71 search results for “empires and slavery” in the Student website
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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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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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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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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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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Lisa Ansems
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Klaas van Walraven
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in English
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in Dutch
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlon Kruizinga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sofia de Jong
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen Caminada
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Felicia Rosu
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Gieneke Teeuwen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Camille Lefebvre
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessie Pool
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gitta Veldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gert Oostindie
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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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Alette Jansen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Helen Pluut
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
- European Week Against Racism
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Maartje van der Woude
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law | Introductory Course for PPP-students
Research
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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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Koen Caminada appointed Dean of FGGA
The Executive Board has appointed Prof. Koen Caminada as Dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Caminada has served as interim dean since April of this year. His new appointment is from 1 September 2024 and is for a period of four years.