377 search results for “dutch history” in the Staff website
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Matthew Frear
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives?
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these MPs?
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)
Education
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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New Education Dashboard: easy access to essential teaching data (in Dutch)
Education
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Wanted: Dutch-speaking thinkers and doers for the National Think Tank 2024
Research
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)
Education
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)
Research
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Provisional negotiation settlement Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities 2023-2024
Organisation
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Wanted: Dutch speaking PhD candidates without stage fright for the Hoe?Zo! Show
Research
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Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more
When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that Dutch people are labelling events in increasingly broad contexts as violent.
- New Sectoral Scheme Covering Ancillary Activities at Dutch Universities for 2024 adopted
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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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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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to strengthen fundamental AI research.
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Wanted: Educational innovations for the Comenius Leadership Fellowship or Dutch Education Award
Education
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Educational innovations for the Comenius Leadership Fellowship and the Dutch Higher Education Award
Education
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Dutch state returns stolen artefacts: ‘Make sure to tell the full story’
The Netherlands returned 478 artefacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka this week, on the advice of a Dutch committee. Rightly so, says Leiden professor Pieter ter Keurs from the Museums, Collections and Society interdisciplinary research programme. ‘But do make it clear why you are returning something.’
- Student well-being: tell your (international and Dutch) students about the Winter Weeks
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your educational innovations for the Comenius Leadership Fellowship or Dutch Education Award 2025
Education
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Preliminary negotiation agreement Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities 2024-2025
Organisation
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Award Ceremony 2022. The LUC team was second behind Universteit Twente. The prize was awarded during the annual Comenius Festival of the Comenius Network.…
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Nouwen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Which MPs have Leiden roots?
Twenty-two of the 150 newly elected members of the Dutch House of Representatives studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research here. But who are they and which degrees are most popular?
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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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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Dutch Bio Science Week
Event
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Introduction to Dutch Research Funding
Information briefing
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance
On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staff of the University came together for this Hour of Remembrance.
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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