623 search results for “colonial and global history” in the Student website
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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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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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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Simcha Jong Kon Chin
Science
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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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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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
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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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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
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Se Young Jang
Faculty of Humanities
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Internship: Assistant Programme Officer Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme
Organisation
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Maria Zisimopoulou
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen de Ceuster
Faculty of Humanities
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen