘real democracy’. Both elected ...
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History of the Black Pete debate – a reading list 04 December 2020For years now, the debate around Black Pete in the Netherlands has been one of the most controversial topics in the public sphere. And the intensity o...
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UN World Philosophy Day - a reading list 18 November 2020Today is World Philosophy Day. We asked three staff members from the Leiden Institute for Philosophy to name three of their favourite works from the L...
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American Politics and the 2020 Presidential Elections - A Reading List 29 October 2020The United States seems to be embroiled in one of the most contentious electoral battles in its history. In fact, presidential elections have become e...
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Coming-out day – A reading list 11 October 2020In the past few decades, LGBTQ+ acceptance has come a long way. Coming out, however, is still a difficult experience for many people on a personal lev...