794 search results for “colonial history” in the Staff website
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
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.
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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History Institute Council Meeting
Lecture
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Gräfin von Courten
Faculty of Humanities
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
- COGLOSS seminars 2020-2021
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…
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Maarja Seire
Faculty of Humanities
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The ethics of returning colonial photography
Is it ethical to freely redistribute photographs taken in colonial contexts, historically and today? Christoph Rippe, PhD-candidate Cultural Anthropology, suggests that people might not have been always fully aware of what happened to their photographs after they were taken. 'But nowadays, with the…
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities