21 search results for “postcolonialism” in the Staff website
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Marieke Bloembergen
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Ingrid Samset
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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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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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture
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‘Immigration doesn’t threaten welfare states’
It is often thought that immigration threatens the solidarity on which redistribution relies. But looking at the post-war period, PhD candidate Emily Anne Wolff finds that this is not the case.
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus. Biology, history and politics
Lecture
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[Cancelled until further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…