359 search results for “colonialism imperialism and heritage” in the Staff website
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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symposium ‘Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage’
Research
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Mara de Groot
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Succesful online conference: Imperial Artefacts
On January 28 and 29, 2021 the conference ‘Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property’ took place online. This first of its kind event at Leiden University was an interdisciplinary online conference and brought together (post-)colonial historians, legal historians, curators,…
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Monique van den Dries
Faculteit Archeologie
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Call for papers: Graduate workshop Making and Remaking Heritage in Global Context
Research
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miyuki Kerkhof
Honours Academy
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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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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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Una Europa webinar: Building Global Networks through Heritage
How can academics build global networks and why is this important? Join this webinar on 22 May at 12 noon CET to hear perspectives and experiences related to these questions from Una Europa, an alliance of 11 leading European research universities. Registration is not required - simply join the…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Lecture by 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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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities