104 search results for “colonialism” in the Library website
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Cartographic Collections
In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…
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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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Maps and Atlases
The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.
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Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Collections
The UBL develop collections which support the needs of faculty and students of the University.
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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Palestine and Israel
This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.