311 search results for “history of slavery” in the Staff website
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Felicia Rosu
Faculty of Humanities
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Adam Fairclough
Faculty of Humanities
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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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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
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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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nadia Bouras
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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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marieke Bloembergen
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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Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram Caers
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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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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Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history
Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background of students and scientists, a new book about the Academy Building, and two new sculptures of female scientists, Ewine van Dishoek, Professor of Molecular…
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
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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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University history complete: Otterspeer presents fourth volume
At the Dies Natalis Willem Otterspeer, Professor Emeritus of University History, presented the fourth and final volume of Groepsportret met Dame, his series on the history of Leiden University. De 'Strategie van de Aanpassing' covers the period 1876-1975. Otterspeer talked about his book in a podcast…
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Diederik Smit
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