12 search results for “colonialism” in the Staff website
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Herdenkingsjaar maakt zichtbaar hoe het slavernijverleden doorwerkt
Onderzoek naar ons koloniale en slavernijverleden, openhartige gesprekken bij een Keti Koti-tafel, tentoonstellingen, lezingen en podcasts die de link leggen tussen heden en verleden. Op vele manieren sloten medewerkers en studenten aan bij het landelijke Herdenkingsjaar Slavernijverleden. Hoe deden…
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…