University of Leiden:New Faculty of Humanities to have seven institutes
12 Sep 2008
On 1 September the Faculty of Humanities will be a fact. The former faculties of Religious Studies, Arts, Creative and Performing Arts and Philosophy will together form one new faculty.
The Board of Governors approved the formation of the new faculty on 14 July; the decision became effective on 15 July and the Executive Board appointed Professor Wim van den Doel as dean and Professor Arie Verhagen as vice-dean; Ms Eva Kooijmans (Art History student) will be the student member of the Faculty Board. The Graduate School for Humanities, in which all the research will be centred, will comprise seven institutes.
The seven research institutes are:
- Institute for Area Studies (regional studies of Asia and the Middle East)
- Academy for Creative and Performing Arts (previously the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts)
- Institute for Cultural Disciplines (literature, literary studies, film and media studies, art history)
- Institute for History (history)
- Institute for Linguistics (linguistics)
- Institute for Philosophy (previously the Faculty of Philosophy)
- Institute for Religious Studies (previously the Faculty of Religious Studies)
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