1,152 search results for “colonial and global history” in the Student website
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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What global cities are made of
Understanding what our buildings and cities are made of is an important step in making them more sustainable. Industrial ecologist Tomer Fishman (CML) has received an ERC Starting Grant to map the construction materials used in buildings in the Global South. 'Without the data, you can't formulate po…
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Information meeting Honours programme Governance and Global Affairs
Study information
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Information meeting Honours programme Governance and Global Affairs
Study information
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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applications: In Situ Graduate School: Textile and Dyes as Transnational, Global Knowledge (deadline: 15 April)
Research
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Johan Christensen for the Global Blog about experts in global governance
Recently, Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the FGGA, contributed to the commentary series on technocracy and democracy in global governance that is organised by the Global Governance Centre and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023.
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Research Team Globalizing Palliative Care complete
The project officially started in September 2020, but with the enrolment of PhD students Hanum Atikasari and Shajeela Shawkat the research team of the ERC project 'Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life' is compl…
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy
In her inaugural lecture Susanna Linberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming.
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Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar 2023
Conference, Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
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Fransiskus Widiyarso
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging”.
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Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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Leiden University 14th in global sustainability ranking
Leiden University has taken 14th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities.
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Oliver Taherzadeh
Science
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Jelena Belic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michael Sampson
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Madeleine Hosli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Raoel Nanhekhan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Xiaoyang Zhong
Science
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Joris Larik
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Joachim Koops
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew Hoye
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Yali Si
Science
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Stephen Harris
Faculty of Humanities
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Remus Dame
Science
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Jue Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Riccardo Mancinelli
Science
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Jonathan London
Faculty of Humanities