431 search results for “history of germany” in the Staff website
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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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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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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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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden
Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.
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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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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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Andrew Gawthorpe
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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Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Thomas Maguire
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Hakan Külcü
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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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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VVIK Lecture | Uncovering the Manuscript History of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita: Tracing and Reconstruction
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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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.
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
Conference
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
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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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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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Revolutionary Turmoil and Structural Change: Ethiopia's 1974 Turning Point in a Global Perspective
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities