523 search results for “history of the contemporary middle east” in the Student website
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
- Forgotten heroes
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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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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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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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The registrations for the Europaeum Summer School 2024 have opened
Education
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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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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Toon Kerkhoff
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Weixuan Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Edelmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans-Jan van Kralingen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elsemieke Daalder
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram Eenink
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Matthijs Westera
Faculty of Humanities
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Alwin Kloekhorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Archaeology & Society
Changing the future, by understanding the past. Join Archaeology & Society and broaden your horizon!
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Contact with other students
Staying in contact with other students might not always be easy but it is very important. Find out about the different ways in which you can meet other students.