118 search results for “colonialism” in the Student website
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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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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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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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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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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The Colonial Era & Contemporary Indonesia
Lecture, Online
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlieke Ernst
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. On 1 October, he will be appointed…
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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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.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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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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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture