507 search results for “dutch colonial history” in the Student website
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Defilet
Faculteit Archeologie
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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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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Caroline Gräfin von Courten
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarja Seire
Faculty of Humanities
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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Meijers
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities