294 search results for “history of slavery” in the Staff website
-
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…
-
A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
-
Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
-
Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
-
Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
-
Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
-
‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
-
researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
-
Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
-
Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
-
Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden
Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.
-
‘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…
-
Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
-
Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
-
Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
-
Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…
-
Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
-
Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
-
Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
-
Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
-
Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
-
Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
-
Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
-
Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
-
Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
-
Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
-
Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
-
Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
-
Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
-
Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
-
Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
-
Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
-
Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
-
Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
-
Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
-
Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
-
Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
-
John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
-
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.
-
Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
-
Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
-
Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
-
Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
-
Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
-
Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
-
Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
-
Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities