133 search results for “empires and slavery” in the Student website
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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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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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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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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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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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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare
The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s society? Before the markers are placed, a panel came together on 24 March to discuss the slavery past of not only the city but the University too.
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Roundtable on Slavery: From Scholarly Debates to Public Reckoning
Conference, Histories Connected: Faculty Roundtable
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Lisa Ansems
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Klaas van Walraven
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute (the research school for economic and social history in the Netherlands and Flanders)…
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in English
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in Dutch
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlon Kruizinga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Sofia de Jong
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen Caminada
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Daan Zunnenberg
Science
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Felicia Rosu
Faculty of Humanities
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Gieneke Teeuwen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Camille Lefebvre
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessie Pool
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gitta Veldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid