385 search results for “history of slavery” in the Student website
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jürgen Zangenberg
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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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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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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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
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Se Young Jang
Faculty of Humanities
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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Koen de Ceuster
Faculty of Humanities
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Cisca Hoogendijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Patrick Gouw
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Kai Hebel
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Aad van Mastrigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel Doortmont
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Maia Casna
Faculteit Archeologie
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Willem Zwalve
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Laurens van Apeldoorn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Thomas Maguire
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Faculty of Humanities
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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‘In Leiden you feel history is very close’
Leiden alumnus Makoto Yoshida from Japan studied Dutch history and politics from 1996 to 1997. Now he is back in Leiden with his wife who is currently a student at the Faculty of Humanities. Some things still surprise him. 'Everyone at university uses first names, which was - and still is - unacceptable…
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Designing a Digital History of the Lives and Afterlives of Chinese Material Infrastructures
Lecture
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.