750 search results for “urban history” in the Staff website
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Urban Studies students conduct practical research into the Humanities Campus: ‘It needs lots of green spaces and light’
Over the past few months, Urban Studies students have been helping to think about the realisation of the Humanities Campus. To test their knowledge in practice, the future urban specialists gave advice on several different aspects, including thermal energy storage and the new central campus building…
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Marieke Bloembergen
Faculty of Humanities
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…
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‘The complex puzzle of housing and urban development makes this work so fascinating’
Chris Suijker, since 1 July the new director of Real Estate, likes healthy and sustainable university buildings where you ‘get the feeling you’re right at the heart of society’. Her aim is to achieve the same effect with even more buildings.
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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