1,518 search results for “history of south africa” in the Staff website
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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Book Launch: Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
Book launch
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
In addition to texts in Arabic, the manuscript heritage of Islamic West Africa includes written attestations of local languages in Arabic script (Ajami). The Ajami writings range from brief explanatory glosses on didactic texts to historical accounts, religious and secular poems, and healing and talismanic…
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Designing a Digital History of the Lives and Afterlives of Chinese Material Infrastructures
Join us for our April LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Prof.dr. Hilde De Weerdt on Wednesday, 6 April 2022 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CEST). Professor De Weerdt will discuss the objectives and key aspects of two large projects on the social history and present-day uses of pre-twentieth-century material…
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students
Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming researchers will receive funding from the PhDs in Humanities programme. With the funding, NWO wants to boost the recruitment and advancement of young talent in…
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
This online conference explores forms and usages of slavery as represented in textual sources from the early Islamic empire, ca. 600-1000 CE. The conference’s focus is on the regionality of the development of slavery as an institution and the lived experience of slavery in this formative period of Islam.…
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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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Hyojin PakFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandra TutwilerFaculteit Archeologie
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Michael HerzfeldFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erika RiccobonFaculty of Humanities
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn MandersFaculteit Archeologie
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Nina JaspersFaculteit Archeologie
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Ivo SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Robert PittFaculty of Humanities
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Weixuan LiFaculty of Humanities
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Gina van LingFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and why messages were ciphered in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
The conference organizers would like to thank Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF), the Institute for History at Leiden University, and Brill Press for their generous funding that has made this international conference possible.
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…
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Jennifer SweridaFaculteit Archeologie
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
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Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Katharina NatterFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Turning the tide: global biodiversity research gets time and funding
How do you compare the living environment of Dutch dairy cows with that of Masai cattle in East Africa? And how can we reverse biodiversity loss? These questions are central to CurveBend, an international research consortium in which ecologist Michiel Veldhuis plays a key role.
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Leiden University receives Prime Minister's Award from Korea for Korea Studies program
Ambassador Hyoung Chan Choe of South Korea paid his first visit to Leiden University Nov. 22, where he was received by President Annetje Ottow and Professor of Korea Studies Remco Breuker.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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How the US used threats to influence foreign nuclear programs
The United States used threats to influence the nuclear programs of Iran, Libya and South Africa. How effective was this diplomatic coercion?
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Christopher Green in Calgary Sun about North Korea's friendly gesture
As South Korean president Moon Jae-in prepares to leave office, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked him for trying to improve relations. Assistant Professor Christopher Green explains in the Calgary Sun what impact North Korea's gesture of goodwill might have.
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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
In this talk, Jean-Louis van Gelder (Professor Criminology) discusses the potential of virtual reality (VR) technology for the study of crime and related behaviours. He explains how VR is uniquely suited to address problems that have traditionally plagued the field. More specifically, Jean-Louis…
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’
Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.
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Kristen De Joseph
Faculty of Humanities
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Annas RabbaniScience
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities