600 search results for “history of writing” in the Staff website
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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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Maarten JansenFaculteit Archeologie
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Oran KennedyFaculty of Humanities
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Gerhard-Jan NautaFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander GeurdsFaculteit Archeologie
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dirk AlkemadeFaculty of Humanities
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Gerhard de KokFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'MalleyFaculty of Humanities
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer
Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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'Writing a judgment is far easier than writing a dissertation'
Doing a PhD on the side? External PhD candidates, like Joost Van der Helm, just get on and ‘do it’. Besides his hectic job as a justice at the Court of Appeal in The Hague, Van der Helm managed to still find time to write a PhD dissertation.
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Peter KopICLON
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Julia FoudraineAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiayi XinFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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First edition of photo magazine Writing with Light Magazine OpenAccess available
Writing with Light Magazine. Issue no.1 is now available for download as a open access pdf/interactive edition or purchase as limited-run print edition. The magazine builds on our prior work with the journals Cultural Anthropology and Visual Anthropology Review and the editorial collective consists…
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Lucy OpokaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eefke de HaanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de ValkFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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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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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Writing coaches have started in our faculty
Education
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum