499 search results for “colonial history” in the Staff website
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Philip Post
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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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
- Histories Connected
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities