164 search results for “second world war” in the Student website
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Cleveringa lecture
Inaugural lecture
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden University during the Second World War
Event
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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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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Abhishek Avtans-
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Meyboom
Faculteit Archeologie
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Olga Nozdracheva
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Nivja de Jong
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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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Merlijn Veltman
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bouke van der Meer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roos van der Haer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Roderick Geerts
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bart Schuurman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Frans Osinga
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Alies Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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War in Ukraine: Universities call for support and solidarity for those affected
The Dutch universities are shocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and empathise with all those affected by this act of aggression. Leiden University also calls for solidarity with and support for all those affected by the war.
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Jin Hee Park
Faculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree Nam
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicky Schreuder
Faculteit Archeologie
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Suzan van de Velde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Silvia D'Amato
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
- War in Ukraine: one university website for help, action and questions
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Anneleen van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Eamon Aloyo
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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I-Hsien Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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