682 search results for “colonial history” in the Student website
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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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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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. On 1 October, he will be appointed…
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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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.