557 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Staff website
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Maia Casna
Faculteit Archeologie
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Willem Zwalve
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Laurens van Apeldoorn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Thomas Maguire
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Faculty of Humanities
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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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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Natalia Donner
Faculty of Humanities
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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In Memoriam: Prof.dr. Henk Bodewitz (1939-2022)
On August 18, 2022, Henk Bodewitz, distinguished Indologist and emeritus professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University, passed away in his hometown of Utrecht.
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Designing a Digital History of the Lives and Afterlives of Chinese Material Infrastructures
Lecture
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
Conference
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Lipsius Building
Northern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 001 of the Mathias de Vrieshof. Southern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 004 of the PN van Eyckhof.
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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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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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam appointed new academic director of the Institute for History
The Institute for History has a new academic director. Professor of Early Modern History Jeroen Duindam will take on this role from 1 September. ‘You can only do this job properly if you make time for it.’
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities