Ineke Sluiter - photo by Inge Hoogland
Ineke Sluiter FBA (PhD 1990) is Professor Greek at Leiden University. Her research focuses on ancient and medieval ideas on language, the rhetoric of public debate, ancient values, and processes of innovation in Greco-Roman antiquity (https://anchoringinnovation.nl). In addition, she explores cognitive approaches to classical literature. She is also the editor-in-chief of the new Greek-Dutch dictionary (https://woordenboekgrieks.nl).
Sluiter is the recipient of a Spinoza Award (2010), and the Prize Academy Professors (2016). She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. From 2018-2022 she was vice-President and then President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Some recent publications:
Corthals, B., and I. Sluiter, ‘Situated Cognition: Sophocles, Milgram, and the Disobedient Hero’, in: Budelmann, F.J. and I. Sluiter (eds.), Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition. Oxford 2023, 210-227.
Castelli, S., and I. Sluiter (eds.), Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early-Modern Periods. Ten case studies in Agency in Innovation. Leiden 2023 ( Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods – Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation | Brill)
Versluys, M.J., and I. Sluiter, ‘Anchoring: a historical perspective on frugal innovation’, in: Leliveld, A., S. Bhaduri, P. Knorringa, C. van Beers (eds.), Handbook on Frugal Innovation. Cheltenham, UK-Northampton, MA 2023, 28-42.
Sluiter, I., ‘Old is the new new; the rhetoric of anchoring innovation’, in: R.J.U. Boogaart, H. Jansen & M. van Leeuwen (eds.), The Language of Argumentation, New York-Springer 2020, ch. 13. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-52907-9_13.
