2,251 search results for “literature” in the Public website
-
Continuing your studies
If you want to follow a full academic programme, the next step after obtaining your bachelor’s is a master’s degree (MA) at a Dutch or international university. And there may be no better place for your further master’s study than Leiden University!
- English Language and Culture
-
Representative Bureaucracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
How and to what extent does AI affect citizen representation in public service delivery and state-citizen interactions?
-
About the programme
The master in Media Studies is a one-year programme with four specialisations. Each specialisation explores connections between the various media and examines both present-day and historical material.
-
Who gets what, when, and how? An analysis of stakeholder interests and conflicts in and around Big Science
Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…
-
Reevaluating Conceptions of Imperial Monetary Flow: New Methodologies and Frameworks
This project suggests a reconceptualisation of pre- and non-capitalist imperial monetary policy, arguing that the existing literature about imperial financial flows has unnecessarily privileged ideas of largesse and seemingly chaotic monetary distribution. Using the divergent cases of the Roman Empire…
-
Leadership Agency in UN Peace Operations
Tom Buitelaar assesses how 'agency' is addressed in peacekeeping studies and identifies gaps.
-
About the programme
The one-year (60 EC) master in Classics and Ancient Civilizations provides intensive and comprehensive training covering the entire range of present-day research on the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome and the Ancient Near East.
-
Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Landscape in Perspective: Representing, Constructing, and Questioning Identities
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
-
Watch, listen and read
Sources for those who want to familiarise themselves with the region.
-
Centre for Indigenous America Studies
The Centre for Indigenous America Studies (CIAS) at Leiden University is designed to coordinate and promote the teaching and research of Indigenous languages, literatures, cultures and cultural heritage.
-
Manioc roots
Prehistory of Amazonia seen from the kitchen
- Practical information
- Contact
- Contact
- Admission and Application
-
Barbarism: History of a fundamental European concept and its literary manifestations from the 18th century to the present
This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.
-
Towards a New Vision on Public Leadership
In their vision trajectory, the Office for the Senior Civil Service (in Dutch: Bureau Algemene Bestuursdienst) communicated its plan to renew its vision on public leadership. Over the course of 2021, the Leiden Leadership Centre contributed as a scientific partner to the substantiation of this visio…
-
Career prospects
The master’s programme in Media Studies provides you with an outstanding launch-pad for a professional role in the media. Our graduates are known for their combination of hands-on practical knowledge and a broad, critical and multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving.
-
Admission requirements
To be eligible for Arts, Literature and Media (research) at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
-
About the programme
This programme focuses on the ideas and practices of resistance and change in Latin America and the Caribbean. You will be able to specialise in one of three areas: Culture and identity; State-society relations; and Literature, arts and media.
-
Nicholas Vrousalis, 'Exploitation: A Primer'
Political scientist Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) reviews the recent literature on exploitation. He istinguishes between three main species of exploitation theory: (a) teleology-based (including harm and mutual benefit) accounts, (b) respect-based (including mere means, force, rights, and fairness)…
-
About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor Cultural Memory of War and Conflict.
-
German Language and Culture (BA)
Germany has an important position in Europe, both economically as well as politically and culturally. In the Bachelor's programme German Language and Culture you will dive into the rich language, history and literature of this influencial country and discover what it has to offer!
-
How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands
On the 14th of June, Yliana Rodriquez successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yliana on this achievement!
-
Understanding Questions
This project proposes an integrated and comparative study on the syntactic, semantic, prosodic and processing aspects of in-situ wh-questions, taking the Grammar-parser correspondence hypothesis (Phillips 1996, 2003) as a guiding principle.
-
Translating China: Henri Borel (1869-1933)
Audrey Heijns defended her thesis on 28 June 2016
-
Kemalism in the periphery: anti-veiling campaigns and state-society relations in 1930s Turkey
This dissertations studies state-society relations in 1930s Turkey, focusing on the anti-veiling campaigns in the mid-1930s and aiming to understand the ways in which the Kemalist policies were received, interpreted, negotiated, compromised and/or resisted by various actors in the provinces.
-
Politicization, bureaucratic closedness in personnel policy, and turnover intention
In this article, Kohei Suzuki examines how bureaucratic politicization and closedness are associated with the turnover intentions of bureaucrats in 36 countries.
-
The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations Institutions in the fight against torture
This article devises a framework to assess the degree to which human rights bodies provide duplicating or contradicting recommendations to States. Focusing on the case of torture, it creates an original database of recommendations delivered to 14 countries in the years 2012–2016. Results show that duplications…
-
Dialogue Among Cultures and Disciplines: Past, Present, and Future
Dialogue is a multi-dimensional communication mechanism whose processes can only be examined by means of an interdisciplinary approach.
-
Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.
-
Into the ether or the state? Legibility theory and the cryptocurrency markets
In this article, the authors explore why there is substantial cross-national variation in the level of regulatory clarity surrounding cryptocurrencies
-
They understand what it takes: teacher agency in universities
When does teacher agency occur in the university context, and how is this related to teaching?
-
The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis
The Layered Heart : Essays on Persian Poetry is published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed “our pre-eminent translator from Persian” by The Washington Post.
-
Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
- Meet our staff
-
Pre-master's programme
The pre-master's is a bridging programme for students who have applied for the MA Literary Studies but who, according to the Board of Admissions, still have deficiencies in their educational background. Once you have completed the pre-master’s programme, you will be admitted to the relevant specialization…
- Meet our staff
- Online catalogue
-
Media Studies (MA)
The MA Media Studies consists of four different programmes in the fields of Journalism and New Media (Dutch taught), Book and Digital Media Studies, Film and Photographic Studies and Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory.
-
Linking crises: Connections between climate change and COVID-19 during American, Canadian, Dutch, and Lithuanian national elections (2020-2021)
The aim of this research is to understand the linking of crises for the combination of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
About the programme
System Biomedicine and Pharmacology consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.
-
About the programme
BioTherapeutics consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.
-
About the programme
Drug Discovery and Safety consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.
-
Multimedia Research and documentation of African Oral Genres
The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.
- Career prospects
-
About the programme
This three-year programme offers you a unique chance to gain a specialised qualification in a rich, valuable area of knowledge, plus the freedom to tailor the programme to your own ambitions. And what better place to study than in Leiden, international centre of Dutch studies?
-
About the programme
During the Europe 1000-1800 programme you will learn from inspired academics. Find out more about the programme below.