326 search results for “art history” in the Staff website
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Quintijn Mauer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Frear
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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‘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…
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Beyond the Canvas: Exploring Art-Science Collaborations
Conference
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Tobias van der Wal
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Frits van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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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…
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Workshop Mastering the art of test question design
Didactics
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden 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?
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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…
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Chibuike Uche
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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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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Which MPs have Leiden roots?
Twenty-two of the 150 newly elected members of the Dutch House of Representatives studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research here. But who are they and which degrees are most popular?
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The Ritualisation of the Past. On the ‘Lesson of History’ for the Present
Inaugural lecture, Cleveringa Lecture
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Astonishing explorations at the Night of Discoveries
It was the Night of Discoveries on Saturday 16 September: a summer encounter between art and science. Leiden researchers from various disciplines inspired the public with their quest to understand our world.
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CSC-Leiden University Scholarship
PhD